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!

WELCOME • It took all sorts to produce the world’s best-selling Land Rover magazine

LAND ROVER’S SAVIOUR • Designed to fend off Japanese competition, this pre-production One Ten starred in a promo film to woo customers back to Land Rover. Forty years on, it’s been lovingly restored

WORLD OF LAND ROVERS • Superb photos of what you’ve been up to in your Land Rovers. PRIZEWINNERS are Adam Breakspear and Paddy Turner

THE MAKING OF LRO • For our final printed issue, early contributors share their experience of how LRO’s popularity grew

DEALERSHIP MAKEOVER

FAMILY FUN IN PERTHSHIRE

BOWLED OVER

News in brief

Ineos Grenadier pick-up is on its way

ADVENTURE CLUB

STUFF

USED & ABUSED

‘As it turned out, our last Peterborough show and our last issue of the magazine have almost gone hand in hand’

‘I was looking at what I later learned was a IIA Forward Control; and after that first sighting all other vehicles paled into insignificance’

‘I realised that, in my knackered state, I’d asked the guy in the workshop to fill each tyre with chicken soup’

the LRO Adventure trail

We climb on to Little Moor on a gravel unclassified county road (UCR) blessed with fantastic views, before dropping off the moor to the A19 • Anyone who has travelled northern sections of the A1 will have seen the North York Moors standing proud to the east. There’s plenty there for Land Rover owners, as Neil Watterson finds

WHILE YOU’RE THERE • Places to stop along the route – the LRO Adventure Trail is about more than just the greenlanes.

ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW • LRO’s greenlane star rating takes into account length, scenery, terrain, driveability, local interest and the all-important ‘wow’ factor.

THE BEST 5K ALL ROUNDERS • Family runaround, greenlaner, tourer, off-roader, camper – the Freelander 2 and Discovery 2 & 3 do all this with ease. What more do you need?

DISCOVERY 2

FREELANDER 2

DISCOVERY 3

THE LAST WORD • Larry Leong, the only three-times London- Singapore overland adventurer, shares his behind-the-scenes memories of Last Overland

OFF-BEAT DISCOVERY • Paul Jones is head-over-heels in love with his modified, off-grid Disco 5 camper

Sleeping beauty • Built from a pile of parts for the second time in its life, this CKD Series I is now a total stunner

FUTURE CLASSICS • John Pearson visits a company run by two Land Rover fanatics who are producing relatively affordable EV conversions

CORSICAN CRUISER • Helmut Hutter’s beautifully restored Series IIA is the perfect summer drive in search of sunshine, mountains and Mediterranean beaches

TREASURE HUNT • Paulo Baltazar searched high and low to find his dream Series III

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

A Freelander owner’s quandary • Thanks to everyone who has written in over the years. Your experiences and ideas have helped shape the mag.

20 YEARS OF THE PLIMSOLL LINE • Before Mark Saville jumps aboard his 1957 Series...