When we bought the Defender in February last year the original seats were in a pretty sorry state.  The…
Yearly Archives: 2011
Still Getting Ready to Paint…..
So we finally delivered the Defender to Bernard at Sikkens (Kolours) for painting on November 19, complete with the roof…
Getting Ready to Paint 3, Francis the Fixer and the underbody
When I bought this Defender almost nine months ago I remember crawling underneath it in the yard to see what…
Phase I Electrical
Why more than one phase of electrical? Because I want to focus first on the basic things every vehicle requires…
Ghana Customs Shock
To date, apart from a few things procured locally, the primary source of parts to rebuild our 1995 Landrover Defender…
Painted at Last – What a Great Looking Water Delivery Van
We got the Defender back on Saturday, painted at last. The colour is exactly what we wanted. …
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…
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…
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…