http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6BEshgVhJQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TXg6UlwpDc&feature=related

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1977 300d 70k--sold 08
1985 300TD 185k+
1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03
1985 409d 65k--sold 06
1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car
1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11
1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper
1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4
1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13

I took a 4 door LR station wagon from England to Australia in 1973. Myself and 5 passengers went from England, around Europe, across Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, to India where we shipped to Malaysia, and then down to Singapore. There we spent a month waiting for the ship to Australia. After a year in Perth we went back out, sans LR, to tour SE Asia and ended up going by plane back through India, Russia, England, Belgium, the back to the States, down to Texas to see my brother get married, out through SF to Hawaii, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Viet Nam, Laos, Burma, Thailand, and then back to Perth.

I basically started out in 1970 to spend 4 months riding a BMW bike around Europe and ended up spending 20 years on the road overseas. A good time was had by all.

ps. The LR is a crap vehicle off road. At that time it didn't have a locking differential so getting stuck in a river was dead easy. I have a number of pictures of me getting pulled out of mud holes by water buffalo. The engine is difficult to work on. Fortunately parts are easy to come by in Asia, but I think any modern fwd could do a better job than a LR.