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3 Great British Land Rover Show returns with record turnout he Great British Land Rover Show, at Stoneleigh in Warwickshire, took place on Sunday 21 November. And after missing out last year when the second round of restrictions came into force, the annual indoor event was back with a bang.

Timed perfectly for the Christmas market, the show has become recognised as the final flourish in the annual Land Rover calendar. It has traditionally pulled in bumper crowds – but this year, thanks perhaps to pent-up demand following the restrictions that have blighted all our lives since the start of the pandemic, more visitors than ever made the trip to Stoneleigh.

Once again sponsored by BFGoodrich, with support from Terrafirma, Paddock Spares and the All Wheel Drive Club, for the first time ever the show featured a driving course set out by the Land Rover Experience. Transforming an apron next to the main entrance to Stoneleigh’s show halls, this featured a man-made hill, side-slope and axle-twister which demonstrated the abilities of the Discoverys and Defenders in which visitors could take passenger rides alongside the Experience’s instructors.

With a best-ever attendance leading to a lengthy queue at the doors, the Driving Experience provided plenty of entertainment for onlookers. And this soon meant another big queue as visitors waited to climb aboard and see for themselves what it was all about.

For those bringing their own vehicles, the All Wheel Drive Club was once again running the off-road course in the woods at the edge of the show-

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It was also notable how many of the vehicles taking part were ‘new generation’ Land Rovers with independent suspension and Terrain Response.

Old-school Defenders and Discoverys were perhaps still just about in the lead in terms of numbers but Disco 3/4s, L322s, Range Rover Sports and new Defenders were a common sight too. Interestingly, the marshals reported that most of these vehicles’ drivers were struggling on hills because of not using enough gas – a sign that they had learned how to drive on traditional Land Rovers and were needing to unlearn their old habits in order to get the best from the new breed.

Inside the exhibition halls, meanwhile, big crowds ensured that the traders had a busy time of it. All commented that for business and networking alike, it had been a huge success, with Martin Thompson of Headline Sponsor BFGoodrich summing it up: ‘The Great British Land Rover Show is always a big success for us, and this year it has been better than ever.

We’ve had a very busy day and done great business – and I’m pleased to say that we’ll be continuing as Headline Sponsors again in 2022.’

Speaking for the show’s organisers, Managing Director Sarah Moss said: ‘We were absolutely delighted to see the Land Rover community out in force at the Great British Land Rover Show on Sunday 21 November. It’s been a frustrating two years since the event was last permitted to take place due

to the restrictions on indoor events, but it was clear that both exhibitors and visitors alike were raring to get back to it and we hope that the Show will continue to thrive and grow in size going forward.’

The organisers are already working on a new springtime version of the Great British Land Rover Show, which is planned for 1 May at Newark Showground. And the show will be returning to Stoneleigh once again next November – you can keep up to date with all the organisers’ plans at greatbritishlrshow.com.

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As if to emphasise the galloping This was notable not just for its value of Defenders, the only Range excellent condition – but for the astonRover in the sale, a restored 68,0000ishingly low reading on its odometer. mile two-door from 1981 which featured Having covered less than 700 (yes, in the Range Rover 50th anniversary seven hundred) miles in its life, this celebration and Land Rover 70th must surely have been the nearest birthday parade at Goodwood, only thing left to a new Tdi. fetched £31,000. And the two Series Bidding on the Defender started with Is, a 24,572-mile 86” fresh from a nuttwo commission bids of £10,000 locked and-bolt restoration and a three-owner together – prompting the auctioneer 80” from 1949, only made £20,500 to comment that he hoped someone and £28,000. Still strong money, but would take the price higher to avoid a eclipsed by the values being achieved stalemate. He needn’t have worried. As even by fairly run of the mill Pumas. the auction opened up to online bids, One Defender that didn’t sell on there were audible gasps as the price the day, however, was a 1998 50th jumped instantly to £25,000.

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Land Rover drivers targeted by defamatory abuse in campaign to close Essex right of way T he sort of abuse that’s meted out to Land Rover owners who use public rights of way was graphically illustrated recently by a series of events surrounding a Byway Open to All Traffic at Little Waltham in Essex.

The lane goes through a ford, which was illegally blocked by a hedge.

The trouble started when a driver tried to exercise his right to use the lane by removing the obstruction. This meant cutting part of the hedge down.

In response, a storm of allegations began to appear on social media – followed by home-made signs on the lane itself claiming that the Green Lane Association was intending to use it for motor racing. This is absurd if you know anything of the facts, but the notices also encouraged local residents to sign a petition against the (fictitious) activity.

‘GLASS contacted those concerned in doing this and gave them seven days to remove the signs and issue a retraction,’ says Essex Rep Rob Tongue.

‘Change.org, where the petition was hosted, was also contacted and duly removed our name mentioned in it.’

That dealt with part of the problem, however the lane remains a bone of serious contention. ‘The landowner applied for an emergency closure for 21 days on the grounds of flooding and debris,’ continues Rob, ‘which was granted but not through the usual channels. Essex Public Rights of Way were totally unaware of the application, as were we, until it appeared.

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GLASS will fight this. Our intention is to get the ford fully open again and Public Rights of Way will back us.’

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‘You win some and lose some,’ says Rob. ‘This one we are determined not to lose.’

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’V V O O for making Christmas lists. When I was a kid, I would infuriate my parents on an annual basis by answering their request for gift suggestions with a pithily useless: ‘Surprises’. Dad would respond by threatenening not to buy me anything, on the basis that this would certainly meet the description of a ‘surprise’ Christmas Day experience.

But they’d usually think of something, and it usually had some connection to Land Rovers or off-roaders.

So ust in case you’re like me and don’t like to ask, here are some of my top festive gift ideas for those of a Land Rover-loving persuasion.

TOP TIP: casually leave this page open on the kitchen table for the next couple of weeks or so, and your family may find that inspiration strikes when you ask for nothing more than ‘surprises’. And if it doesn’t Well, I hope you enjoy your socks. . A subscription to The andy This comes top of the list, obviously, closely followed by another subscription to our sister title, 4x4 magazine. Where else will you find fantastic (well, reasonably adequate) writing on all things offroad and green-oval related ‘Nowhere’ is the answer, so get that subs form filled out and look forward to another year of inspiration, entertainment and all-round muddy fun.

