Land Rover Ideas for Grenadiers
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jscherb
Expedition Leader
From Land Rover Owner, a fully built storage system for the inside of a Discovery:
This next view is from the front. One side of the split rear seat is removed and there's storage and the accessory electrical system in its place.
Back to the first photo - did you notice the drawer fridge? They're fairly common in big rigs but almost unheard of in expedition vehicles. It's a Dometic 31-quart: https://defender.com/en_us/dometic-ac-adapter-9105330082
I used a Dometic drawer fridge in a slide-out kitchen design I did for Tentrax trailers. Everything folded up and slid into a box that mounted on the tongue of the Tentrax (or most any other trailer tongue). The drawer fridge was accessible even when the full kitchen was stowed, it was very handy.
I had the Dometic drawer fridge here for a while while when I was doing the design.
I posed it on my MORryde Trail Kitchen just to see how it might work out in that application.
I think drawer fridges are worth considering for an expedition build.
This next view is from the front. One side of the split rear seat is removed and there's storage and the accessory electrical system in its place.
Back to the first photo - did you notice the drawer fridge? They're fairly common in big rigs but almost unheard of in expedition vehicles. It's a Dometic 31-quart: https://defender.com/en_us/dometic-ac-adapter-9105330082
I used a Dometic drawer fridge in a slide-out kitchen design I did for Tentrax trailers. Everything folded up and slid into a box that mounted on the tongue of the Tentrax (or most any other trailer tongue). The drawer fridge was accessible even when the full kitchen was stowed, it was very handy.
I had the Dometic drawer fridge here for a while while when I was doing the design.
I posed it on my MORryde Trail Kitchen just to see how it might work out in that application.
I think drawer fridges are worth considering for an expedition build.
jscherb
Expedition Leader
Ideas for a Quartermaster? An issue of Land Rover Monthly features this HiCap pickup on the cover:
It's outfitted for shooting, and has two drawers in the bed with a nice wooden floor above the drawers.
The right side drawer is for guns and the other is for drinks. I never thought guns and alcohol really went together but maybe in the U.K. they do
On either side of the drawers are power outlets - on the left 240vac outlets (the standard in the U.K, bottom photo) and on the right side (top left photo) are 12v outlets and a battery monitor.
The drawers and some of the power outlets could be done in a Quartermaster. Probably couldn't repurpose a fuel filler bezel like on the Land Rover because the Quartermaster's fuel filler is behind a door. There is extra space inside the filler door on the gasoline models but it's debatable whether it would be a good idea to combine electrical connections and the fuel filler behind that door.
It's outfitted for shooting, and has two drawers in the bed with a nice wooden floor above the drawers.
The right side drawer is for guns and the other is for drinks. I never thought guns and alcohol really went together but maybe in the U.K. they do
On either side of the drawers are power outlets - on the left 240vac outlets (the standard in the U.K, bottom photo) and on the right side (top left photo) are 12v outlets and a battery monitor.
The drawers and some of the power outlets could be done in a Quartermaster. Probably couldn't repurpose a fuel filler bezel like on the Land Rover because the Quartermaster's fuel filler is behind a door. There is extra space inside the filler door on the gasoline models but it's debatable whether it would be a good idea to combine electrical connections and the fuel filler behind that door.
jscherb
Expedition Leader
From an Instagram post by Exmoor, for Defenders and Series Land Rovers - front-facing fold-up seats for the cargo area.
Here's what Exmoor says about them:
These mount to the rigid rear wheel arches in the Defender; different mounting would be required for the Grendier. Also not sure if there's enough room in the cargo area of a Grenadier for something like this.
Another jump seat option: When I had a Jeep Scrambler I installed fold-up side-facing jump seats, they took up very little space when folded and were the favorite seats of my then-young sons. They were salvaged from a Toyota FJ40; I fabricated mounts for the seats and seat belts to the body of the Scrambler.
Here's what Exmoor says about them:
These mount to the rigid rear wheel arches in the Defender; different mounting would be required for the Grendier. Also not sure if there's enough room in the cargo area of a Grenadier for something like this.
Another jump seat option: When I had a Jeep Scrambler I installed fold-up side-facing jump seats, they took up very little space when folded and were the favorite seats of my then-young sons. They were salvaged from a Toyota FJ40; I fabricated mounts for the seats and seat belts to the body of the Scrambler.
