Before Brexit I bought most of my spare parts, tools and gizmo’s in UK, but after Brexit this all became a lot more difficult and expensive. Today I have to source as much as possible in EU countries on the other side of the English channel, and I must admit my German is a lot … Read more
Where do you buy a “ready to go” converted Land Rover? There are a few companies that renovate Land Rovers and convert them to electric drive, if you think doing it yourself is to big a task. Australia Jaunt Motors convert Series Land Rovers between 1958 and 1985 in Australia Car site The Driven has … Read more
When I bought Laura in the 1990’s a normal conversion was shoehorning a 3,5 litre Rover V8 into a Series Land Rover. Now where everybody is trying to leave a smaller environmental footprint, and the fuel prices have risen dramatically, focus on conversions have changed to electric engines instead. Why convert a classic car to … Read more
Besides the companies that make a living by converting old Land Rovers, there are a lot of private individuals that have converted their own. If considering to build your own, there is a lot of knowledge and inspiration in the projects below. Series III’s Jeff G’s Lightweight Jeff has documented his project very well on … Read more
So while Laura was temporarily parked at another Land Rover fanatics home, somebody got the idea that the winch and bucket seats would look better on his car than on Laura. While nobody was watching, the winch was removed, and an unsuccessful attempt was done on removing the two bucket seats.Somehow the seats were damaged … Read more
We have left the beautiful island of Bornholm, and Laura was the first to take the 250 km trip west to the western coast of Zealand. Her new garage might be a lot smaller than the last one, but it’s next to the furnace room, free of frost, bone dry, and has a nice concrete … Read more
One of the greatest things about Series Land Rovers, is that they are as simple as anything can get. However this does not apply to the handbrake. The system might be less complicated on a RHD model, but on a LHD model, the handbrake leaver is mounted on the left side, and has to activate … Read more
Denmark has not produced cars in large numbers for decades, and the last few cars we built were more Robin Reliant than Land Rover. Kewet and City-El to name a few. The Hope Whisper was given up after a disastrous 1983 presentation and even though Zenvo got over it’s disastrous 5 minutes of Top Gear … Read more
The simple ladder chassis construction of a Series Land Rover lets you do almost anything. And the boxy design gives you lots of room in the engine bay, gives you a long list of possible Land Rover engine conversions. Upgrades to original engines 200Di The 2,5 litre 200 TDi was the last engine without electronics.Removing … Read more
Laura is from way before the Cigar lighter plug was invented, but she did have a pair of 12V “Dash power sockets”, in form of two 1/8th inch “Wander plugs” in the dashboard. One for plus and one for minus. Since I didn’t have any equipment I could use in these plugs, I repurposed them … Read more