. and Rover themed clothing from Fat Face I’ve never been a fan of logos on clothing (see my column the other month about football shirts). But Fat Face has played a blinder with its range of Landythemed clothing and accessories. Items like wallets, socks and bamboo coffee cups complement the usual T-shirts and hoodies. They’re classily put together and represent a good way of signalling your Lode Lane enthusiasm without going overboard. The kids’ range is great, too. . Exmoor Trim arris Tweed Defender seats or a tweed acket Rather a niche ask, this one, and probably only appealing if you have a Puma

Defender to fit them in (on the sub ect of which, see below) – though they’d make a great addition to a living room for roughly the same price as a decent sofa. I’ve always loved Exmoor Trim interiors, and their heated Harris Tweed seats are among the company’s very finest products.

If you don’t need the seats, ask for a Harris Tweed acket instead. It’ll no doubt last as long as a classic Land Rover and prove every bit as timeless. . irst verland ondon-Singapore by and Rover, by Tim Slessor Without doubt the finest overlanding book ever written. In 1955, Tim Slessor led the Oxford and Cambridge trip from London to Singapore in a brace of brand-new Series Ones.

The 12,000-mile journey had been attempted and failed many times before. But Slessor and his team made a triumphant entry to Singapore after months of arduous travelling. Read his stunningly understated prose and remind yourself of the spirit of derring-do at the heart of our hobby.

TOP TIP: if you like books about Land Rovers, my advice is DON’T BUY THE ONE WRITTEN BY BEN FOGLE. It’s rubbish.

. A and Rover Defender your choice of model Picture the scene. You wake in a bleary-eyed daze on a crisp winter’s morning and after a few minutes you remember that today’s the day – Christmas has finally come Staggering out of bed, you shuffle your slightly hungover way downstairs and put on the kettle. The radio blares out the usual mix of Bublé and Holder as you stir in the milk and wonder if you could get away with another snooze before putting the turkey on.

Then, drawing back the curtains, your eyes alight on something on the driveway. It’s a boxy shape, with the most distinctive silhouette of any vehicle ever made. You catch your breath as you realise there’s a bow on the bonnet and a card with your name on it.

That’s when you realise what’s happened. Your family has found the ultimate way of showing their love for you: a Land Rover Defender, neatly wrapped for Christmas.

Now that really would be a surprise So, I’m ust going to ask the Editor to send me a proof of the layout for this page so I can check it over, then wouldn’t it be unfortunate if I were to leave it lying on the kitchen table…

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weekend or so before writing this, I (and no doubt some of you too) sat watching my computer with a mixture of hope and dread as the vehicle auction at the Classic Car Show crawled its way towards the only lot I was interested in.

All the old Jags and Ferraris making huge money were leaving me cold: my eyes were fixed on the one Landy in the sale that I could see myself owning.

It was an immaculate 300Tdi 90 CSW with less than 700 (yes, seven hundred) miles on the clock. And it’s safe to say that I wasn’t the only one who registered to bid on it.

I told my wife I was limiting myself to ten grand (cue sounds of hysterical laughter from everyone reading this) and that she needn’t worry because it would make far more than that anyway.

Safe to say I was right, though I didn’t think my upper limit was going to be blown away before the bidding even started. Not to worry, the auctioneer raised an eyebrow when the online bids opened up at £25,000 too.

With the buyer’s premium included, whoever won that 90 ended up paying £ ,300 to take it home. adness Perhaps, but also perhaps not. As they say, ‘find another.’

Give or take a few quid, this is a truck whose value has gone up by 300% in just over 25 years. And if someone keeps it in the same condition for another 25, who’s to say that it won’t do the same again All the same, I kind of hope that’s not what the 90 has coming to it. Land Rovers weren’t built to be kept in garages. Perhaps don’t turn it into a trayback, but wouldn’t it be refreshing to see a Defender like this out there working for its living Yes, you’d need to be loaded to do that, and for that money you might as well be doing it in a new-shape 90 or 110. But it’s about more than ust that.

However much money they may be worth, Land Rovers are always worth even more in terms of what happens when you get behind the wheel. I really hope Mr £48,300 enjoys his new toy… the proper way.

Alan idd, roup Editor alan.kidd assignment-media.co.uk

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The latest and best kit, tools and accessories for Land Rover owners Classic Defender Alloy Wheel from Sterling Automotive promises to combine ruggedness with elegant styling T L G TO OT V ’ Classic Defender Alloy Wheel combines strength with no-nonsense rugged styling and can be had in a choice of polished black, gloss black and satin black finishes. Any colour you want, then, so long as it’s…

Suitable for Defenders made between 1990 and 2016, the wheel is an 8x17” alloy with a deeply concave design. It has a 113mm centre bore, a 5 x 165 PCD and an offset of ET10, and each unit has a maximum load of 1250kg.

The wheels are available direct from Sterling Automotive priced at £225 plus VAT per piece. You’ll find them at sterling-automotive.co.uk.

GOT A SERIES III? Britpart’s new Deluxe Grille is a great way to smarten it up. Supplied without a badge, it should cost in the region of £30-35. It’s at www.britpart.com.

ALSO FOR THE SERIES III, and also the Series II and IIA, is this 12-volt starter solenoid from Lucas Classic. It’ll cost around a tenner – once again, it’s available through Britpart dealers.

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ROAMERDRIVE IS FAMOUS for its overdrives, but Britpart dealers also stock the company’s Transfer Case Dipstick Kit for the Series I, II, IIA and III. Consisting of a dipstick tube, which screws into the level plug, and a replacement top cover with a filler plug, this allows you to check the oil level in your Land Rover’s transfer case simply by lifting out its centre seat. Expect to pay around £50 plus the dreaded.

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New Folding Car Creeper and Seat from Clarke is an end to pain in the workshop

YOU PROBABLY SPEND a lot of time crawling around under your vehicle on o i a o aa oo n the rest of it, you spend sitting on your garage door either working on your i in o a o on to your vehicle or, if you own an early an in i n o o i The Clarke CMC60 2-in-1 Folding Car Creeper and Seat from Machine a an’ o an in abo i sa o in o i i an at least allow you to concentrate on the heartache untroubled by actual physia ain o o ba an o bo a ’s b a s i as a s i bas which allows it to be converted from a o ani ’s s a o ba a ain in a a o s on s as in in o an in s a o ni no a i s a on si n on s i as o s a o in you to manoeuvre your way around underneath your vehicle without a care in o o on o s o b a i i s i ab a a nis and adjustable back and head rest, you i no o The creeper has a heavy-duty frame i a o oa nis i an be broken down in an instant allowing you to fold it up into its position as a s a is is on i o n o tools, which is ironic because this is the one time when you can be absolutely guaranteed to have them to hand, and a ain o ’ on as o s o o this time) so you can slide your way around your truck without having to a o s o o a i For such a useful bit of kit, we on in in so n s i a a o ’ n i a a in a o

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by Ford, it came to be associated with Land Rover – which over the course of almost two decades used it to promote the Defender, Range Rover, Discovery and, finally, the Freelander.

