Wild Rover

[Ermanno]

Hi y'all.
First of all I wanna excuse myself for my english, I ain't be using it for a while so it could sound pretty strange.
My name is Ermanno, i come from northern Italy but I'm lookin' to emigrate somewhere else, so I'm try to fix my Land Rover for the mission.
Now, I wanna introduce you "Wild Rover", my 1996 Land Rover Defender, equipped with the glorious 300Tdi.
I wish I can gain a lot of opinions, critics, suggestions and informations from other "countries", so, other cultures and believes.

This is how it was, just out of the dealer 26 months ago:





And this is of last week in Switzerland where I've been working this summer and actually still looking for a more important job.



PS: really hoping you can see the pics.

 

[AndrewClarke]

Hey. Welcome to Expedition Portal! Where are you in Switzerland? I just ate a piece of Gruyère at lunch. I closed my eyes, took a whiff of that cheese and for a moment I could swear I was back in the Alps.

Nice Rover too

 

[Ermanno]

Oi Andrew.
I was in Ticino, the italian side of Switzerland; but usually (next week too) I use to relax in Interlaken and central CH, enjoin' mountains such as the Jungfrau, Eiger etc etc.
Thank btw.

 

[AndrewClarke]

Awesome. We head to Switzerland whenever time/money permit. Generally we're in the mountains in Berner Oberland, and visiting family in Lausanne. I've only been to Italy once. Maybe next trip we'll spend some more time on the Italian side of the Alps.

 

[Ermanno]

Would be awesome. Gimme a call in case.

 

[MarkIIa]

Nifty 90 Ermanno!
Could you please point me in the direction of a source for your roof top tent?

 

[Ermanno]

Nifty 90 Ermanno!
Could you please point me in the direction of a source for your roof top tent?

Hi, thanks.
The tent is a 1982 Gidion's Air Camping, one of the first roof top tent used by the great Nino Cirani in his overland expeditions.
I got it for 150€ and made a full restoration.

 

[Ermanno]

Here you go.

 

[MarkIIa]

Thanks Ermanno, it looked nylon and hence lighter weight than the usual RTTs.
Any more photos of your Ninety?

 

[Ermanno]

I got a lot, but not really of those days...
You can see the progresses btw.

 

[Ermanno]

Just restored the joint ball kit of the steering.