Land Rover Monthly

The magazine that covers all you need to know about your Land Rover. Every month our team of experts will bring you inspiring features on inspiring UK and overseas driving and adventures, stunning restorations, technical knowledge and how-to instructions, news, views and opinions on all things Land Rover, old and new!

A new arrival

Defender Octa helps JCB Hydromax to hydrogen land speed record

New off-road track planned for Land Rover Experience Eastnor

Road-legal version of Dakar Rally-winning Defender revealed

DVLA issues updated guidance for historic vehicles

LETTERS

Land Rover Monthly

YOUR PICTURES

PRODUCTS

The never-ending story?

A tilt, a tailgate and a deluge of male logic

The problem with perfection…

The beginning of a ‘lifestyle’

Have clients, will travel

Magic box

The BUSINESS • Having followed its exploits on the trials scene as a youth, Richard Kettlewell has painstakingly recreated his childhood hero from little more than a pile of panels. Now complete, this V8-powered Lightweight is ready to terrorise Yorkshire once more

LIGHTWEIGHT THEORY

RIGHT TIME RIGHT PLACE • Restricting use of greenlanes over the winter months has its critics, but it does pay dividends, as Neil Watterson finds on a trip to Northamptonshire

THE PERFECT GREENLANER • Matt Roberts built this 100in Bowler for greenlaning in the 1990s – and it’s still going strong 100,000 miles later

90 SV • The Defender 90SV was Land Rover’s first bold move into the leisure and lifestyle market and it is now a highly desirable collector’s item

DRONE CATCHER • Built to recover reconnaissance drones and process the film they’d taken, this remarkable Series IIA spent its military career in the shadows. Now preserved in remarkably original condition, we uncover the full story

A DAY WITH BRIT PART • For this month’s visit, Greg King heads to Britpart –  the biggest supplier of Land Rover parts on the planet. Get ready to have your mind blown…

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IT AIN’T HALF HOT, MUM… • Boom Racing and Scaletra bring the full flavour of scale RC culture to the scorching Big Land Rover Fest

TRIED & TESTED

The good times keep rolling • Is a high spec Freelander 2 still the pick of Land Rovers as a daily? Alisdair thinks so

Many talents • From a concours lawn to off-road fun, Martin Port’s Series II thrives at it all

Family entertainment • Mark I’Anson’s 90 was rebuilt on the driveway with his daughters and is now used with West Midlands 4x4 Response

BIG FEST, HUGE FUN • LRM’s first ever Big Land Rover Fest at Newbury Showground was a huge success – if you didn’t make it, here’s what you missed…

EVENTS

Touchscreen Upgrade Panels

Make your classic a one-off

REPLACING WHEEL BEARINGS • Trevor Cuthbert shows how to replace a wheel bearing on the later Defender models

BRINGING AN OLD ENGINE BACK TO LIFE PART 2: Examining the engine • Having bought a secondhand engine, the only way to know if it will run again is by opening it up for inspection. Richard Hall breaks out the spanners

DIAGNOSING A DISCOVERY FUEL LEVEL ISSUE • Lewis Thomas tracks down the culprit when a D3’s fuel gauge shows the tank permanently empty

REPLACING AN AIR SUSPENSION SPRING • Renewing an L322 suspension strut is a relatively straightforward job, as Dave Barker explains

TORQUE BACK

2006 DISCOVERY 3 TDV8