The Trophy was originally conceived as a way of bringing Camel’s cigarette adverts to life. For many years, ‘Camel Guy’ was a macho but clean-cut outdoorsman who would be pictured smoking and driving a Jeep in a wild landscape, and parent company RJ Reynolds Tobacco saw participants as a real-life embodiment of his image.

A range of adventure wear was eventually created as a way of deflecting attention from the Trophy’s connection with tobacco. But young, attractive, clean-cut people driving 4x4s in wild landscapes was always a key part of its image – the result being that it was one of the most photogenic events in the history of motoring.

Some of those pictures are at the heart of Camel Trophy: The Definitive History, by renowned author and photographer Nick Dimbleby. Already a well known name while still at university thanks to his monthly contributions to Land Rover Owner magazine, he was an official photographer on the Trophy during its last four years, from 1996-2000, before becoming one of Land Rover’s regular go-to snappers for brochures and vehicle launches.

Published by Porter Press International, this mighty 336-page hardback publication brooks no argument in its claim to be definitive. Lavishly illustrated and printed on high-quality paper (it weighs almost 2.5kg), you could ‘read’ it from cover to cover without taking in any words at all. But get into the text and it will quickly become apparent that this is no mere picture book – the breadth and depth

of the author’s knowledge and research is nothing short of formidable.

In addition to the year-by-year story of each edition of the Trophy, separate chapters go into detail about the people, the vehicles and even the trophies handed out to the winners. Intriguingly, the author also looks in great depth at the selections and infrastructure behind the scenes, as well as the pre-scouting required to create suitable routes for and event which, in its heyday, was a massive international undertaking.

The Camel Trophy was regarded with scepticism in some quarters, as any event rooted in marketing, far less marketing cigarettes, inevitably will. Whatever your view, however, the off-roading was every bit as punishing on people and vehicles alike as the iconic pictures, many of which you’ll find in this book, suggest – and the sheer effort that went into making it happen yields no end of eye-opening stories.

Camel Trophy: The Definitive History is priced at £60, with a limited-run Collector’s Edition at £120 and a Unique Edition at a price to be confirmed. An extraordinary price, perhaps, but this is an extraordinary book; with it in the world, it’s highly unlikely that anyone else will try to tell the story of the Camel Trophy again.

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Charging ahead

The Range Rover Velar was the latest in the Land Rover range to gain plug-in hybrid technology.

And the sleek, svelte SUV-about-town is perfectly suited to gliding around in silence, making it one of the best weapons we can think of for defending yourself against marauding taxmen lectric propulsion has swept through the Land Rover range at a breathtaking pace over the last few years, with most engines now including at least some

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sort of mild hybrid technology. But it’s the company’s plug-in models that are making the real difference, offering as they do the opportunity to polish off a typical diet of everyday driving duties

without burning any fossil fuel at all – while avoiding the most punishing excesses of the Great British tax regime in the process.

The Velar is among the more recent additions to the PHE line-up, having arrived early this year with the now-familiar P400e powertrain. This combines a 2.0-litre petrol engine with a 1 .1kWh battery and -volt motor to develop a combined 0 bhp and 2lbf.ft.

We tested the vehicle in S form.

Listing at £61, 0 with this powertrain, it’s the second up in a run of four trim levels and it gives you everything most reasonable people could ask for – lots of luxuries, lots of media, lots of safety equipment and no small amount of off-road driver aids. The latter doesn’t include low range, but there’s a long list of high-tech alternatives including Terrain Response; this model has coil

springs, however, so its ground clearance can’t be hiked upwards the way it can on air.

It does as standard, at least. Our tester was equipped with a range of options including the £1 55 Dynamic Handling Pack, which includes Electronic Air Suspension as well as Adaptive Dynamics, Configurable Dynamics and All Terrain Progress Control. A major upgrade both on and off the road, then – and previous experience has shown that despite the lack of low range, the Velar is still a competent performer in muddy conditions.

Not that that’s what people buy it for.

This is The Elegant One in the Range Rover family. Well, they’re all elegant in their own way but, whereas the full-fat Rangey is a lord of the manor and the Sport is a pro footballer, the elar is David Niven. One doesn’t strive for

elegance, nor is it thrust upon one; elegance comes from within.

And the Velar is indeed very elegant within, too. Leather is standard on the S model, but for an extra £1105 ours was trimmed in a combination of suedecloth and premium textile in Light Oyster and Dapple Grey, and thoroughly fine it looked too. There’s a lovely simplicity to its layout, with crisp horizontal lines on the dash and a pair of classy looking multi-function screens removing the need for any unsightly buttons or switches.

Most of all, the colour combination is bright, classy and slick without coming across as being wrapped up in its own importance. There’s a subtle Union ack element to the pattern of the perforations in the seats which you might never even notice, and the textures and finishes throughout complement each

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other delightfully. Earlier this year, our first experience of a elar P 00e was aboard a left-hand drive model with a horrible black and blue treatment which ruined it completely, but this time it was a perfect example of good a modern Land Rover can look and feel.

Rear-seat passengers get to en oy it in plenty of room, too. And if you need to carry large loads, those seats drop close enough to flat for a ma or pilgrimage to Ikea not to end up in disaster. The tailgate aperture is a little arched, but that should only be an issue if you’ve chosen the wrong Land Rover to use for shifting furniture around the place.

Getting behind the wheel, the drivetrain system has EV, Hybrid and Save settings, allowing you to prioritise electric or petrol power or combine both. The idea is that you can choose to run emissions-free around town or, on a long motorway journey, conserve the battery to use where it will have the most worthwhile effect.

This works well enough as a way of managing your vehicle’s efficiency.

But in terms of performance, it doesn’t really matter which mode you’re in – it will always be extremely responsive on the throttle, leaping to attention the instant the pedal goes down. Even if you’re already bowling along at a good pace, it will still pick up speed without any hesitation.

It has the handling to match, with well controlled body movements giving it a poise that goes with its typically Range Rover level of grip. Torque Vectoring is standard on the Velar, adding yet another level of control in corners, and as well as cruising on the motorway with a wonderfully planted stability it’s very smooth and fluent on urban roads.

