Land Rover Monthly

A busy life

IT was a quick dash home to write this month’s column. It’s a hectic time as we make ‘Oliver and Dobson’ a reality. The build arrived last week, it is a 1960’s Series IIA 88in. Having worked on several of these over the years I feel pretty confident I know what I am doing, but there is still some trepidation when a new project arrives. Save for some photographs, this one was bought sight unseen so it was a bit of a gamble.

The bodywork is pretty beaten up (it looked fairly

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