A short wheel base Series Land Rover does not have an impressive range. It left Solihull with a 10 imperial gallon (45,5 litre) fuel tank underneath the right front seat, and with a conservative 7km/litre fuel economy it can travel a mere 318.5 kilometres before it needs to visit a petrol station. That is 500 … Read more
What batteries do you get for your Series Land Rover? Land Rovers original part is a 58 Ah battery for 4 and 6 cylindre petrol engines, and 95 Ah for diesel engined models. 58 Amp hour batteries might be fine for a bone stock landy, but if you have fitted (or have plans of fitting) … Read more
The original Land Rover dynamo is (as the original battery) fine in an original Series vehicle, but if you add upgrades like a stereo with an amplifier, axillary lights or a winch you will probably want something that’s more powerful.I can understand that a lot of Landy owners experience that the lights flicker when idling … Read more
Born with 600-16 cross-ply tyres on 5×16 tubeless steel rims. The 6.00-16 tyres are hard to find nowadays, unless you want front tyres for a historic tractor with wierd ribs. The tyresize translates to the non existing 152/100-R16 and has a diameter of 710mm, width and hight are both 152mm. Circumference is 2230 mm and … Read more
Original rims The Series IIa came with several different rim sizes. Most SWB models came with the 5 inch steel rim (Part number 239601), and LWB models with a 5,5 inch rim (Part number 272309). The colour was always Land Rover LRC.007 Limestone. Series III’s got a new rim, with a pressed ring for extra … Read more
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
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