Obviously, it runs about town in EV mode with that eerie silence you expect from an electric vehicle. The engine is very quiet too, however – so much so, in fact, that there’s not a lot of difference in the drivetrain’s refinement wherever the power’s coming from.

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Leather is standard on this version of the Velar, but for an extra £1105 you can get it trimmed in a combination of suedecloth and premium textile. That’s what you see here, with a Light Oyster and Dapple Grey colour palette, and pictures barely do it justice – it’s bright, classy and slick, with a lovely simplicity to its layout that’s aided by a pair of multi-function screens which remove the need for any unsightly buttons or switches

the engine kicks in, and certainly no vibrations to feel.

The 2.0-litre unit sings out when you give it the boot, but it’s by no means an unpleasant noise – and once again it’s very well muted when you settle to a cruise. This does, however, serve to highlight that there’s rather a lot of road noise at speed, and a good bit of wind noise too.

It’s the same story around town, where the absence of engine noise lets the road in. The optional air suspension helps here, damping out some of the thumps as you run through pot holes and over cats eyes, but there’s only so much it can do. Another option on our elar was 21 rims and 265 5R21 tyres; Land Rover has rather got

beyond the point where low-profile sidewalls equate simply to high-profile fussing, but obviously less rubber means more work for the suspension and you do hear and feel it coming up into the cabin.

Off-road, as we mentioned above the Velar is more at home in rough and muddy conditions than its suave appearance and slick dynamics might have you expect. The hybrid powertrain is largely well suited here, too – though because the petrol engine is so very refined, the feeling of easing your way over the terrain in almost complete silence is one you can enjoy even if the battery is as flat as a pancake.

Obviously, however, the electric motor delivers torque in a way no internal

combustion engine ever can, so it feels utterly effortless at low speeds – even when you’re scaling sharp crests or longer, steep hills, the vehicle’s ability to fight gravity without needing to raise its voice never fails to come as a surprise. We did find, however, that when you reach the crest at the top of a climb and back off, it seems to pick up speed for a moment before the hill descent control kicks in to bring it back. aybe we’re ust too used to the sort of engine braking you get in a basic old diesel, but the feeling was enough to be alarming at times.

Would this stop us from buying a P 00e No, because we wouldn’t be buying it to go off-road in. It’s nice to know that when you’re spending

£6 ,310 (the price as tested) on something with a Range Rover badge on its bonnet, it does actually make a fist of living up to what those two words have come to mean, but we’d think it’s also quite nice to know that your own personal example of what this much money gets you will never have to prove it for itself.

For almost everyone who buys a elar, its image is what matters. That’s no criticism, and the vehicle answers that call superbly. And for almost everyone who buys a P400e, what really matters is being able to drive to work, school or the shops on nothing but electric power.

Either that or they don’t care about anything other than avoiding a huge tax

bill. But used correctly, this has the potential to be a tremendously economical premium SU – and one which sets itself apart from the crowd by dishing up some genuine off-road ability to go with its wide-ranging off-road skills. In every way, the elar PHE is a definitive example of a modern Land Rover.

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Age is just a number Words: Tom Alderney Pictures: Richard Hair

s e all no , age is ust a number hen it comes to efenders so hen you find one that’s been rebuilt as thoroughly as this 1986 90, it might as well be brand new. And there’s another number behind it, too – the number 57, with a letter M before it, which marks this out as a Land Rover which, like so many, is not powered by BMW’s legendary diesel engine s we all know, age is just a number when it comes to Land Rovers. So when you see one that’s 35 years old, it’s probably going to live a lot longer than cars being built right now.

Eliot Kimpton’s 0 is a case in point.

It came off the production line in 1 6 and we’re guessing it started life in the defence of the realm, because it was first registered with the D LA in 1 .

If our assumption is correct, that would put it as the kind of Defender that had a 2.5-litre nat-asp diesel.

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Which in turn would put it as the kind of Defender that has since then had an engine swap. Which, sure enough, it has.

During the 0s and 0s, various apanese engines came in and out of fashion as the go-to lump in the repower game. Ultimately, however, as countless thousands of k1 Discoverys rusted themselves into oblivion, Land Rover’s own 200 and 300 Tdi came to the fore - to the extent that it’s almost quite rare to find an early 0 or 110 that hasn’t been given one.

Unless it’s been given two, obviously.

If you don’t know somebody who’s bought one off eBay and thrown it in their truck only to discover that they’ve paid someone for a lump of scrap, you don’t know enough people.

Anyway, we digress. Eliot bought the vehicle just under two years, as a pro ect – though unlike most pro ects, it had already come out of a professional workshop with some extremely ma or work having been done to it.

The workshop in question was the home of MW Machines, which

specialises in engine conversions using the latter-day legend that is B W’s 5 diesel. The Warringtonbased company does kits for other vehicles too, but the Defender is very much its focus.

This particular 0 was more than ust a kit. And more than ust an engine, too. MW Machines rebuilt it on the chassis from a 2002 Td5 model, which was Raptor sealed before the vehicle started going back together.

As it did, in went an example of the 5 dating from 200 . This can

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Warrington-based MW Machines specialises in BMW M57 engine conversions, and this is one which the company installed itself. Dating from 2004, it went in complete with its original ZF6 HP six-speed automatic gearbox, though if you prefer your Defenders traditional it can also be tted to the front of Land over’s own 0 manual be fitted in one of two ways: directly to Land Rover’s R3 0 gearbox or, if you want an automatic, complete with B W’s F6 HP six-speed unit which then mates to the LT230 transfer case.

This one is the latter, and Eliot reckons is has averaged 30mpg since he bought it. He gives the engine a new oil filter every 3000 miles and has also changes the turbo, fuel pump, alternator, oil cooler and water pump since he bought the vehicle on top of a full overhaul at W achines prior to fitting, this is one very well looked after diesel. ‘The engine is marvellous,’ says Eliot. ‘For me, it will go for another 100,000 miles with only oil changes.’

Further down the drivetrain, a new set of propshafts turn the original axle at the front and, cos disc brakes, a Discovery unit at the rear. So yes, age is very much ust a number – which is exactly how Eliot wanted it, having chosen this particular 0 on the basis that in a few short years’ time, it’ll become a classic car in the eyes of the DL A, qualifying for free road tax and no longer needing an OT. With this in mind, Eliot wanted something with all the right stuff down

below but which he could treat as a blank canvas up top. ‘When I got the Defender,’ he says, ‘the shell was old and tired and that is what I wanted.

I wanted to completely renovate a Defender and make it drive like a modern car. One of my life goals ’ The potential was definitely there.

