I attended the local regional branch of the Danish Land Rover Club today, for the first time since moving back to Zealand. They held their yearly general assembly, and I thought it would be a good time to meet up with them. Our local driving instructor, noticed my low DLRK member number, and came over … Read more
It’s great to hear the first sign of life as that starter whirls when activating Laura’s starter button. While living in our temporary rented house, Laura has been stowed away in the houses tiny garage.Nice and dry for storage, but with about 20 cm to any side, far too small to do anything serious work. … Read more
Will the cars of today ever become classic cars?Of cause they can be parked in a museum, but will they be drivable? Laura turned 60 years old this year, and the biggest threat to her being drivable in the future is the phasing out of fossil fuel cars. Who knows what petrol will cost in … Read more
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
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