Old Landys Rule
THE Land Rover newsletter about a geriatric Land Rover Series III called Dorothy and her stablemates
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The “Great British Roof Tent show”?
Last weekend saw the arrival of “The Great British Land Rover Show” at Stoneleigh’s National Agricultural and Exhibition Centre (near Coventry). It’s been a while since we went for a wander around a Landy show so I booked a couple of tickets for Dick and myself. Lucky (my D2) appreciated the blast up the M69…
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Discovery 2 driving light hack
Nothing wrong with my driving. It’s everyone else. Words I’ve uttered a few times since relocating to the Midlands. There must be an epidemic of colour blindness because red lights no longer mean ‘stop’. They mean ‘proceed at full speed if you think you can get away with it’. And the number of cars spotted…
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More new brakes
Not the ideal day to be crawling around under an old Landy. But is there ever an ‘ideal’ day to be doing such stuff? After last weeks discovery of a new leaking brake pipe – while fixing another newly fitted, but leaking, brake pipe – sorting this was always going to trump an ideal day.…
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New brakes broke
Some good news, some bad. In case you didn’t know, I’d had to replace one of the brakes pipes on Lucky (my Discovery 2), from front to rear. I was sat at a set of lights, on my way to work, foot on the brakes – as you do – when the pedal went… ‘pffft’…
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Leaky Lucky no. 3
Another day, another leak. This time, however, it’s been sorted. And it’s not what I originally thought it was. To be fair, it wasn’t so much letting water in as letting the outside air rushing in. Summer time wasn’t so much of a problem, because it was warm. The only real pain in the backside…
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Yep. That needs cleaning…
Back around 2005, I got a 3.5 V8 Discovery 1. I had it LPG converted (in Poland) because, even back then, around 12mpg was sucking the bank account dry quicker than a family holiday at Disneyland Paris. But I liked the motor. Apart from it’s little niggles. (uh, Land Rovers?!) The LPG conversion had the…
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Ze nicest ol’ Bill you’ll ever meet
I want to share some photos today of an encounter we had with the Police in Germany. I’ve previously mentioned the Speedy Gonzalez nature of Dorothy, charging downhill, in Germany, at 83mph. I’ve also mentioned that she didn’t much like it – throwing a tantrum a few miles down the road. And by ‘tantrum’ I…
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OLR OG corrects junior
I’ve never pretended to be an expert on old Land Rovers. Or new. I’m just a guy who’s muddling through owning an old Landy. I may have always fixed my own cars, but I don’t always get it right. Most of the time it’s completely harmless. Other times, not so much. Like the time I…