The beginning

On the 9th August 2014 I secured a light blue 1995 Defender 90 with the obligatory white roof.  It had a 300TDI engine and was a station wagon variant on an 'N' plate with 177k on the clock.  Well when I say light blue, it also has 1 dark blue and 1 grey wing,  Epson green side window panels along with a red bonnet.
It it arrived with 8 months MOT and 10 months Road Fund Licence.

I purchased it from a very nice guy who had owned it for the last 9 years and maintained it well, even if the body work looked like Jason's coat of many colours.

The specification from front to back was:
Outside

• Superwinch Husky 10 with rope
• Tow rope the shackle and hook
• Winch bumper
• HID lights
• Replacement light surrounds
• Replacement front grill
• Black wing top checker plates
• Silver bonnet checker plate
• Front chassis mounted jate rings
• 2" lift
• Polybush extended bump stops
• Snorkel
• Full external cage
• Four roof mounted light with daylight running rings
• Twin CD aerials
• Rock sliders with checker plate
• Checker plate on door bottoms
• Late 90 side windows
• Two waffle boards in customer roof mounted carriers
• Checker plate on lower rear wings
• Checker plate rear door panel
• RDX clear rear lights
• Tube rear bumper
• Adjustable tow bar
• Scorpion swing out rear tyre carrier
• 5' Hi-Lift jack
• BF Goodrich AT spare tyre, brand new

Inside

• Sound proof floor matting in cab
• Sony Ericsson Bluetooth phone kit with remote screen and controller
• RDX blue aluminium dash board and instrument cover plates
• Alpine CD radio with aux input
• CB radio
• Lasalle Insulated roof, no roof liner
• Recovered standard seats Exmoor trimmed in techno, which are immaculate
• Waterproof seat covers
• Drivers seat modified rails to allow it to move back an additional 2"
• Simmonites security cubby box with black leather padded top
• Cut reinforcement plate
• Checker plates in rear over sound proofing
• 2 off Exmoor Trim forward facing high back rear seats trimmed in techno
• Exmoor inertia 3 point harnesses
• Exmoor harness mounting brackets

Engine and running gear

• Kenlow electric fan
• Cam belt extended breather pipe
• Silicon hoses
• Reworked head
• Front silver steel modular wheels
• Front BF Goodrich AT tyres, 50% worn
• Front axle extended breather pipe
• Cranked Polybushes on front arms
• Twin batteries
• Split charger
• New Borg & Beck clutch
• Ashcroft reconditioned gearbox with 2:1 5th gear
• Extended gearbox breather pipe
• Reconditioned transfer box
• Extended rear axle breather pipe
• Rear silver modular steel wheels
• Rear BF Goodrich AT Tyres, 25% worn

Security:

• Claw peddle lock

Spares included:

• TD5 clocks registering 65000 miles
• Gearbox electronic speed sensor for the TD5 clocks
• 4 sets of drive shaft couplings
• Remainder of the polybush kit
• Cylinder head gasket
• Belts
• Hoses
• Filters
• Tow rope braiding tool
• Manuals
• and a bunch of other bits which I have not got to the bottom of yet .........

Bad bits found, so far:

• Large hole in drivers foot well
• Small hole in passenger foot well
• Front OSF outrigger has a bit of rust on the bottom, nothing serious
• Mark on on the top of the OSF swivel joint at the top which is weeping a bit of oil
• A bit of oil around the transfer and gearbox, well it is a Land Rover and it proves there is/was some in there
• Oil leak from the steering box
• to be updated ..............