It has now been a year since we took delivery of the an old Land Rover Defender in very poor…
Tag Archives: 4×4
Queen Victoria’s Carriage Steps
All 4x4s have plenty of ground clearance, in our case there is 18″ between the bottom of the front door and…
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…
Finishing the Interior: Soundproofing
What with all the body work and painting of the past six months most of the interior and exterior…
Restoration of the Seats
When we bought the Defender in February last year the original seats were in a pretty sorry state.  The…
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…