We’ve reached a milestone with our Range Rover restoration project: the frame is now in primer. This was a long journey that started by getting the body off the frame, removing the entire driveline, and stripping it down to just the welded steel essentials. Once everything was off, we were
The latest video installment of Project Sunny, our classic Range Rover restoration, covers a lot of ground. In the months since we last shot a video, the truck has gone from its body cart to a rotisserie. At this point, the body is stripped down to just its shell. There
The winter holiday season can be a tough time to pull away from family to work on personal projects. Unless, that is, your project lives at work. When the normal workflow falls apart with everyone’s vacation schedule, there’s usually a little spare time to sneak away to the shop. I
In our last installment, we took the engine and transmission out of the Range Rover’s chassis and separated the two. For now, the transmission is sitting on the floor, but we did mount the engine to a proper stand. Over the course of a couple weekends, we’ve now stripped the
Winter is fast approaching, and that means only one thing. No, not Christmas shopping, though come to think of it, I should probably add that to the list. I was actually referring to the slate of projects I plan to tackle during the months without car shows and other events.
Over the last month or so, we’ve been busy peeling off the components attached to the rusty chassis of our 1993 Range Rover project. And we know, from a distance, this thing looks pretty bad. But the further we dig in, the more we’re surprised by just how solid the
A particular challenge of restoring a less-then-common vehicle is that not every worn-out part can be ordered from a catalog. Sometimes you need to hold onto your old parts for reference so you can re-make them yourself later. That’s the case with the original steel fuel lines and brake lines
Every project seems to eventually reach some insurmountable obstacle. For our Range Rover restoration project, the hurdle we couldn’t seem to jump was getting the body off the frame. Not that we didn’t know how; it was a matter of figuring out what we were going to with the body
Do the job right! That’s been Eastwood’s motto for a long time. Taking that motto to heart, I couldn’t walk away from the previous episode of Project Sunny feeling right. Sure, I got the two pieces of the floor stitched together into one piece, but I wasn’t happy with how