It wasn’t ust the shell that was tired when Eliot bought the 0. ‘The doors were falling off,’ he adds, which sounds fairly bad. He replaced them with three brand new ones bought as Genuine Parts from Land Rover itself (that thing you can hear is your wallet begging for mercy) then had the vehicle resprayed in Stealth Grey and Piano Black.

He’s also added a variety of cool stuff in the shape of Fire and Ice side steps, an RD front bumper and grille, custom rear side glass and a black tinted rear window. All the lights, including the headlamps, have been changed to Wipac LEDs. All this has been achieved without making it look like a lost-cause bling machine rather than something outrageously lowprofile, the vehicle wears a set of black Disco alloys by summer and Wolf rims with large mud-terrains in the winter.

Inside, it’s not a loadsamoney leather and chrome ob – but it is unique.

Eliot’s own design of 3D-printed dash sees to that. You also don’t see many 0s with Toyota R2 seats but he reckons they do the ob perfectly, leaving plenty of leg room even for a six-footer.

You might notice a full set of black carpets and matching roof lining, too.

But it’s what you don’t notice that makes the difference – to wit, £1000’s worth of Dynamat soundproofing applied everywhere it’s capable of going, as well as acoustic foam to add further to the vehicle’s refinement.

That’s no small amount to pump into the creature comforts fund, but there’s more. And this one really is good. ‘I removed the useless Defender heating system,’ says Eliot. ‘Anyone who knows Defenders knows it never works properly.

‘I’ve fitted a diesel heater, plumbed into the car vent system, with a control panel in the cab plus a remote so I can operate it from inside my house on cold days to get it warm for entry.

There’s a separate red diesel tank for this to save money.’

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There are many, many Defenders with non-standard cabins, but only one with a dashboard designed by Eliot himself and made using a D printer. Toyota seats are uite rare, too, as are the black carpet and headlining you can just about see here, but beyond the auto shifter on the oor console yes, it’s a Defender with a oor console another uni ue item is an ndroid TV media system with an O D reader for digital dials and engine diagnostics Further clever stuff includes the aforementioned dash, which is home to dials from a Td5 and a speedo conversion to a digital reader rather than a cable. There’s also a full Android T entertainment system – though this was fitted mainly as it provided an incar OBD reader for the aforementioned digital dials, as well as allowing full diagnostic access to the BMW engine.

The upshot of all this clever stuff has been to create a 0 which is definitely eye-catching and cool but certainly not such a self-conscious style wagon that you’d be scared to take it off-road. We all know about the sort of blinged-tothe-max Defenders that end up looking so incredibly fancy there’s no sense of purpose left to them, but even with its sportscar seats and extraordinarily unusual electronics this one still has a feeling of readiness to it that says

it’ll do all the wonderful things a Land Rover is supposed to.

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Reg Strikes Back…

Words and pictures: Dan Fenn

There’s no such thing as a Wood and Pickett Range Rover that’s not rare and special. This one, however, is more special than most. Prior to a major restoration, it spent several years as a or truc for a road laying cre but before that, the first art of its life as lived in the company of someone very famous indeed… he Land Rovers we feature in this here publication tend to fall into a number of different categories. They might be classic, restored or modified, they might be rarities, they might be historically significant, they might be work wagons or they might have some sort of interesting back story tucked away in their past.

This Range Rover is all of the above. You’ll recognise it as a Wood and Pickett, which means it’s a rarity straight out of the box.

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Founded in 1 , Wood and Pickett made its name as a coachbuilding company and is possibly best know outside of Land Rover circles for its work on Minis. Its conversions were noted for their extremely high quality and, in particular, for the almost limitless scope of their originality.

Its customers included any number of the world’s wealthiest people, including foreign royalty and a dazzling array of celebrities, and as a result some of its creations were, shall we say, rather focused in terms of whose

taste they appealed to. Limousines and landaulettes, convertibles and 6x6s, stretched wheelbases, Chevy engines, alternative front end styling, wildly lavish interior trims… whereas most specialists perfect the art of turning out ‘individual’ vehicles that are in essence all the same, the variety of the Range Rovers Wood and Pickett created during the 70s and 80s was little short of breathtaking.

If nothing else, then, this is a rare and special Range Rover, and a bona fide classic. But it’s more besides. It’s

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The Wood and Pickett conversion included an interior treatment which, at the time, was pretty much as luxurious as it was possible for a car to be. t’s still up there now, with beautifully polished wood veneers set off by a sumptuous cream leather treatment on the seats and doors which features diamond quilting and lavish red piping. The latter goes with the dash top and door handles, and even the foot mats, to turn a 1 0s’ executive wagon into a vehicle worthy of being serviced at Rolls-Royce and Bentley dealerships – which this one was. The whole interior has been retrimmed as part of the restoration, so with modern techniques and materials coming into play you can reasonably assume it has never looked as good as it does now

been restored, but we’ll come to that.

It’s also been a work truck, but we’ll come to that too.

First, let’s deal with its early life.

You’ll have noticed that it’s red, which has never been the most common of colours for Range Rovers. Obviously, when you were buying a Wood and Pickett back then you could have it in any colour you wanted, and it would appear that this one was commissioned to match a very famous piano.

‘The story of the vehicle is that it was once Elton ohn’s,’ explains Joshua Harris, who along with his grandfather Eric has owned it for the last ten years. ‘I contacted his management company and had a response saying they remember the vehicle, but Sir Elton is too busy to deal with these type of requests, so I have been unable to prove it. But certain things suggest it’s true.

‘The colour matches his piano, for example. And I haven’t touched the paintwork, that’s original.

‘Also, I found an old box of matches deep in the sun visor from the Beverly Hills Hotel in California, which is one of his favourite hotels – I believe he had his 50th birthday party there.’

It’s not quite conclusive proof, but it’s circumstantial evidence for sure.

And while the answer from Sir Elton’s people has more than a whiff of obsworthiness to it, you wouldn’t mind betting that if the man himself happened upon it, he’d be delighted to confirm the truth.

Another nice bit of evidence, again circumstantial but who cares, is that the Range Rover’s first owner had it fully serviced and stamped up… by a Rolls-Royce and Bentley dealership.

‘No expense was ever spared on this vehicle,’ comments oshua. Obviously, if you had the money to buy a new

Wood and Pickett Range Rover back in the 1 0s, you didn’t need to be pop royalty to also run about in Bentleys and Rollers, but Sir Elton was well known for owning many examples of those marques… as well as others including Astons, Ferraris and Watford Football Club.

