Hi everyone,
I've been reading a lot of threads on this forum, and I finally have something to share myself!
For the past few years my girlfriend and I travelled to different countries in Asia, the Middle East, Africa & South America. Most of the time we rented low-budget compact cars and drove around and found ourself stuck many times in sand, mud and more. It was time for a real car, but we've never owned a car before.
After looking online for months we finally found her: a '98 Land Rover Defender 110 with a 300tdi motor. It was sold in Germany and imported to the Netherlands in the early '00's, where it was transformed into an expedition vehicle with Tanzania as home base. When we bought it, it already had a Hannibal roofrack & rooftoptent, and still had the original 9 seats in it.
We call her Landy, and often encourage her to go a little bit faster: Go Landy! Here she is just after we bought her last year.
![defenderfotokopie-2.jpg defenderfotokopie-2.jpg](https://expeditionportal.com/forum/data/attachments/339/339809-137f7802ce6f107ed46fffabb483bc77.jpg)
Obviously a Defender like this is way to big for cities & towns in the Netherlands; so as we speak we've both quit our jobs and from May '18 we will travel through Eastern Europe, Russia, Mongolia & Central Asia, we have no clear final destination; we'll see where we'll end up.
For this overland-trip we want to prep both the interior as the exterior. We could use some protection (diff guards, steering guard), snorkel, household battery, inverter. Landy needs new shocks, and some minor repairs. We would also like to remove all the seats and build enough storage space for our trip.
We live in the city center and unfortunately don't have access to a garage, proper tools, nor do we have any experience with cars. But we are confident we can do this, in this thread I'll document all the updates & changes we're about to make to Landy.
![20953557_10212017008412188_2305728085358353445_n.jpg 20953557_10212017008412188_2305728085358353445_n.jpg](https://expeditionportal.com/forum/data/attachments/339/339810-fb88fffa97fc0ac33fb1be58fe582be7.jpg)
Last summer we did our first shakedown trip in the Balkan / former Yugoslavia. We travelled over 5000 miles is 5 weeks through Bosnia, Albania, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovenia and Montenegro. We camped in the wild; on beaches, ski-pistes and more. Our only problem was a broken brake disc guard, so we where quite happy as you can see
.
More about the rebuild later this week! Or check out our instagram for photos from our trips: instagram.com/golandy
I've been reading a lot of threads on this forum, and I finally have something to share myself!
For the past few years my girlfriend and I travelled to different countries in Asia, the Middle East, Africa & South America. Most of the time we rented low-budget compact cars and drove around and found ourself stuck many times in sand, mud and more. It was time for a real car, but we've never owned a car before.
After looking online for months we finally found her: a '98 Land Rover Defender 110 with a 300tdi motor. It was sold in Germany and imported to the Netherlands in the early '00's, where it was transformed into an expedition vehicle with Tanzania as home base. When we bought it, it already had a Hannibal roofrack & rooftoptent, and still had the original 9 seats in it.
We call her Landy, and often encourage her to go a little bit faster: Go Landy! Here she is just after we bought her last year.
![defenderfotokopie-2.jpg defenderfotokopie-2.jpg](https://expeditionportal.com/forum/data/attachments/339/339809-137f7802ce6f107ed46fffabb483bc77.jpg)
Obviously a Defender like this is way to big for cities & towns in the Netherlands; so as we speak we've both quit our jobs and from May '18 we will travel through Eastern Europe, Russia, Mongolia & Central Asia, we have no clear final destination; we'll see where we'll end up.
For this overland-trip we want to prep both the interior as the exterior. We could use some protection (diff guards, steering guard), snorkel, household battery, inverter. Landy needs new shocks, and some minor repairs. We would also like to remove all the seats and build enough storage space for our trip.
We live in the city center and unfortunately don't have access to a garage, proper tools, nor do we have any experience with cars. But we are confident we can do this, in this thread I'll document all the updates & changes we're about to make to Landy.
![20953557_10212017008412188_2305728085358353445_n.jpg 20953557_10212017008412188_2305728085358353445_n.jpg](https://expeditionportal.com/forum/data/attachments/339/339810-fb88fffa97fc0ac33fb1be58fe582be7.jpg)
Last summer we did our first shakedown trip in the Balkan / former Yugoslavia. We travelled over 5000 miles is 5 weeks through Bosnia, Albania, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovenia and Montenegro. We camped in the wild; on beaches, ski-pistes and more. Our only problem was a broken brake disc guard, so we where quite happy as you can see
More about the rebuild later this week! Or check out our instagram for photos from our trips: instagram.com/golandy
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