turning a freelander into a trailer

And you mate ... still pop into looneyzone occasionally but finding time is biggest problem and when I get a spare bit Im normally out rescuing the tatter boys

GrumpyGel said:

Is that your coming out speech?

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Feel like weight has been lifted from my shoulders!!

Ding dong looneyzoners

Resurrecting this yet again ... health wealth and family all took over so hopefully getting on with this again soon ..think I've got all the sh1te I need to at least make this into something respectable and worth towing ...

Loads to do so very far from a finished project still 4" too high as sat on cribbing .. big daft white bit on back will be lost ... hopefully when done will all be painted to match new colours on freelander

Would it make sense to take something like an old caravan chassis and put the back of the Freelander body onto it?
That way you have all the legal stuff as far as brakes are concerned sorted before you start and the Freelander body with all the heavy suspension bits removed would be much lighter too.

Edit, Oops, I just looked through your photos and I see you're already doing that.
Good luck with it.

Yes mate .. this will hopefully have decent off road ability so built on modern widetrack equivalent and plated at 1350kg .. caravan chassis would be fine for road use

Looks good - the body could be channelled over the trailer chassis to drop it a little further down to match the Hippo towing it?

A bit more "choppy choppy"...

Choppy choppy not really started yet ... hopefully this weekend

barnzy said:

hi there ,my old mans freelander died and i decided im going to turn it into a trailer,i cnt decide roof on or roof choped off,im going to split it where the front and rear doors meet and plate up the front and make an a frame ideas on a postcard pls

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Keep it on. It helps keeping stuff you put into the "Freelander-Trailer" dry from wet weather as well as security. If you are the sort who goes camping, the trailer could act like a micro caravan, to sleep in.

Plus it would look cool. I've seen Defender and Discovery turned into a trailer, and those would keep the roof on. So just go for it, it would be more recognised as a Freelander.

I’m looking forward to see how this develops. Getting the front end looking right is the challenge. Is that what the other blue rear end is for?