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I used to carry an 8' x 10' tarp and a bunch of bungie cords in my Range Rover. I'd drop the tailgate and lower the lift gate then throw the tarp over the back and tie it down with bungie cords to the rear wheels, rear wheel openings and the rear trailer hitch. If you got the tarp good and snug...

That's a nice looking trailer - and probably really worth close to what they are asking for it. One of the $500-$700 trailer projects that someone else mentioned would probably be gutted, filthy and pretty decrepit looking (at least all of the ones I've seen). Fiberglass trailers tend to be...

I just heard about this from one of my vendors today - the new Pelican 0450 tool case - expensive but very cool. I purchase all of the Pelican products I use at Lockheed from the nice folks at Beam Distributing in Richmond, VA. Great prices and nice people to do business with. They told me that...

I rebuilt the engine somewhere around the 200,000 mile mark. The engine is pretty worn now - at the rebuild I had to bore it out to the maximum oversize available on the pistons so it will have to be either sleeved or have the block replaced at the next rebuild. I've had to go into the...

Check your Rover History - 2-door Range Rovers were all the factory built from its introduction in 1970 until the early 1980's. There were some conversion 4-doors built earlier by Monteverdi but the factory version didn't come out until 1981. The last 2-door was built on January 11, 1994. They...

I've got over 375,000 miles on my 2.25 diesel - you just have to adjust your driving style to accept that you're gonna be the guy the old VW buses get to pass.

got www.fiberglassrv.com for lots more information about this class of trailer. Bolers were primarily built in Canada although they had a plant in Wichita and you see them pretty frequently along the US-Canadian border states. The Scamp manufacturing company took over production of the Boler...

1978 Boler fiberglass trailer - weighs around 900 lbs and can easily be towed by my 4-cylinder diesel Rovers

Sold on Ebay for $5403.00 - great buy A friend of mine called to tell me that once again I'm a bad influence - apparently he's the new owner of the Kamperoo and will go pick it up in a week or two.

Here's "camp" at the Mid Atlantic Rally in 2007

I put a set of EE retainers on my truck because I had the spring pop out several times on my Range Rover Classic. I didn't like all the noise the cones made and figure that by adjusting my line I can usually keep the wheels on the ground and won't need the extra articulation.

Or Bambi! I've noticed that my paper air cleaner element stays cleaner looking longer with the pre-filter - especially if I run a lot of dirt roads.

For travel in the USA I think a range of around 500 miles is sufficient. With my diesel Defender (14.5 gallon tank) I can get around 300-320 miles on the main fuel tank. If I carry a 5 gallon jerry can that adds around 100-120 miles range. So two additional 5 gallon fuel cans will take me about...

You're really going to like the fiberglass egg version of camping - they make a very comfortable base camp. I have a 1978 Boler that weighs right around 900 lbs. My 4-cyl diesel Defender tows it easily.

One of my club members bought the Kirhams awning - he said it's about what you expect for $90 - I take it he's not real impressed with it. That Bus Depot awning looks like a lot better design for not that much more money - I think if Ross sees it he'll probably return the Kirhams and buy the...

Do a search on the Carawagon conversion for Range Rovers. They were a limited run special starting in the 1970's.

Check out the Carawagon conversions on this page: http://www.expeditionlandrover.info/Carawagons.htm

Be sure to check out the Ex-tec website too: http://extec-gmbh.de/shop/index.php/cPath/1 Lots of really neat ideas here Be sure to look at: Camp-Tec-Zeltklappe Defender

Doug Richardson built a pop-up top for his 109 back in the early seventies - I think you can see his latest version here: www.landrover-motorhome.com/ You could look at how the German Eriba trailers build their elevating roof sections for ideas as well. you can see some examples here...

I have probably used mine for moving downed trees or extracting bushes more than self recovery. Second highest use is for recovering somebody elses stuck truck. Typically I think winches should usually be used more often - I've seen folks break stuff when they could have easily winched up over...