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  • September 2012: My Favourite Car Comes with Push-Button Start!
    September 1, 2012

    September 2012: My Favourite Car Comes with Push-Button Start!

    Old things are new again. That's what goes through my mind every time I see a car commercial showing off the new "Push to Start" button. Yes, there are some great electronic security systems behind that simple, made of plastic, backlit by LED's, "Push to Start" button, (read "more things that can go wrong"), and to most new drivers, it appears to be new and cool.
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  • October, 2011: A Rustic Rover Resting in the Woods!
    October 1, 2011

    October, 2011: A Rustic Rover Resting in the Woods!

    Just before the snow started to fly here in south-western Ontario, Rich and Peter took a drive up to the Goderich area to check out a Series Pick-up that was abandoned in the woods for well over twenty-five years. Our real reason for going there  was to pick-up a trailer that was made from the rear tub of a 109.
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  • August, 2010: That Series, (serious), Nagging Attraction
    August 1, 2010

    August, 2010: That Series, (serious), Nagging Attraction

    Well, we couldn't let a summer go by without bringing home something of interest.

    My wife Donna and I made a trip to the Ottawa area to take a look at a 1967 Series 2a 5-Door 109 Station Wagon. A few weeks earlier, I had emailed and called in response to a Kijiji ad for the truck. It wasn't that we needed another project, or another parts truck sitting outside of one of our shops; but there is this attraction. A nagging attraction... 

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  • April 2010: Zen and the Art of Land Rover Rebuilding
    April 1, 2010

    April 2010: Zen and the Art of Land Rover Rebuilding

    I'm not sure if there is anything 'Zen-like' about re-building a Series Land Rover... Perhaps it's more a fluctuating state between excitement and despair. I'm not sure that I've ever experienced that altered state of consciousness that could be described as Zen, but I have a sneaking suspicion that it is rarely associated with the mechanical aspects of a Land Rover.
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