What on earth is this, Lemförder?

What on earth has this part to do with my Land rover life? Well, a couple of months ago we bought an old Opel Vectra (probably called something else in Britain). It is a little bit to expensive to commute in a V8 Disco... So we bought this teen racing prep Vectra from a friend who had kept it in his garage for some years. At the MOT the guys said it was nice to see this kind of car, since they have all rusted away by now. It went through almost clean, except for this linkage.

So now when my wife commute with "Rusty", I can have Moderskeppet all by my self during the weekdays. :)