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It's by the seaside, as with that shape it can double as an boat when flipped upside down

I came across some video of it in the flesh but standing still. It also has active wheel flares.

Here in the Netherlands it has now become more difficult to get a Dutch license plate for an imported car. As they now no longer copy the type approval, which means the car has to get an individual type approval, which means a lot of test which cost a whole lot of money. Not sure if it's the same case for Belgium plates.

It indeed is, at least here you know everything that is posted on the national market place is a maximum of a 2 hours drive away. Beautiful picture on the road, looks like it was a nice day for a drive!

We use powercon alot in our industry, and it you buy the True1 TOP version (full black one) it is IP65 rated. (They are designed normally for 16A 220V) You can also buy rubber cover for the panelmount, but they also have spring-loaded latches you can mount over them. Which is what I used on my bumper for the winch controller, which kept it dry even after being submerged in mud. Sealing latch Found some pictures of what I used: Was really impressed with for being just a springloaded latch Otherwise would suggest a Deutsch connector, there are panel mount receptacles for them.

My plans for 2024 are to put more focus on the Land Rover and associated projects as it has been all over the place before. So the projects are: Getting the 90 through MOT Build a cubby box Build a roofrack Design a trailer to go along with it Be more active here

I agree on that, but if they where made by the same person who did the lift, I do not have my hopes up that they will be decent ones

This car comes up for sale about once a year on the dutch version of Ebay: https://www.marktplaats.nl/v/auto-s/land-rover/m1992056076-land-rover-109-pick-up-v8 It seems to be just hopping from garage to garage, which is not surprising for the amount of jankines and identity crisis you can get for only €22.750!

A mate of mine who dropped out of engineering school has gone for the personal solidworks license, will ask how his experience is so far. I've tried a couple of CAD packages, manly freecad, Fusion 360, Inventor and Solidworks (which I use professionally). Freecad and Fusion I discarded as I just couldn't get my head around it. Inventor I could work with, but the list of (personal) negatives was quite a bit longer than the positives. So I would definitely try the personal Solidworks license, but it van very much be a personal preference thing

To be fair I feel like this gives a bit of a skewed view of it, in favor of the Defender. The structure of the truck cab got loaded in the worst possible way (perpendicular to its A pillar, from right to left.) While the structure of the Defender got loaded as favorable as possible ( right on the node between the A pillar and the roof, giving the Defender the ability to dissipate the stresses lengthwise into the roof as well as right down into the A pillar) Still not bad on the Defenders part

G-mouse dongle will most likely be an U-Blox chip for the receiver. So I'd have a look at their site: www.u-blox.com To validate if it's working/receiving signal you can use U centre: https://www.u-blox.com/en/product/u-center I believe that also where you can get drivers from, but not sure about XP drivers. When checking if it's working, make sure it has an clear view of the sky. Once I was trying to get one to work for 2 hours, only to have it work immediately when I put it near a window.

In the same boot, I love the idea, hate the look. I really like the concept of having it with a flat tray and then being able to swap (with a forklift or the like) other modules on the rear. Not sure what they would contain, but it's in the back of my mind.

I'm sort of having the same plan/idea, al be it with a Dell Latitude 7202 Tablet (which has got an build in GPS). But I also want to incorporate it into my 90 as means of using it (also) for navigation. I did some research into possible software solutions, and most info I came across on using a PC for navigation is quite dated. As far as I could find I could find 2 programs (maybe 3) which could be suitable. The first one would be Quovadis GPS (https://quovadis-gps.com/en/) It is paid software, and the basic version doesn't support live gps input as far as I can tell. It has a demo version that you can try which has all the features enabled for 25 days, so you can try if you can get it to work with your GPS (dongle or build in, as long as it puts out an NMEA stream) I'm testing it now having it beside me on my daily commute and it seems to work well. The other option would be Viking GPS (https://sourceforge.net/projects/viking/) This one is free, but as far as I can tell this one isn't really designed for use as an navigation tool, but more as a planning tool. However you can add a GPS layer which can display your location on the map and track you, but it looks to be more of an afterthought/niche feature. There is a windows version of it, but it looks like it's primarily OS is Linux. What this means is that the GPS input of the program is focused on a Linux solution, which is a GPSD server that can run localy. However, GPSD server is Linux only. So you or would need to install a Linux OS on it, or (and I have tested it and it worked) have an other PC/Laptop whatever connected to your tablet via a network connection. Then in viking you can change the IP from the local on to the one of the PC running Linux and have Viking read the GPS data from the server on the other machine. This was going to be my approach, as I was already thinking about of adding a Raspberry Pi in the 90. But discovering the ability to use the build-in GPS receiver off the Dell made me reconsider and now thinking of staying with that, but not sure if I'm going to make the change over to Viking. (third option, which I know exists, but the program and all it's information looked pretty dated) OZiTracker looks like it used to be the go to application, but it looked quite old. I've dowloaded it and opened it once, but didn't take it any further than that as I found out about Quovadis at that point. Now, there is also the thing about that you'll be needing (offline) maps. In Quovadis X you can offcourse buy them, and Viking as it is more of a planning program will fetch them online as you need them, which off course won't work for our off road use case where we might not have internet (or download a lot of data abroad) A way around this that I've found is using MOBAC (MOBile Atlas Creator, https://mobac.sourceforge.io) This a program that can convert one of it's Atlas sources to a format you can store locally and take offline. The sources that might be mostly usefull that can be found in MOBAC are 4U topo maps (https://www.4umaps.com/online-outdoor-hike-bicycle-map.aspx) or OpenTopoMap (https://opentopomap.org/#map=8/45.7119/4.7021) Saving them as an Atlas in MBTiles format will give you a file that can be imported in both Quovadis X and Viking GPS. That's about all the information I could find about it and have (al be it very little) experience with. Hope it can be of some help. And If anybody has any other suggestions for the (navigation) software I'd love to hear it as well. Weasel