And a TD5 is already modern-ish enough, but very nice regardless! Personally, I would be at a loss working in anything built after the early 80s, so for a Defender that would be the dual-carb V8s, and 200/300 TDis.

My 1982 Range Rover has all of three fuses, so electrically I'm fine! Except the mess previous owners did to the original wiring... No idea why it is so difficult to just make your own wiring for after market accesories instead of butchering the OEM one up beyond recognition. It works, so I don't touch it. I have no idea why it works so...

Yeah I don't touch anything in the box beneath the passenger front seat ;) The previous owner thankfully already fixed the "oil creeps up the wires" issue, so I can leave it. Nothing I'm too keen on, but simple enough I figure.

> I have no idea why it works so...

I know that feeling haha. Adding wiring is so much easier than ripping up existing stuff ...

When a mechanic from Land Rover saw the wiring, he said something along the lines of "just fault location would be 2k, none of the colors I see should be there". A mess... But hey, the 80s and 90s were a wild time, and it is rust free!