So, we’re happy to believe that this is indeed the former property of the Rocket Man. Joshua says the story, as he understands it, is that it was bought for him as a gift by his record label in appreciation of how well he was doing.

Which was nice of them. You may have heard a similar story about Oasis, a

Rolls-Royce and a swimming pool, which is Definitely aybe not true, but whatever your taste in music Elton John is a man who knows a good car when he sees one.

As indeed is Joshua Harris. The good car in question is often a Range Rover (there’s an Overfinch in the

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family too, but that’s literally another story), with this one being ‘a little project which turned into a massive 10-year pro ect.’ It’s probably safe to say that when Joshua and Eric took a punt on it back in 2011, they didn’t know what was coming.

‘To begin with,’ says oshua, ‘the vehicle actually wasn’t that bad. It drove fine and always passed its OTs.’ But now, classic Range Rover fans and believers in the cotton wool approach, prepare to shudder.

‘We actually took the carpets and rear seats out and used it as a van, and to tow our trailer with aggregates and stone! In one day, she towed a fully

loaded trailer with four men on board all the way to Cornwall for a job, I had that much faith in her.’

Before you ask, no they weren’t building a yellow brick road. But in 2015, he said goodbye to it and decided that rather that working his old Classic to death, it was time to give it the full restoration it deserved.

And though the Rangey has long since been back on the road, the details are still ongoing today.

During the intervening six years, oshua reckons he’s spent more than £75,000 on the job. Eye-watering money, for sure, but what a great way to spend it.

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First up, the body came off and the chassis was shot blasted and resprayed. Then, panel by panel, every last bit of rusty metal was cut out from the bodywork and replaced. The axles were rebuilt with performance brakes featuring higher-friction pads and grooved, vented discs, then the chassis was hung on them using upgraded springs and shocks.

Hence our suggestion that this is, at least to some extent, a modified Range Rover. That might possibly be too extreme a word, but it’s certainly been enhanced at the very least – not to turn it into anything it isn’t, which would clearly be nothing short of sacrilege,

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but to keep it just as it was only better.

Even better.

Under the bonnet, for example, the original 3.5-litre Rover V8 has been rebuilt using performance heads and a faster camshaft profile. ore than that, it’s gained a new electronic fuel injection system as well as a programmable engine management set-up and out the back, a stainless steel sports exhaust. There’s a remote start function, too, allowing the engine and cabin alike to be preheated prior to setting off on cold morning.

Throughout the vehicle, every pipe and hose has been renewed. So too has the entire wiring loom, and almost

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every nut and bolt has been replaced too. As far as the DVLA is concerned, this is a 117,000-mile vehicle approaching its 33rd birthday, but if you know even a little bit of what you’re looking at you’ll know that’s about as far off beam as it’s possible to be.

Elsewhere, the transfer box has been completely rebuilt and the steering pump renewed, as has every bearing throughout the vehicle. As always, there’s no such thing as a finished pro ect – oshua is still working on the details, and it’s hard to imagine him ever running out of ways to make a good thing better, but the main part of the rebuild has involved turning the

ood and ickett would put a hevy V in your ange over if that’s what you wanted, but this one is still using its original 3.5-litre V8. This has been rebuilt – and not just back to factory speci cation, but with performance heads and a faster camshaft pro le, as well as electronic fuel injection, a programmable management system and a stainless steel sports exhaust. As with the rest of the restoration programme, which included upgrades to the suspension and brakes, the idea wasn’t to turn the vehicle into something it wasn’t but instead to take it back to what it once was – only with the bene t of modern engineering. t’s the sort of ange over lassic that ood and Pickett would have created now, you might say

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There are so many cool details to be seen around the vehicle that you barely know where to start. No apologies for giving you another eyeful of that quilted leather and polished wood, for example, whether it’s on the door trims or the gear levers atop that retro looking oor console.

And of course when it comes to retro, the old 18-spoke Wolfrace rims that were synonymous with Wood and Pickett conversions remain as evocative as ever – especially with a bit of white-wall action on the rubber around them. The coachbuilder’s badging on the D-post tells a story all of its own, too – as do the thumping great subs in the boot, which seem appropriate in a Rangey once owned by a top pop star

Range Rover back into a totally sound, totally roadworthy machine that’s ready to be driven today, tomorrow and as far into the future as he, and any subsequent owners, might fancy. uch of this is stuff you don’t see, of course. But you ust need to take one look at the Range Rover’s glorious paintwork, crisp details and immaculate Wolfrace wheels, the latter complete with the correct white-wall striped tyres, to know it’s something special. And that’s before you look inside…

Here, in our view, is where the real magic happens. Every last scrap of leather has been renewed and restitched, all of it by hand, with lush diamond-quilted cream seats and deep red piping. Is it too much to say that the Range Rover mimics the Rosso Corsa body and Crema interior of all those Ferraris Sir Elton used to collect…? aybe, maybe not. But we know which one we’d sooner spend the afternoon aboard. Really, it’s hard to exaggerate how classy this old girl is inside, with matching red leather on her dash top and extensive polished wood detailing on her doors, floor console, steering wheel and more. It’s a fabulously retro design, carried off to the highest standards of today, and it is quite simply sublime.

There’s a new head lining up top, of course, and soundproofing was installed throughout the vehicle as it went back together to keep the cabin as refined to travel in as it is to look at. And talking of sounds, Joshua added a 10-speaker stereo with rear subwoofers and built-in Bluetooth for hands-free operation. It has fully customisable programming and is, he says, ‘extremely loud.’ Not All uiet on

the Western Front, then (see what we did there?)

We could try to conclude this story by winding in as many tortured references as possible to songs by Elton John, but instead let’s ust stand back, figuratively at least, and admire a piece of work which, irrespective of your taste in

music, strikes the perfect note. In fact, even if it were to turn out that the Rocket Man himself never did own this Range Rover, it wouldn’t detract one bit from what a supremely classy, and classily restored, vehicle it is.

When we met oshua, with the restoration complete to the extent you

see in our pictures (which is to say, all done bar the sort of details he needed to point out to us himself), he was inviting offers of around £85,000 for the Rangey. Not exactly Too Low For ero but if you’re looking at it and thinking I’ve Been Loving You, and it’s looking back saying It’s e That You Need…

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well, as always with classic Landies, it’s Easier To Walk Away.

Sorry, couldn’t help ourselves, could we But if it’s easier to walk away, it’s even easier to just give in. And if this Rangey is calling you, that’s what we’d recommend you do. After all, there Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing…

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A lockdown project…

Words: Olly Sack Pictures: Alan Kidd

n the spring of 2020, when Covid first swept the world and the nation went into lockdown, many things changed. The roads went quiet.

