One of the worst things you can call a Land Rover owners pride and joy, is “Jeep”, and there are countless stickers and memes about the theme. In the Land Rover community, Jeeps are often called “Beeps“, even though the original Land Rover prototype actually was built on a WWII surplus Jeep chassis. In an … Read more
Laura has a little hidden mystery under her bonnet, that hints to a past paintjob with a Mercedes shade. Paint code Daimler-Benz Standardgruen DB6277. I’m rather curious to what has been painted, as I haven’t discovered any colour differences in her paint.I’d also like to know how close is DB6277 to LRC.005 Finding more information … Read more
I attended the local regional branch of the Danish Land Rover Club today, for the first time since moving back to Zealand. They held their yearly general assembly, and I thought it would be a good time to meet up with them. Our local driving instructor, noticed my low DLRK member number, and came over … Read more
It’s great to hear the first sign of life as that starter whirls when activating Laura’s starter button. While living in our temporary rented house, Laura has been stowed away in the houses tiny garage.Nice and dry for storage, but with about 20 cm to any side, far too small to do anything serious work. … 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
So while Laura was temporarily parked at another Land Rover fanatics home, somebody got the idea that the winch and bucket seats would look better on his car than on Laura. While nobody was watching, the winch was removed, and an unsuccessful attempt was done on removing the two bucket seats.Somehow the seats were damaged … Read more
We have left the beautiful island of Bornholm, and Laura was the first to take the 250 km trip west to the western coast of Zealand. Her new garage might be a lot smaller than the last one, but it’s next to the furnace room, free of frost, bone dry, and has a nice concrete … 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
I actually got it loose yesterday evening, but it was too heavy to handle without help, so I had to wait until someone could give me a hand with lifting it off. Now I’ll have to get the roll cage off, before I can lift the roof over the car and out the garage door. … Read more