The off road kit look pretty primitive by 2008 standards, too. A big yourself deeper transverse bar protects the steering and the roof rack originally bolted through the guttering without any front or rear vertical stiffeners. They had to recreate the rack from scratch, but he’s included stiffeners, because the original racks collapsed the roofs.
Up there, forward facing fuel cans are just waiting for a big branch to tear them off, so that’s something else that was changed in later years. No wing to rack bush wires either they hadn’t been invented. Instead, huge truck mirrors are supported to sweep aside the vegetation.
And there’s one surprisingly big item missing from the spec sheet a roll cage. There was a bad roll over on the 1984 Brazil event and in subsequent years, every Camel Land Rover was fitted with a roll cage. But there wasn’t much aftermarket off roading kit in those days, anyway. Proper off road kit was almost all home made by ARC members for their trailers, or custom fabricated for the fortunate few who could afford overseas off road trips.
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