News & Current Events
Recent changes to the site. Latest change 1 March '10. Island drive.
We're considering an off-road drive for March, maybe combined with a coffee. Details to be announced. If you have any requests or ideas, please contact Greg (me).
Report to Rover Lander of B.C. AGM. Vancouver Island members activities during the last year.
Vancouver Island 2009 Report to The Rover Landers of BC 2010 Annual General Meeting.
The Rover Landers are represented on Vancouver Island by 12 members, driving Range Rovers, Discoveries, Defenders and Series vehicles. We've only had a couple of Coffee nights this year but got together on three runs; a spring run on Hill 60 with some members of an Island Toyota club; a convoy in October to Green Mountain and a late December drive to the north side of Hill 60 and the Chemainus River.
Island members represented the club at some All British Field Meets on the Island and at some off-island events like The Solihull Society National Rally in Colorado, the ABFM at Portland, Oregon and the North West Challenge in Oregon. The big event for the year was in June; the two day Land Rover Rally in Duncan saw 25 Land Rovers attend with most of the Rover Landers island members, and a few from the mainland, present.
Greg Sutfin
Rover Landers of BC Vancouver Island representative
New story under "Articles" "New years day outing 2010"
Christmas weekend drive.
We had a very nice drive on a beautiful, sunny day. Check out the story in the "Events" section and photos in the "Photos" gallery. Greg S
Installation Maual for the Torrel Disk Brake kit for Series Land Rovers. See the "Technical info" section.
Installation and User's Maual for the Fairey Overdrive. See the "Technical info" section.
In the technical info section is a link to a distributor rebuild article and a long (2.35 mb) pdf file in the form of a Service Bulletin from Zenith for the IV series of carb.
I've renamed the "Info" section to "Technical Info" to better represent what is there. To that end, I moved some items from "Articles" into the "Technical Info" section.
In the "Events" section is a long version of a trip to the 2009 Solihull Society National Rally in Leadville, Colorado. Trip made by Greg and Jared Sutfin in a 1970 Land Rover 109 station wagon.
Photos uploaded to Flickr and can be seen in the 2009 "Collection" in the Solihull Society National Rally 09 "Set"
Photos also added of the October trip to Green Mountain and Nanaimo Lakes. See the 2009 "Collection" under the "Photos" tab and open the Outings 2009 "Set".
A Land Rover Corporate environmental initiative.
Call it advertising if you want, but give it a look. I't's worth your 5 minutes to watch it and learn a bit of Land Rovers commitment to the environment and know they are doing other things to be brought out in the future to improve the product line, environmentally. Youtube video
Flickr Photo Album
The photo gallery regularly gets additions and changes. Feel free to send me photos you want loaded. (In order to avoid clogging my inbox, please keep the files under 200k each, and send no more than five pictures at a time.) Thanks!
There are two forums, one under the "Yahoo Group" tab will link you to the VanIsle Land Rover Network Group at Yahoo. If you are already a Yahoo member, just add us to your "groups". To post in this group, you must join through your Yahoo membership. This is necessary to limit the spam and trash that almost closed this forum for us in the past. Diligence by an administrator is working well at keeping spam away. Thank you Ross. The other forum is accessed through the "Forum" tab, which links to the Rover-Landers of BC, Vancouver Island regional discussion subforum. Again, to post, you need to join the Rover-Lander forum site. By clicking on the "RoverLanders of BC Forum Index" link just above the thick blue line on the top of that page, you'll be taken to the RoverLanders main discussion Index.
Wheel Wisely, and Tread Lightly. Greg Sutfin