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
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
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