A short walk around, before I washed her.As you can see it’s needed after being parked under a tree for half a decade. In Denmark, green is the standard colour for a Series Land Rover, but they were never meant to be THIS green. Next step will be dismantling her, so I can get to … Read more
At last Laura is home again. Back after spending 17 years in exile. Greener than a Land Rover usually is, and needing a few buckets of soapy water, but in far better shape than I had been hoping for. I’ve been turning the engine every time I visited her in storage, so I knew that … Read more
I got the last signs up last weekend, and today I got the last stuff dragged out, so now Laura can return home. Looking so much forward to seeing her parked in here, and getting down to giving her some of the attention she needs. I considered building a maintenance pit, but unfortunately the table … 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
Back when I bought Laura in the very early 1990’s, had a need for more information, than the gauges could give me. She left the factory with the two standard gauges, and four warning lights: I didn’t feel comfortable pulling a heavy horsebox or driving off-road without at least a temperature gauge and an oil … Read more
The first long trip I took with Laura, was bringing her home.23/12 we drove from the northwest to the west coast of Denmark in a blizzard, to take the ferry to England. The roof was not mounted, so I had to move my head towards the centre of the car every time I passed a … Read more