Old Landys Rule
THE Land Rover newsletter about a geriatric Land Rover Series III called Dorothy and her stablemates
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Video Sunday: Another Dorothy?
If you’d have asked me what name my Land Rover Series 3 would adopt, I doubt that ‘Dorothy’ would’ve been high on the list. It’s not the sort of name you’d expect for a near-50 year old diesel-chugging Land Rover. But somehow she assumed ‘Dorothy’ and it’s stuck ever since. Aside: she’s actually named after
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Show a little love to your four-wheeled mistress
It’s that one day of the year my postie hates me. I watch them struggling up the drive, sacks of post slung over each shoulder, as I’m chewing on my weetabix and slurping a steaming mug of coffee. It takes a few hours to go through all the love letters dumped through my letterbox. The
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Video Sunday: Snowy play-day in Norway
As summer’s poking it’s head around the corner, and the temperature’s creeping up, a spot of fair-weather green laning’s on the horizon. It’s not that we don’t like playing in the dirt and mud, it’s just we prefer sunshine, shorts and warm evenings. That said, if you’re anything like us, if it dumps the white
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Overland tips from The Impossible
Once the Landy bug bites, you’ll find them popping up in life more often than you might think. You’ll spot them on the roads. “Ooh, nice classic Rangie.” You’ll spot them on TV programs. “Ooh look, Rosemary and Thyme drive a Series 3. Nice.” And you’ll probably find yourself talking about them to anyone who’ll
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Face it, it’s an old Land Rover
I dunno about you, but as I get older and cars start getting newer, I dream more and more about the cars I USED to have. The old cars. The cars you could fix with a fag paper and gaffer tape. Cars that you didn’t need a computing degree to work on. For example… The
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Video Sunday: Tips from Tasmania
Welcome to another ‘Video Sunday’. Not sure how I’d feel about having go through one of the things they talk about in this video. While I kinda yearn a spot of “the good ol’ days” before we all had GPS and our heads buried in mobile phones (I drive a Series, I love ‘ATA’ –
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Video Sunday: Lazy Summer Eves
Summer’s almost here… The nights are getting longer, the days warmer, and lazy summer eves meandering around lanes in our Landys are drawing ever closer. Ok, its still freezing outside, the weather’s still miserable, and we’re not breaking out the canvas roofs just yet. But that doesn’t mean we can’t get lost dreaming of those
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Camel Trophy Years Old
Let’s talk being old Some embrace it. Others shrink at the thought of adding another 12 months onto their ‘time on this giant rock’. Bit like those who’ve got that ‘January Jones look’ on their dating profile, but Hulk Hogan turns up for your first date. Me? I embrace it. The older I get, the
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Video Sunday: Norway checking your pulse
Welcome to the first Old Landys Rule ‘Video Sunday’. Each week I’ll share a video I’ve discovered to get your Landy juices flowing. This weeks video comes from Norway. The land of trolls, brown cheese, and some of the most magnificent scenery on the planet. At over 50 minutes long, it’s not teabreak viewing. But
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Time to get rid of all that tut?
The curse of the Land Rover nut is a tough one to own. We’re not like other ‘car’ owners. Not quite. We can stand around for hours chatting spare parts, green lanes, the best places to get your fuel, and how difficult it was to [insert your nightmare job here]. And one of the other