The eighteen months of our Land Rover restoration project brought us into contact with many people who in their own…
Category Archives: 1. Planning: What Every Project Needs
I spent a few months on this part, none of it wasted time.
Finishing the Interior: Cargo Bay Storage
With the receipt of our shipment from South Africa last week there is suddenly a lot to do.  Among the…
Planning the Outfitting Stage
This is the first post in the Expedition/Outfitting category of the West African Wander blog, one year after we first…
Sound Reduction Puzzle
In the process of perusing the seemingly endless Land Rover restoration sites we could see that (so-called) “soundproofing” was a…
Getting Ready to Paint 2: Picking a Sprayer
Getting my 15-year old Land Rover Defender painted is proving to be full of challenges, one of them is identifying…
Demoblization
Almost two years ago when this blog was started just before we purchased the beat-up 15+ year old Land Rover…
A Woodstock for Landy Lovers
Who ever heard of such a thing as a Land Rover Festival? But there it was, featured on the sheet…
Getting Ready to Paint 4: Almost There
I have never had a vehicle completely painted before and the fact this is a 15-year old fixer-upper truck places…
Phase I Electrical
Why more than one phase of electrical? Because I want to focus first on the basic things every vehicle requires…
Getting Ready to Paint 1 Picking a Colour
Defenders are basically trucks and usually coloured appropriately truckish. Maybe it is the military origins honed by years of utilitarian…