Troublesome trialler

NOTHER vehicle that has been sitting around for a while is a proper, old-school trialler, built up some time in the 1980s on a shortened Range Rover chassis with an integral rollcage, various Series bodywork bits and wearing the identity of the Series III which donated those bits. You can’t do that sort of thing now of course: if you built such a vehicle today it would need an IVA inspection and would be issued with a new chassis number and a Q plate registration. But before the rules were tightened in 1993 there was no problem with building up a vehicle from a pile of bits from several scrap Land Rovers and giving it the chassis plate