Steevo
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- Location
- Gloucestershire
Brilliant thread Clive!!! Really enjoyed reading/looking at all that. Please do keep us all posted.
Scram Africa '24 - picture heavy !
- Thread starter Clive
- Start date
- Location
- East yorks
Great thread, you maybe already have but having traveled a lot in africa, take some photocopies of your passports and keep somewhere if the worst happens you at least have some id and it helps at a consulate.
Pete how kind of you to think of me! Clive loves my feedback - now we have something else in common - I too have a 1969 Landrover - except mine is a 109, full carpeted out spec with proper door cards, left foot dip switch, Salisbury axle, overdrive, and a proper heater. (And a 2.25 diesel....and no MOT!)You’ve worked hard, taken risks, invested money. Time for some reward.
Get out there and do it. Do it all, do it well and do it safely.
And bring your favourite internet sparring partner a stick of rock home……,
Good on you Clive, did you upgrade the seats and suspension? Or is it like driving a Ford 6600 for 14hrs a day?
Excellent adventure @Clive , won't be quick thoughNot sure if this is interesting content "off topic" for a farming forum or not ? (please let me know if not and I will stop boring you all).
Next week I set of on a bit of an adventure through Morocco via Barcelona in a Puma engined series 1969 2a landrover with my friend Alan
The route
24/04: Barcelona - Boarding ferry
25/04: Arrival in Tanger - Tetouan (50km of asphalt)
26/04: Tetouan - Nador - 350km of asphalt
27/04: Nador - Rekkam - 380km, around 180km offroad
28/04: Rekkam - Erfoud - 370km, around 130km offroad
29/04: Erfoud - Sahara Camp - 150km, around 140km offroad
30/04: Sahara Camp - Marabout - 135km, around 100km offroad
01/05: Marabout - Saghro - 340km, around 120km offroad
02/05: Saghro - Bin el Ouidane - 280km, around 80km offroad
03/05: Bin el Ouidane - Assilah - 490km
04/05: Assilah - Tanger Med - 150km, by road
05/05: Navigation
06/05: Arrival in Barcelona
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It's an event that's run for a while now, started as a bike thing but opened up to 4x4's 30yrs or older a few years back - combination of hotels and camping off grid in some seriously remote spots with medical and mechanical support, its not a race (........... officially at least !)
Prep and packing nearly done now - should be quite an adventure
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let me know if this is interesting or not, if it is I will share some pics of the prep that's gone into the 2a over the last few weeks and will try update on progress along our route, I might even pack a go pro ! if not I will shut up and just enjoy
Another 1969 109 #Halcyonyear
- Location
- North Norfolk
That LR did Turkey in 1970, Arctic Circle 72, Senegal 73, Welsh Hill Rally.
- Location
- Dorset/Wilts
Love to know more about "Alan"
Have you still got it?
- Location
- North Norfolk
Sold it in about 1979, I think, as I spent 22 years working in Africa where I had a 1956 Ser 1 86", Unimog S, Jeep CJ5 and Haflinger as well as motorbikes ending up with a BMW R80GS
Sounds like next level adventure, any photos?
- Location
- North Norfolk
I might start another thread sometime, I am getting Clive's thread a bit too far off topic!
would love to read about that / see pictures, sounds really interesting
seats are upgraded and pretty comfortable, also shortened the steering column and fitted a smaller steering wheel to make more space and improve the driving position as much as possible, range rover power steering means i won’t pull my arms out their sockets. - it’s actually ( reasonably) pleasant to drive now !
Shocks and springs upgraded but it’s still
leaf springs do not expecting rolls royce ride quality !!
With no airbags and only 2 ‘crumple zones’.the puma 2a can top 100 mph …….. ( apparently)
Awesome build and road trip though, looks like a real adventure.
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- Location
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Original bulkhead?
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Did you try the switch to see if it was an ejector seat ? Would that be to eject the driver or passenger? LOLBit more (fuel) and a fan override switch. it's pretty much ready to go ……….
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Next pictures will hopefully be from a much warmer and dryer location and not a French autoroute layby in a week from now
Alan is a great friend and complete landrover nut. He has a very important and responsible job so not sure i can post pictures of him !
During covid when under travel restrictions we both fitted roof tents and converted Defender 110’s to a “overland” spec and took them to up Scotland with our families
We had such an amazing time and kids loved it so much we have since done Wales, west coast Ireland and Northern Spain - all of which being the most awesome trips camping off grid etc
best holidays / memories ever ……. can’t see us ever being happy in a fancy hotel again !
few pics of the 110’s on those various trips
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suffolksmallholder
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- Suffolk