LANDROVER MONTHLY 71
HIRTYYEARS ago, the newly-launched
iscoverywas Europe’s best-selling 4x4
nd profitable enough to secure the future
f LandRover. Thanks to its bulletproof
di engines, practicality and good looks it
old like hot cakes and the love affair
ontinued for more than a decade – until
he early models began succumbing to
erminal rust.
The original Disco had been cobbled
together on a low budget, using Range Rover chassis and
running gear. Corrosionresistancewas very low on the priority
list – and it showed. Thesteel bodywork just crumbledaway.
Most were scrapped and their Tdis salvaged to power
What doyou do with a rusty
Discovery 1?Turn it into an
Aussie-inspired ute, of course...
Defenders and other LandRover models. What else canyou do
with a rusty Discovery?
Well, actually, quite a bit.Yo u can turn them into anAussie-
inspired ute, forexample. And beforeyou ask, a ‘ute’ is short for
‘utility’, which is what folk DownUnder call flatbed pick-ups.
Just like the one on these pages.
Its creator is Michal Ciepacz, 30, from Longforgan, near
Dundee in Scotland. Originally fromPoland, he first came to
Scotland in 2007 as a teenager to earn someextra money picking
soft fruit.Hereturned ayear later andstayedever since.Heis a
sprayer operator on the same farm where hestartedwork back
at the age of 18 and where they growstrawberries, blueberries
and blackberries, plus a few cattle.
“I am not married butmygirlfriend of tenyears and I havea