Land Rover Owner

LRO is the world's biggest magazine dedicated entirely towards the Land and Range Rover enthusiast. Every issue you'll find our team of experts writing inspirational features on: - Adventure! Off-road adventures in some of the world's most spectacular countryside - Restoration! Inspiring tales of old Land and Range Rovers lovingly rescued and restored... - Maps! Tough tracks with OS maps for you to try - Rare models... find something unusual in every issue - Land Rovers and spare parts for sale... a fantastic range of parts & vehicles for sale, every month Plus the latest club news and events from around the world. Love Land Rovers? Love LRO!

WRITING IN THIS ISSUE…

WELCOME • It takes people with keen culinary skills to produce the world’s best-selling Land Rover magazine

KEEPING IT OLD-SCHOOL • How a simple tidy-up snowballed into a full bare-chassis rebuild, resulting in an ultra- capable 90 with early-1990s’ aesthetics

WORLD OF LAND ROVERS • Send us your pics – we’ll publish as many as we can fit in! PLUS Great prizes for the best two in each issue – see over for details

ARTHUR GODDARD, 1921-2022 • As the engineer charged with making the Land Rover a reality, his place in history is assured

THE WORLD’S MOST EXPENSIVE DEFENDER?

THE UK’S MOST-WANTED USED MOTOR IS…

SERIES OWNERS: CAN YOU HELP?

WILL THE DISCO SPORT BE SLASHED?

News in brief

IT’S NEARLY SHOWTIME! • On 10-11 September, where will you be? We’ll all be at the LRO Show in Peterborough. See you there!

MENDIP CHALLENGE? IT SURE WAS! • This popular event’s contestants didn’t have it easy – partly thanks to Colin Willcox, as he reports

MEET UP WITH LRD FOR A SOUTH-WEST FEST

WYE AND WELSH GEARING UP FOR 2023 NATIONAL

SO, WHAT’S GOING ON?

ADVENTURE CLUB

STUFF • Latest products for your Land Rover

USED & ABUSED

THE KNOWLEDGE • ‘Plywood, old road signs, Pozidriv self-tappers and gaffer tape do not, to my mind, fit the description “original condition”’

THE ADVENTURER • ‘It’s Range Rover that gets noticed. So Defender, Disco and Disco Sport are seen by some as models in the Range Rover line-up’

THE TINKERER • ‘Lose weight – straps, jacks, dead bodies, spare engines, recovery kit, anything you’ve shoved in the back that can come out’

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS • Peter Crichton grasped the opportunity to travel the length of Scotland’s Watershed Divide

PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT • If you're lucky, you’ll get a box of chocolates or bunch of flowers from the dealer when you buy a new car – but purchasers of the 25 Land Rover Works V8 Trophy Defenders got three days of competition at Land Rover’s off-road proving site at Eastnor Castle. Neil Watterson was invited too; here’s how he (and all the others…) got on.

CROSSING THE NORTH • In part one of a new series, John Pearson tracks wolves, meets a man in a devil mask, tries local food and wine – and drives superb mountain routes across the top of Portugal

Loads of classics at the LRO Show

A full recovery • Practice nurse Georgie Green restored her ailing Series III back to health with help from dad Jason

A DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH • David Marshall, jeweller to the Queen, has a gem of a Series IIA 109

James Taylor’s Roverphile • More archive gems and rarities from the world’s leading Land Rover historian

LAND ROVER PHOTO OF THE YEAR 2022

YOUR THOUGHTS • Email, tweet, post online – and, hey, you can even write a proper letter! But do get in touch to have your say

Dipstick’s Dirty Doings

‘IT’S MY LIFE!’ • LRO Show compère Wayne’s Land Rover love affair has culminated in this Discovery 3 that he’s converted into an occasional camper

FAIREST OF THEM...