All the gear
ONE of the best things about owning an older Land Rover, in my opinion, is the huge range of parts and accessories available to customise or modify the vehicle to suit an individual owner’s needs. From heated seats to four-inch lift kits, just about every part of an old Land Rover can be upgraded or modified. I absolutely adore original unmolested timewarp vehicles, but sometimes I look at some of the vehicles that my customers bring me and wish I owned an old Defender 90 with the full off-road treatment, big tyres, front and rear winches, rollcage, the lot.
As we all know, a standard Defender on half-decent tyres offers pretty awesome off-road performance in showroom trim. Land Rover’s engineers really knew what they were doing, and the vehicles that rolled out of Solihull were (with very few exceptions) a well-rounded package in which the balance between on-road and off-road ability was just about perfect for most users. When you carry out mechanical modifications to the vehicle this does not always make it better, it just tilts the balance in one direction or another.
High-ratio transfer boxes are a good example of this. The standard box on most
