for a lada saloon
 

This is what I did to the lada 2104 when riding around Central Asia:
- Zebra skin interior
- disco ball
- radio built in cup board
- push button starter
- red leather gaiter for the shift stick
- red racing knob on the shift stick
- pink interior lighting
- manual switching of the fan
- ditched the rear seat
- painted the sump red so it's easier to see for 'marshal' when it will hit something

All worked very well. We did about 20k km, and didn't have a single failure.

Here it was rocky:
YouTube - Descending mount ararat

and this is only a few of 1000's km Kazakh highway:
YouTube - Kazakhstan Highway
YouTube - Along the Syrdaria

The lights:
Kitch on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Skins:
IMG_0110 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Dash:
IMG_0578 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

;-)

No fluffy dice on the rear view mirror robbert? I can't believe you made it without them!

Anyway, here is a pic of a bashplate I added to a 2CV for marocco:
http://radiobaobab.be/assets/etogal/516/mar0809-079.jpg

Runs underneath the sump and the exhaust. Just bolted them on where I could. 3mm aluminium. Only change made.

Hi all, I am new here and I have never been to Africa, but euhm an automatic beamer does not sound like the best choice for an overlander..

I have travelled all over Australia in an automatic and was warned on more than one occasion not to take it too far from civilisation, because we wouldn't be able to jumpstart it in case the battery would die on us.

Oh, I just reread your post and you are leavin about now anyway. Have fun on your trip, you should be allright.