In The Beginning

In the beginning, I pulled apart what was a rolling pickup truck. Like every other Land Rover from before 1985, when I found it it had been sitting in a field. I think that's somewhat of a requirement, isn't it? If your truck hasn't been parked up for a decade or more after a life of hard use, then it doesn't really qualify.

Well, Duffy qualifies. He (it?) suffered a number of indignities in his (its?) life. I've been told that it's variously been a mining truck used by a prospector, a farm vehicle, and a project. The previous owner is a relative who'd had the truck gifted to him as a project vehicle from Dendy Orchards cherry farm in South Kelowna. What it had done before then is a mystery.

It's certain the vehicle led a hard life of work. It was absolutely a useful tool. 

Was your land rover painted with house paint? Mine was. 

The vehicle looks to originally have been painted AA Yellow.

It took me several years to fully strip the vehicle. Like many projects, I worked on it when I had inclination and time. The restoration proper started in 2019.