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first group shot of three of my four Land Rovers - 110 P300, D90 Tdi, 1966 109 diesel wagon - plus a seperate shot of the 1967 SIIA 88" in the garage undergoing a nut and bolt restoration with the necessary sports car in the back ground

Here are some pics of the engine compartment - can't see much for the typical big plastic cover and a pic of the available colors - I kind of liked the light blue

There are CV joints in the driveshaft - maybe they are more durable at weird angles than standard U-joints and easier to replace in the field (provided you carry a spare of course). The guy who was telling us about the car said they made it a point to minimize some of the electrical stuff that...

I think its an alloy transmission pan - I've seen a picture of a big skid pan covering that area on other vehicles - in these pictures you can see the tabs on the front of the cross member where it mounts.

I was pretty impressed with the test drive up in Dahlonega as well - here are my pictures of the day. https://solaros1.smugmug.com/Land-Rover-Events/Ineos-Grenadier-test-drive/ I didn't take my camera out on the trail ride because they asked us not to since these prototype vehicles were not...

I'm a big fan of the Nomadica Kovea bamboo table - I've bought two of them - one large and one medium. I was talking to the Kovea representative at Overland Expo a few years ago and was surprised to learn how big an industry camping gear was in South Korea - more than 2 Billion if I remember...

Most of the overheating/ head gasket issues can be the result of deposits building up in the lower courses of the radiator. That and some plastic plugs they used back in those years that should be replaced by brass ones before they disintegrate and cause the system to lose pressure and overheat...

Absolutely - he was Commander Torrijos right hand man during the early 1970's - Noriega was head of military intelligence and on the payroll of the CIA. He was the man that my father went downtown to see about having the stamp cancelled in his passport - dad wound up "donating the Buick to the...

Two of the reminders of this trip that sit on a shelf in my library to this day - the wooden peg that I found in a collapsed adobe in northern Mexico and the broken U-joint from the driveshaft that stranded us in Costa Rica for two days. It was quite the adventure and my mom was great during the...

Night cruise on the Panama Canal Next stop Panama and our eighth border crossing of the trip. This one went relatively smoothly except the border guards were very specific about putting a stamp in Dad’s passport showing that he had imported a car into Panama and told him that he had to export...

Costa Rica is a beautiful country with a high ridge of mountains running down the country. You can pick your climate by selecting your altitude and what side of the mountains you are on. We saw log trucks straining under a single mahogany log that could measure nine feet in diameter (luckily...

Cotton fields in Nicaraugua The border agent told us he could get a visa at the airport in San Salvador if he was flying into Honduras. This meant we had to backtrack about 40 miles to the capital of El Salvador and get him a flight into Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital. Then we had to turn...

In Guatemala we followed Hwy 1 up to just south of San Cristobal Totonicapan where we first joined the Pan American Highway CA1 which winds through mountain ranges and passes a few active volcanos. Between Chaquiya and Los Encuentros Hwy 1 turns off to the south and heads toward Lake Atitlan, a...

After a couple of days exploring Mexico City and burning out my taste buds on a chicken mole’ we headed out for the silver mining center of Taxco. Taxco is a quaint little city that has been the center of the silver jewelry industry in Mexico for hundreds of years. We wandered around shopping...

The first day in Mexico went pretty well – we drove down to Monterrey and then turned west toward Saltillo and passed through a nice mountain range on our way to the central plain. We stopped and poked around an old town where I picked up a hand carved wooden pin from an old post and beam...

This is a report I wrote of a trip we took 49 years ago - looking back it was a lot of fun and a big adventure. I was lucky enough to have some pretty adventurous parents who liked to travel (and drag their kids along) to some pretty neat places. They met in 1945 when my dad was going to...

Keegan at 5 months old - 30 lbs

Why not use a nice big ground tent? Less money and weight - looks like a solution for a problem that's not there.

That's the problem - sometimes they have it closed for Turkey nesting, deer hunts or other reasons and its hard to know whats open when you are 100 miles away. A little local knowledge would be appreciated. Here's a shot from our ride back in 2010

I'm one of the founders of Solaros - the Southern Land Rover Society. We've been talking about doing a day trip to Prentice Cooper - haven't been up there in quite a few years.