People started going out for walks.

Swindon Town won something by not playing, which is pretty much the only way that was ever going to happen.

Soon, it became impossible to turn on the radio without hearing either Chris Whitty or that ‘We’ve Lost Dancing’ song. Some of us never had it in the first place. ‘Furlough’ went from being a word no-one except missionaries had ever heard of to a name people called the dog they had ust bought for something to do while they were off work.

But mainly, all across the country, hundreds and thousands of petrol heads finally got round to doing that pro ect they had had sitting in their

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garage for years. The result was a clamour for parts and accessories that helped keep the independent Land Rover trade up and running through the worst of it.

‘We were proud to work through the pandemic to supply parts and repairs to all key workers including paramedics, police, nurses, teachers and care workers, of whom we have many customers,’ comments Andy Degiulio, the owner of one such outfit, A D Off Road of Hoddeston in Hertfordshire.

When lockdown happened, however, even with this line of business remaining open the company’s workload decreased massively.

But like so many people in the independent trade, Andy is an enthusiast too. Beyond his own customer base, he’s probably best known for his exploits as a highly

successful comp safari racer, however he knows a thing or two about classic Land Rovers too. And herein lay the ace up his sleeve which allowed him to offer his staff the choice when lockdown came along: take up the option of going on furlough or stay on to look after essential repairs for key workers and, the rest of the time, get stuck in to an in-house restoration that had been crawling along since 2016.

That was when A D bought the Series IIA you see here. ‘Our ob ective from the start was to restore it back to how it would have left the factory in 1 65,’ Andy explains.

‘As we run a busy workshop and also a parts shop, when we started the pro ect we used it as a time filler. But when lockdown hit back in arch 2020, we took this opportunity to go all in and get it to the finished result.’

When Britain went into lockdown in the spring of 2020, Land Rover enthusiasts around the country took the chance to get stuck into the vehicles they had never had the time to work on. And at AJD Off Road, the Series IIA that had been sitting in a corner for years was about to be reborn in magnificent style

To advertise in The Landy, call our team on 01283 553244 w w w. t h e l a n d y. c o . u k We’re on Facebook: www.facebook.com/thelandyuk To go back to the start for a moment, what attracted Andy to this particular IIA was that it still had all its original component parts in place. It was still on its factory chassis and bulkhead, engine (a 2.25-litre petrol), gearbox and even axles. ‘We wanted to keep it this way,’ says Andy, ‘to add to its character, keeping it as original as we possibly could.’

To help them do this, the A D team started by stripping the Land Rover down to its chassis. Nothing unusual there, nor indeed in a rebuild that saw every ma or assembly comprehensively refurbished using no end of quality new parts, but this is a story with some wonderful details to the way it was finished.

It’s also a story with some absolutely painstaking work in it. A restoration doesn’t necessarily need to be cripplingly labour-intensive, if you’re willing to stump up for new stuff rather than putting in the elbow grease on the originals. But there’s that word again, ‘original’ – in a rebuild like this you could see it as a synonym for ‘sacred,’ and that’s the view Andy took.

‘We restored any parts of the body that were slightly aged,’ he explains.

‘Unfortunately, like a lot of these vehicles, the wings were full of holes due to chequer plate being fitted throughout its life. We drilled off all the old plate and carefully tig-welded every hole then ground them flat to get it back to its original state.

‘We then had every panel repainted back to its original colour, as the previous owner had hand-painted the vehicle blue.’

Admit it. You’d have ust gone out and bought a new set of wings, wouldn’t you Now, Andy admitted to us that some people told him he was mad to go to so much effort rather than ust replacing stuff. But you can sense that he had developed a devotion to keeping the vehicle original that went way beyond what the realms of what a professional restorer would look at in terms of costs and benefits.

Get this, for example. When the vehicle first oined the A D fleet, a previous owner had fitted a hasp to keep the bonnet locked – and cut out a section of the grille to provide access to it. These are the things you don’t have to worry about when you restore Ferraris instead. Anyway, buying a new grille would have been too easy.

Instead, Andy rebuilt it using an old dipstick which he ground down to the same gauge, cut to size then bent into shape before tig-welded it into to the existing grille. After that, the whole thing went off to be galvanised.

If you want to think of this in terms of a garage’s labour rate, ust remember to stop before the palpitations begin.

But this was a lockdown pro ect, when people suddenly became tremendously

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Above left: The 2.25 petrol engine was original, as were the gearbox and transfer case, the axles, the chassis, the bulkhead, the panels, the lot. The word treasure’ hardly touches the sides of how valuable this vehicle was as a restoration project bove right s is came back together, everything was nished off as accurately as possible. ll the body cappings were sand-blasted and re-galvanised, and Exmoor Trim supplied a new canvas hood to the correct original spec elow

ore from xmoor here, in the shape of a full set of elephant-hide front and rear seats. The same company supplied the hood sticks, too

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hy are we showing you a close-up of the ’s grille ecause it’s only partially a grille, that’s why. art of it had been cut out for access to a hasp keeping the bonnet locked – and such was ndy’s determination to keep it original, rather than just buying a new one he repaired it by grinding an old dipstick to the correct gauge, hammering and bending it into shape and tig-welding it in so that the structure was once again complete. On the rear side panels, once again keeping the originals was paramount – so the dents in them were skimmed over with ller then, to recreate the correct appearance, the surface was dimpled with a drill bit where it would originally have been marked by spot welds time-rich – and you can’t help but admire the sort of dedication that goes into doing something like this. Look at the finished result and you’ll be more than a little impressed by the skill that went into it, too.

Then came the rear body, where the side panels had copped a number of battle scars down the years. ‘We skimmed some filler into them to remove all the dents,’ explains Andy.

‘Then to mimic the look of the original, we used a drill to add a row of small dents where there would originally have been spot welds.’

After that, it hardly sounds like anything to report that the team stripped off all the Land Rover’s body cappings and sent them off to be sand blasted and re-galvanised, prior to fitted them back on to the repainted body panels using the correct domed rivets.

Elsewhere, there were areas in which the vehicle had lost its originality and needed to be given it back.

Happily, the previous owner seems to have understood that this might be important one day, because he had boxed up various items he’d taken off it and stored them in the back.

These included the original steering box, wheel and indicator switch, which had been removed and replaced with Series III items. Naturally, the originals went back on – after, of course, first being refurbished. The correct 6.00x16 tyres had long since gone, too, to be replaced by a bigger, more modern size, and this too was put right.

