Blog Intro - My Story

My story of how I have dedicated the last 15 years of my life to all things Landrover.

After rebuilding my first Landrover, a 1966 Series 2a 88" in 1993, I started seeing Landrovers all over the place. I met a whole bunch of great new people who either had a Landrover or had a great story about one they used to own. I soon became President of the very successful Landrover enthusiasts group, the Rover-Landers of British Columbia. I have met so many wonderful people over the years and been on some amazing adventures throughout the Province.

During this time, I was still trying to establish what I was going to do with my life. After completing a two year Forestry Diploma at BCIT, I couldn’t seem to find a job in the suffering forest industry, so I turned to my enthusiasm with Landrovers. I spent a couple years in Whistler as a tour guide driving and fixing, you guessed it, a whole fleet of Landrovers. As guiding wasn’t exactly a promising career, I came back home and started using all the skills I had learned from fixing my own Landrover, to help others with theirs. I took on a few bigger projects and with the help of some local parts suppliers I was servicing a whole bunch of old Landrover in no time.

It became obvious this was what I wanted to do, but I needed the proper training and experience before I could establish myself as an impendent Landrover specialist. After a stint as a parts person for Landrover of Richmond, I started the Automotive Service Technician Co-op Diploma program at BCIT. During this two year course I had 10 months hands on experience in the Landrover Service department at MCL Motor Cars, the Landrover Dealer in Downtown Vancouver. Upon graduation, I continued with MCL for four more years in which time I completed my Apprenticeship and obtained all the Landrover Factory training that was available.

When the opportunity became available to live my dream and run my own Landrover Specialist Business, I did not hesitate and within two years, I have established my new business, Rover Tech Automotive Ltd, as a quality independent Landrover specialist providing personal & honest Landrover service and parts.

This is my Blog to share with you some of the up and downs and ins and outs of some of the projects we have taken on or are currently working on, here at the shop.

Please enjoy responsibly and thanks for reading.

Yours truly,
Don MacDonald