Dear Rovers North, Let me say how good it was to see your ad in the last Rovers North News on your Fleet Systems. Their legendary ability is so true. If one gets to a place where mobility is key, then Land Rover is your answer. All the places that need relief or peacekeeping are [...]

text: Les and Annie Parker / photos: Don Flye [Les Parker, S. Burlington, VT, is a familiar name to Rovers North customers. He and his wife Annie traveled to Petersham, MA, last September in typical British weather for a classic Land Rover event –ed.] In its six year history, Don Flye’s All Metal Dash weekend [...]

Although much of the US lay buried in unexpected snow, the mail boat still arrived on the island with bags of entries for this contest. The good news was that everyone at the local post office thought I had a lot of friends; the bad news was that I had a lot of work to [...]

UPS shipments on this island start with a local family unloading boxes from the big brown truck onto their front lawn. The UPS truck returns to the mainland and the family parcels out packages to other family members for eventual delivery. So it wasn’t surprising when a woman flagged me down on the road and [...]

A Defender 110 can make a great traveling companion and mobile home. While trekking across the USA in 2007, this UK traveler stopped in for some important repairs to his Defender 110. A stop in Vermont at Rovers North made sure this happened. After all was complete, the UK gentleman and his Defender 110 were [...]

Imagine our dropped jaw look as this really neat and unique Land Rover Discovery II pulled up to Rovers North in the middle of winter 2003! Just dropping in to say “hi” the owner and wife were traveling the USA from Switzerland and were magically attracted to Northern Vermont. The all aluminum hand-crafted custom roof [...]

Look for a new category called “Travelers to Rovers North” where we’ll be filling up the photos. Occasionally we have weary Land Rover travelers drop in for a visit on a worldly trek for a quick chat, a tune-up to their Land Rover, pick up some Genuine Land Rover Parts or just to offer a [...]

Dear Rovers North, A few weeks ago, I emailed regarding oil usage on a ’04 Discovery Series II. I was using 3.5 quarts every 6,000 miles without blue smoke, etc. I believe that I have finally found the issue. After looking inside the air intake with the butterfly flap open, I noticed dark oil residue [...]

What, where, and when was your first Land Rover experience? That is a tough one. The hoop set on my dad’s 109 was my first jungle gym. Throughout my childhood my parents exclusively drove Land Rovers so I have no conscious beginning to my Land Rover interest. Actually, my mom had a Triumph for a [...]

Story by: Calef Letorney Photo by: Matt Martin In the Spring 2008 issue of The News, Michael Koch educated us on the brief history of Land Rover Classic Parts (LRCP). Michael also explained how Rovers North bought out a large portion of the LRCP inventory carrying on the Classic Parts Legacy here in North America. [...]