Land Rover Monthly

IF you’re looking for something to pass the time get yourself onto facebook.com/UKbarnfinds, where there’s often interesting stuff. Case in point is this very rare Range Rover Carmichael six-wheeler conversion. Described as needing a full restoration

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Find us on @LRMonthly @land_rover_monthly LandRoverMonthly @Landrovermonthly HOW many standard Discovery 2s do you see on the roads these days? Very few. The first Land Rover trip I ever did as a journalist was in a standard D2 to the coast of Mozamb

WHAT’S your ultimate convertible? How about a Defender 90 – wouldn’t that be a cool way to feel the wind through your hair and, uh, the scratches on your head? Perhaps it’s better suited to a day at the beach than greenlaning? After all, you’re not g

A classic Land Rover converted into a fire engine came out on top to win the coveted Best of Boxing Day trophy at the Lakeland Motor Museum’s Classic Drive and Ride In Day. With around 150 vehicles in attendance – it was an impressive accolade to say

A question I am frequently asked: which is the better engine for a diesel conversion, 200Tdi or 300Tdi? There are a few myths floating around, the most common of which is that the 300Tdi is larger and more powerful than the 200Tdi. Untrue: they share

2022 is going to be the year that I get my Series III Lightweight on the road. I say that every year: the poor old thing has sat in a barn on four flat tyres since I bought it in 2006, and it had been stored in a shipping container for 15 years befor

WHEN you think of a base vechicle to use for regular off-roading, our in-built compasses point to one vehicle: the Defender. Produced for decades, easy to work on at home, and with famous images of cars in the jungle ever present in our minds, it mak

MOST of my greenlaning experiences in the UK have been in places such as Wales, Yorkshire, the Lake District or the Peak District. All of them great locations in their own right. I have done some lanes local to me (see landrovermonthly. co.uk/article

ANY years ago we impulsively bought a relatively cheap early 1980s Range Rover for its superb rumbling exhaust note. Unfortunately, that glorious soundtrack was accompanied by a stump-toothed, drooling gearbox and 20 years of DIY auto-electrical pove

I love it when I hear that an interesting old Land Rover has been found. Not that any of them are really lost, of course, so perhaps it’s better to describe them as mislaid. Or maybe they’ve just dropped out of sight? You can dedicate half your life

UNLESS you suffer from crippling amnesia or have been stuck beneath a Land Rover for the last 18 months, chances are you’re familiar with the registration JUE 477 and the man behind its restoration, Julian Shoolheifer. It’s fair to say that the limel

in the Dakar Rally paddock in Saudi Arabia where you have just finished competing in your fifth Dakar. It is January 2021 and for the first time the event has run a Classic category and your fellow Czechoslovakian countrymen is inspired by a Skodatak

EPORTING during the nine-month battle against the Islamic State (ISIS) in Mosul, I wrote several columns about the Land Rovers I encountered. These included an ISIS Defender 110 the Iraqi Special Forces had seized and repurposed – easy since their ve

Year: 1998 Mileage: 310,000km Power: 193bhp Torque: 206lb-ft MPG: 20 Awise lady once said to me that the greatest gift you can give a charity is your time. Charities do need cash donations to do their much-needed work, but if you have the time, skill

I recall uttering the words to myself at the end of another 100-plus-mile daily commute in my faithful 1964 Series IIA: “There is absolutely no reason why I would ever get rid of this Land Rover.” A week later, and it was towing a trailer along the M

I think I have found the most Land Rover-friendly place in the world. And the place is easily accessible by road directly from England. It’s called Wales. My recent few days off took me and my wife Louise to the Welsh coast, and as we had opted to ta

PROJECT DEFENDER Td5 PART ONE Time: Around 2 hours. Cost: £0. Difficulty: Models: Defender, Ninety/OneTen. Tools needed: Hammer, screwdriver, vehicle lift. Parts used: None required at this stage. • Make sure the raised vehicle is stable before and d

OVER my years of owning and driving various Land Rover Discovery 2 models, I have had an on-off relationship with roof racks. On my first Td5 Discovery 2, I had an aluminium roof rack manufactured and fitted by Patriot Products Ltd (Patriot Roof Rack

Time: 4 hours. Difficulty: . Models: 2.7 TDV6 Discovery 3 and Range Rover Sport 1. Tools needed: Socket set, spanners, oil filter grips, screwdriver, seal pick, brake fluid tester, coolant tester, rags, torch, water pump pliers, pry bar, brush and an

THE Land Rover parts scene is ever changing, and always for the better. LRM recently visited family firm, YRM Metal Solutions in County Durham, having heard that the business not only supplies some obscure repair panels for utility Land Rovers, but a

TRADITIONALLY an RTV event (for road-taxed Land Rovers), the Day-into-Night trial hosted by the Essex Land Rover Club has now grown to include CCV (Cross Country Vehicles) and Tyro (novices) vehicles as well, allowing more club members to compete. Al

APRIL ISSUE ON SALE 2 MAR Or download and read the digital issue from Mon 28 Feb bit.ly/lrmpocketmags Our Editor drives an old Defender around central London without having to pay the Congestions Charge. Why? Because it is fully electric. Most people