design - Land Rover section

Gallery - Reader's Land Rover in action

From Car and Driver magazine, September 1964:

"A Land Rover is at once a delightful runabout and a rolling torture chamber. It combines the best and worst features of a truck with the insouciance of an MG-TC (insouciance - French noun, characteristics that entice or charm one into unsuspected trouble). It is a car that every man feels compelled to buy at one time or another, but hardly anybody has a use for. It is best suited to off-the-road cross-country adventure. Conversely it is not specifically useful for shopping trips, or general family-household use, but that's what people do with it. This is one of several instances where perfectly reasonable people have seemed to take leave of their senses on first meeting the Land Rover. It is less of a car than a state of mind. Its owners are the most partisan group imaginable and its would-be owners are legion."

There are pictures of Series Land Rovers doing what Series Land Rovers do best, submitted by their owners.

2011 update on Readers Rigs photos

The pictures on this page are from the late 1990's and early 2000's. Fom back in the days when us country folks were still on 2400 baud phone modems and jpegs took forever to load. So they are all low rez small photos.
After a heitus of at least half a decade the readers rigs section is once again active for people who would like to share pictures of your Defender or Series Land Rover.
When you finish looking at the version 1 photos, you can see the version 2 Land Rover reader rig photos.

Click on any image to show a larger better detailed version


Kieth Elliot's Land Rover 88 getting washed in Canada	Joseph Broach's Land Rover 88 "Sid" near Moab U.S.A.

Adrian Redmond's 1976 Land Rover 109 in Denmark	A rare look at a 1984 South African Paul Oxley Land Rover 110 taking its rest

John Cranfield's Land Rover 109 "Muddy" getting washed Canadian style.	Richard Clarke's 1951 Series I Down under.

Bill Rice's 1964 Land Rover 109 "Mrs. Merdle" in Georgia U.S.A.	Bob Bernard's "Sherman" Rock crawling in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, U.S.A.

Frank Geerts 1978 Land Rover 109 playing in deep mud, Belgium	Three Land Rovers on Tour in Arizona, U.S.A. James Howard, Dave Brown, Gerry Elam

Arjan Haanstra's Range Rover working in the snow. Netherlands	Shaun Nel's Land Rover on tour in South Africa

Robert Hoban's Land Rover having an accident near Winnipeg Canada	Enrico Gandolfo's Land Rover Series III near Torino Italy

John sanchez's Land Rover during the Mid Atlantic Rally Virginia, U.S.A.	John Benham and Dale Avery near Pinehurst, Idaho U.S.A.

Michael Slade's Range Rover "on location" during a photo shoot Oregon, USA	Granville "Granny" Pool's Land Rover series III "The Snark" during the '98 mud run. California USA

Jeannie Peeler's Land Rover D90 drinking at the river in Virginia, U.S.A	Jon Stehn's Range Rover in Colorado, USA

Jim Hall's 1966 Land Rover, "Elephant Chaser" in Colorado, USA	Kerry Scott 's Land Rover leading a club run, Virginia, USA

Ash Smith's 1967 Land Rover being washed New Zealand style Holy cow what a story!	Mitch Stockdales's Land Rover 88 "Red Dinosaur" Taking a rest during a trail run in Moab Utah, U.S.A.

Oliver Gottlob's ex-MoD 1976 Series III 109 "Slow & Smokey" playing in Germany	Luis Madeira's Defender D90 aircraft near Lousã, Portugal

Steve O'Neil's Land Rover ambulance "Warthog" in Louisiana U.S.A.	Paul Heystee's Land Rover Dormobile doing what Dormobiles do best in Sardinia

Alyna Tai's Land Rover "Janda" hopping about in Malaysia	SIII 88 station wagon called "Adik" - that means "little sister" in the Malay language. In Malaysia

Some cars from Land Rover Owners Club Malaysia with their owners almost ready to pull out for a run into the jungle

Over a bridge - v e r y carefully In Skardu - North of Pakistan	Dave Philippe's 1969 Land Rover 88 in the Canadian Rockes

Eric Mang's "Swamp Thing" near New Orleans, Louisiana, USA	"Lucy" as last seen before being disassembled for a complete rebuild in Dec 00. Redmond, Washington, USA.

I think I can! I think I can! I think I can! Cassie Schutte, owner/driver Pienaarspoort, South Africa	Carey Woodings' 1962 Land Rover "Nessie the Antique Monster" Indiana, USA

Claire's flower child, "Hoopty-machine" a 1973 Series III 88, California, USA	A little help at the rear lift handles please! Joe Mulqueen's 109 stationwagon, California, USA

Lance Jonsson's 109 camping at Deer Park in the Olympics. Washington, USA	Bob Palmer's 101 movin upstream, Florida, USA

"Afdeling", a 1976 88 out greenlaning in the countryside of Jonggol, West Java, Indonesia	Javier de Mazarrasa's Ex-Spanish Army 1980 Santana 88 in the mountains of Spain.
	Version 2 Land Rover reader rig photos.
Björn Pettersson's Land Rover taking the road less traveled in Sweden

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