Recent content by TJN

Well after the disaster of an engine death four days before shipping to the USA we changed our plans as the paperwork would have been a 7 week delay and would mean missing Expo 2013 so weve headed south to France and plan on going around France then Italy,Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica back to...

WOW what a difference a day makes. The engine has died on the defender today on the way back form the paint shop, injector pump has failed and taken out 2 cylinders. So time for a rethink and new engine. the current one was a Nissan FD35T mated to a LT85 gearbox. So need to spend money on...

Not forgotten Colorado I assure you. Christian, would be great to meet up in Tahoe, were lucky that my father in law has a place up there so we have two weeks under a roof rather than just the roof tent! Rockwood, I may give you a shout!!

So were now finished the rebuild of my Defender 130 130pictures And it leaves for a container on monday to head to NY. We will then be heading south via various friends on the Eastern sea board and acroos to Gilmer for SCARR event and up to Flagstaff and across to SF via Arizona and Utah of...

Yeah figured its 20foot long and is bright yellow with snorkel tree sliders and shed loads more!! Was just trying to get an idea on costs in cam grounds so budgeting on RV costs so hopefully will be cheaper.

So a question for those across the pond. How would you classify a Defender with roof tent when you check into a camp ground or RV site? in the UK its a defender, in Europe its an Autocar, in USA????

WOOHOO Were are coming across from the UK for this. Finally got all the paperwork sorted for shipping the Defender across.

Superb, our first hard date on the schedule!

So having been dribbling over my keyboard at the photos of the 2012 expo when and where will the 2013 event be? Would be fab to add it to my trip next year.

WOW, this is truely amazing. Now I am just trying to work out how much time to spend in Utah, am now thinking at least a month. Thanks for sharing.