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Series Land Rover Auxilliary Dash Panel Kit

kevin — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 13:01:16 +0000

Made by www.classiclandrover.co.uk these panels are a great solution for adding extra dials to any Series Land Rover interior – the makers supply a range of fittings and shapes for all Series vehicles. The new LRE 109 Series III truck cab badly needed tidying up inside, as previous owners had added more dials and wires were everywhere. The panels proved very easy to fit, with clear instructions and are beautifully finished, once installed they looked like OEM parts – with a really original look, they fitted in ingeniously using the original wings from the centre unit, to create this very useful centre dash console. Here’s how they went in and the finished result.

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The new LRE 109 Truck Cab Series III standing in the sunshine.

Land Rover wings make a working flat surface as always...

The panel kit comes nicely packaged in bubble wrap with full instructions.

The starting point. This centre console is about to be replaced by the new kit.

Removing the dials.

Unscrewing the existing console which supports only a couple of cigar lighter sockets.

Removing the centre piece

This shows where the two wings are joined, and where the new panel kits integrates.

removing random bits of old dash architecture...

the shiny new panels are out of the bag...

Fitting the back plate.

Then the new front plate fits to the two side wings of the original Land Rover centre console.

Creating this fantastic fitment with four new spaces for dials and sockets, all facing forward, and nice and high up on the dash.

A screwdriver was all that was needed to fit the new console.

Looking good...!

It's a piece of genius how these panels fit with the existing system - a really well thought out and beautifully elegant solution.

Starting to take shape and looking just great!

Adding more dials.

The positioning gives really good visibility.

The new auxiliary dash panels kit fully installed - it looks like OEM equipment! Just need to clean up my cab now, and polish everything up around this new centre console. The 109 is re-born (on the inside anyway).

Strata Florida & Mid Wales Trip: Day One

kevin — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:45:02 +0000

The full length video of Day One of our trip to Mid Wales (Day Two video to follow when it’s ready!):

Exploring Strata Florida & Mid Wales Lanes

kevin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:31:11 +0000

A short video trailer for our trip to mid-wales – the weather was pretty bad but that just made it more of an adventure. We drove Strata Florida in the rain which was fantastic, camping along the route in the back of the Land Rovers. Here’s a taster, a full length video coming soon…

Greenlaning Video – April in the Lanes

kevin — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 08:15:25 +0000

Here’s the video of our trip last week in the greenlanes of north somerset.

Greenlanes & Fords…

kevin — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:10:15 +0000

Land Rover T-Shirt #59 Series 3 Truck Cab

kevin — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:49:39 +0000

We have commmissioned a special line of outstanding Land Rover T-Shirt with exclusive, limited edition designs – Order them using the link below – perfect for Christmas presents!

Land Rover Series 3 - Town & Country Retro T-Shirt #59

[ November 07th 2010: Sorry our online store is being re-developed, please come back later]

LRO Show at Shepton Mallet

kevin — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:12:25 +0000

Made the local trip to the Landrover Owners Show at Shepton Mallet. A great experience all round – seemed to be badly publicized though, many of the traders there saying it was too quiet. And I found it very hard to get any info on it too! But once there it was superb, great fun, loads of old gear and army surplus Jerry cans etc, Landrover tents, parts, LR branded gear and huge variety of vehicles on show and driving around the big Bath and West Showground site. The Off Road course hosted and mashalled by XtremeOffRoad was great fun to watch as variously-equipped Landy’s went through the mud…

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LIghweight for sale at the Old Sodbury Sortout end of the showground...

The military end... some great tents here

Super New Discovery!

Now that's a BIG tent!

The Offroad course, managed by www.xtremeoffroad.co.uk

Nice Defender 110 Double Cab...

Some fantastic vehicles here on display from this landrover club

Several Lightweights on show.

Lightweight with super-lift!

Gorgeous Series III

gear... and more gear... I could have spent a fortune!

Camel Trophy Defender on the off road course

Discovery I thunders through the mud

About to take the plunge...

Taking the plunge!

no problem for this one!

The Tilt Trailor...

Gimme More Mud!

Into the hole...

‘Keynsham Camels’… Camel Trophy Defender HiCap

kevin — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:41:56 +0000

Spotted this unusual Landrover on the off road course at the LRO show at Bath & West Showground: It’s a Camel Trophy vehicle – a Defender 110 High Capacity Pickup (HCPU) and all set up for Adventuring! More background and pictures here on this unusual Camel Trophy HiCap. According to the site it’s one of only 3 HiCaps used as Camel Trophy vehicles – one for example was specially built “to carry a dismantled raft on which the Camel Trophy convoy was able to cross rivers and lakes”!