Holbæk Motor Service invited us up to their dream of a workshop, to show us what they do, and some nice old engines they were working on. Inside the workshop had a row of engines that were getting a thorough overhaul. The most interesting were a Chevrolet Camaro, a Smart ForTwo Brabus Cabriolet and an … Read more
The Danish Land Rover Club (Dansk Land Rover Klub / DLRK ) has some great courses. There is the “Green Certificate“, that any member has to acquire in order to participate in any off-road event, held by the club. A few years ago, I participated in the local DLRK Region Bornholm’s two day course, on … 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
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
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
Back in the good old days, before aerodynamic wraparound clustered headlights with 3D LED arrays, you were handed a pack of stickers for your headlights before travelling to or from the UK. When applied correctly, these stickers blocked the part of the beam that would blind oncoming traffic, when driving in the opposite side of … Read more
Today the site got a long needed facelift, and was moved to a new web host. This page is primarily meant to document the adventures of Laura the Land Rover SIIa, but thoughts about Land Rover and classic car ownership in general will occur as well. I’m a second generation Series IIa fan.One of my … Read more