Great thread and blue haze you've done some fantastic work on your landy.
I've got a disco and one of the things I've always been a bit envious of with defenders is the simplicity of them in terms of home made mods. With discos, they're a bit more complicated because of the lack of straight lines in the interior, and all the pointless plastic trim.
Never the less, one of the things I've found with my disco's boot is that it's too low to effectively stand a cooker on, and cook, without giving me an achy back (I guess that's why alot of people use those chequerplate rear door cards with the cooker shelf on, but I don't like these, because they aren't as original). Also, the rear load cover is one of those flimsy pull-out vinyl ones, and they're no good for carrying anything heavier than a picnic blanket or a coat.
So I plan to modify my discos boot, in a similar fashion to the disco on the Overland Rovers website. (this one;
Boot storage system)
I'll use either MDF or Plywood, and cover it with grey carpet so it looks semi-tidy (the same as that guy's done).
Broadly I intend to make a hinged rear load cover which secures to the old mounts for the rear load cover, or simply rests on top of where the dickie seats fold away into. This can act as a rear load cover, shelf to cook on as it will be nice and high up, and also a shelf to rest more kit on, instead of that pointless flimsy cover.
Then similarlar to this idea;
I want to make another shelf lower down, which will act as a lower shelf to cook/ rest kit on, but also provide tie down points, and allow some boxes similar to the ones pictured, to go underneath with tools, recovery stuff, and cooker in.
Will be getting the tape measure out tomorrow, and start designing this thing. If it's within my capabilities to do and I go ahead with it, I'll post pics up along the way.
