Get lion or leopard dung and sprinkle around car. No joking. Anything with four legs and a tail will react like if probed rectally with a 10,000V stick, and head at warp speed for the North Pole or thereabout. As for out-of-the-box solutions, there was that guy in Zimbabwe - a real reprobate...

A while ago, I asked a friend about a Landy in his yard. His reply? "This one? Well, it's not completely finished yet..." Tactful understatement, I dare say. So we shook hands. Of course, there were some finishing touches to do, and it went through a few intermediary stages. But in...

One thing is sure... He ain't gonna get the wheel on any of my cars.

Our local mechanics are very good at remapping 200Tdi's. And anything else, including air-cooled 1964 Lister engines. They just need a hammer and a couple of odd-sized spanners, and the next time you open your bonnet you discover a remapped engine, full of things you never knew could exist...

Came off a Cruiser? Probably made by Denso Japan. As good as any other good winch, better than many who claim to be good. More ruggedly built than Warne. Check if it's a 12V or 24V, many Cruisers have 24V systems. Got one on my 127". Only problem I had was to line up all the holes when...

Intercooler revised... Spent a couple of days swimming in a heap of various bends, hoses, pipes, and bits and pieces of dubious origin, but in the end all lines up. And I'm not going to put back the heater box (which I don't have anyway), I'll use the space to fit a second battery. Always...

Are you sure it's yours? :D

Had it been my car, deer be dead, and cooked to pay for damages to front. Might have swerved to get it... :D

Get a tracker connected to GSM network. Will ring your cellphone if someone tampers with it, you can track the car, and disable the engine from your phone. No, I don't have one on my landies. When in odd places, got a couple of guys snoring close by with AK47s, though. So far it seems to work...

Africa does not need "Help". A land where you can have two crops a year, fertile land, wonderful scenery and wildlife that can make a fortune in tourism; a land where you find in abundance gold, copper, diamonds, iron, aluminium, tantalite, uranium, kaolin, bentonite, vermiculite, oil, silver...

Yep, exactly the conclusion I had reached, already done it, thanks! Got a salvageable rad off a dead Disco, had it redone, and now I just have to scrounge the relevant bits and pieces of hoses and bends and pipes to connect the whole thing together. Of course I can't get anything that even...

A question for those who've "been there, done that, or seen it"... First, the background: Car: - 127" Rapier, V8 removed and replaced with 200tdi (not by me) - The radiator uses all the width of the front grill, 2 electrical fans - An air-to-air intercooler (don't know where it came from, not...

Dubai, I'm only talking for Africa. I can have a dead gearbox in the middle of the bush, no problem. I just need to send someone on foot with a message, he'll find his way to the nearest village, will get in touch with a friend 600km away, who'll get a used tranny and send it up the coach to the...

Kingsley Holgate's vehicles are sponsored by Land Rover, so he does not have much choice, and he'll definitely have a good source for parts whenever needed (I don't think that Solihull would sponsor someone, just to leave him stranded by the roadside when something messes up!). Land Cruisers...

What I mean by "non fixable" is that if you have a problem with an essential electronic whatever, there you are. Stuck. I once repaired the distributor of a Peugeot 505 by the roadside, with a rubber band, a paper clip, a couple of washers cut from a plastic container lying on the ground, and a...

I live in Africa, and have done so for long. Don't know if you plan to come this way. Have Landies, and have done so for long too. Spend a good part of my time a few hundred miles from the nearest road, and I make my living there with 4x4s and good rifles as my tools. You can sell almost any...

Apart from my 90... A Landy Cruiser 4.2 diesel, and a Rapier 127".

Last drive? And she coughs dead? I'd head straight for home and not stop on the way, I'm sure as heck not trekking 500 friggin' kilometers of ruts and mud and bush on me feet!!!!!

In my cozy lil' place I've got a Rhodesian Ridgeback, a Karimojong warrior with his spear, a .375 H&H, a .400 double rifle, and quite an assortment of sharp and/or blunt objects. Never got a problem with thieves... :D But one of these days I'm going to install the tracker/immobilizer that has...

If all you want is to cook... In most countries I've been to, cooking gas (propane or butane) is sold by the major oil companies, on a "cylinder exchange" basis. If you have a Shell or Total cylinder, you'll probably be able to just exchange it along the way at the local rate. And if you can't...