Land Rover Series
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Land Rover Videos
70 years on, watch Dorothy’s emotional Land Rover reunion
A new video has been released by Land Rover. It features 87 year-old Dorothy Peters who enjoyed a literal drive down memory lane when Land Rover took her off-roading in one of the earliest Land Rovers in existence. Fulfilling a lifelong dream, the retired employee…
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Land Rover Defender
Land Rover Defender: The beginning of the end…
Defender production ends in Decemeber 2015, and Land Rover have gone back to the place where it all began to start a year-long celebration of the iconic Defender. A unique 1km sand drawing at Red Wharf Bay in Anglesey, UK, marks the launch of three…
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Land Rover Series
Video: Traction Engines pulling a Series Land Rover
This video is from the Torbay Steam Fair a few weeks ago. The 2 traction engines are 6 inch scale versions (half size) and it just goes to show how much power the smaller versions can produce. Further up the hill, which I didn't manage…
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Land Rover Series
Land Rovers at the Yesterdays Farming show!
Had a trip up to Somerset over the weekend to visit the Yesterdays Farming show near Crewkerne. The Land Rover Series One club had but on a great display of old Landys, so it was rude not to take a load of photos and put…
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Land Rover Driving
Steam powered Land Rover video
Love steam trains? Would you like your Land Rover to be steam powered too? Well now you can, as the guy has built a steam engined Land Rover. According to the Youtube page, it is a three cylinder, double acting steam engine. Monotube boiler fired…
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Land Rover Series
1956 Land Rover First Overland Movie
With the Adventure Overland show kicking off this weekend at Stratford Racecourse, what better way to get in the mood for some adventure than to watch one of the first overlanding movies shot in 1956. Its only a short film, following a Land Rover expedition…
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How To
How to top up the diff oil on a Land Rover
Being a bit bored the other day, I would thought I would check out the diff oil levels (as you do!) on the Land Rover 110. Its a simple job that takes 5-10 minutes, so I thought it would make a good blog post, so…
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How To
How to filter vegetable oil for use as fuel
I have wrote an article before about using waste vegetable oil as fuel on a small scale before, but now that I have a Land Rover that has a vegetable oil conversion, I have had to up scale my processing capability as I can now…
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How To
Photos: Roller painting the Land Rover Series 2
My Land Rover series 2 was in dire need of a fresh coat of paint. It was currently residing in a faded nato green which had been painted on top of marine blue. So back in April this year, I took a few days to…
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How To
How to change the hydraulic brake light switch on a Land Rover Series 2
I was alerted to my lack of brake lights by my sister a few days ago. I knew they used to work as I towed a trailer a week or two ago for my father, and I checked they were working then, but sometime in-between,…
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