Of course, as this illustrates it wasn’t all ust a case of refurbishing old parts.

Lots of new stuff had to be bought too – mainly for the purpose of making the refurbishments happen, of course.

‘Paul yers at Britpart was a lot of help in supplying the parts for this rebuild,’ comments Andy. ‘He is a good friend from the off-road racing world, as well as being our biggest parts supplier.’

There’s an honourable mention for Exmoor Trim, too, which supplied the canvas tilt and a new hoop set to support it, along with a full set of the elephant hide front and rear seats.

The finished result of all this effort was a Series IIA which looks – well, ust like a Series IIA look, but not as

you know it. Unless you were around in 1 65, that is. To go back to the beginning, Andy told us his aim with the pro ect was to restore the vehicle back to how it would have been when it left the factory – and if you can see anything in the way of discrepancies in it, you’re doing better than us.

It was never meant to be a lockdown pro ect, this. But it is, in every sense, a shining example of what people were able to do with those strange few months. Having a fully equipped workshop and a team of skilled pros to call on definitely helps, obviously, as does a trade account with some of the

biggest and best parts and accessories suppliers in the land. But ultimately, what a pro ect comes down to is the vision behind it and the dedication with which that vision is pursued. And there’s a whole list of factory-original parts that say this is one of the best, truest Land Rovers you’ll ever find.

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are their victim. If it’s safe to do so,

are all public rights of way – either

film them in the act and pass it to

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the police.

Unclassified County Roads. The

Elsewhere, let common sense

latter are also sometimes known

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speed down, be ready to pull over

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any green lane users

for others and show the world we

avoid referring to their hobby as

are decent people ust like them.

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activities of vandals who give 4x4

limited to individual troublemakers

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possible to follow the route. We

to encounter real hostility even

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from their rank-and-file members.

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bad apples, but no more so than

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able to do the route without maps,

driving sensibly. What suspicion

but you should certainly have them

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judge how suitable the route is for

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your Land Rover. These are ust

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can make a huge difference to the

horse riders pass

conditions underfoot, and what’s wide open in winter can be tightly

• Leave gates as you found them • Scrupulously obey all closure and

enclosed and scratchy in summer.

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can be greater than it appears – and even the most capable of Land Rovers is capable of breaking down miles from anywhere.

RESPONSIBILITY Irresponsible driving is a big issue on green lanes. In particular, you must always stay on the right of way. Never drive off it to ‘play’ on the verges or surrounding land, even if you can see that someone else has; doing so is illegal and can be tremendously damaging.

This kind of illegal off-roading is a key reason why green lanes get closed. Drivers who do this may be fellow Land Rover owners

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DON’T… • Go in large convoys: instead, split into smaller groups • Drop litter. Why not carry a bin bag pick up other people’s instead • Go back to drive the fun bits, such as mud or fords, again • Cause a noise nuisance, especially not after dark

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wning a Series IIA or IIB Forward Control tends not to be something you do unless you’re seriously into these particularly distinctive Land Rovers. They’re a bit like someone else’s baby – lovely to look at and maybe to

have a little go of, but you know it’s going to cost you a fortune and ultimately it’s nice to be able to give it back.

These are an epic-level rarity, for a number of reasons. One is that they were only made in pretty tiny numbers, another that they tended to be abused

Series I (1948-1958)

The Series I, particularly in its 80” guise, is the most sought-after of

all Land Rovers. Its engineering and design give it real charisma, but parts aren’t readily available.

Restoration projects require deep pockets, but see it through and the result will be worth mega bucks.

Gone are the days where you could use a Series I as an actual Land Rover. Because with restored examples changing hands

Series III (1971-1985)

The Series III wasn’t too dissimilar to the Series IIA in mechanical

terms, keeping the same 2.25-litre engines throughout the length of its production run.

In 1980, the engines switched to a more durable five-bearing crank rather than the old threebearing setup. The transmission also received syncromesh on all forward gears to make it easier to live with.

Lightweight (1968-1984)

These military vehicles can easily be distinguished from regular

Land Rovers. To mimic the civvy Series machines, the Series III model built from 1 2 onwards, also had its headlights switched out to the wings.

Lightweights add an extra dimension to owning a Land Rover.

Their military history and details mean you get a truck with more stories to tell – and that stands

90/110 (1983-1990)

This is Land Rover at its best: a no nonsense workhorse that can

also take you ust about anywhere in the world.

Early 90s and 110s are starting to be a real collector’s item. But you’ll likely be searching far and wide for a pristine example.

These Land Rovers had coilsprung suspension, new engines and a world-beating level of rugged off-road capability.

and neglected during their working lives.

There’s a lot of them to rust, and they’re really good at it.

With Land Rover’s 2.25 petrol and diesel engines below decks, the IIA and IIB were as fast as they were refined.

But with ENV axles, 9.00x16 tyres and SPOA suspension, they stood very tall indeed – which is one reason why they’re such eye-catchingly cool classics today.

It’s a labour of love – and there’s a whole

£5000-£75,000 for millionaire money, preservation is the aim of the game.

The earlier the vehicle, the more it will be worth. The sky’s the limit – but can you really put a price on such an icon?

Pros: Heritage, charm, a true classic, the original Land Rover Cons: Availability of parts, price tag on early 80s

£2500-£30,000 They still carry the simplicity of earlier Land Rovers, but can be obtained for a fraction of the price... for now.

Pros: Most affordable way into Series ownership. Still has the Series pedigree. Parts still widely available Cons: Not yetas desirable as the earlier Series models

£3500-£22,000 out from the crowd. They’re a rare breed, though – so if you find one, it could be worth keeping hold of.

Pros: Not like all the other Land Rovers out there. Military background. Lovely 2.25 petrol Cons: Appearance isn’t to everyone’s taste. Exclusivity over regular models means they command a price premium

£2500-£19,000 A very early 2.25 petrol 0 is a rare thing, and a beautiful one too. But perhaps try for a 2.5 natasp diesel: they’re robust and as simple as they come.

Pros: Excellent parts availability. Easy to work on. Unlimited potential for mods and restos Cons: Puny engines (V8 apart) Not many left in good condition

Insure a Series IIB FC with Adrian Flux from just £75 lot of labour in owning one, too. But you’ll definitely love the attention it gets you.

• Based on a 1968 2.25 petrol i no o i a ions a a £10,000, limited to 3000 miles a year. 50 year old driver, fully comp, excess of £100

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£2500-£40,000

much of that early charm. Prices are on the increase, however, as these vehicles start to come into their own as collector’s items.

A 2.25 petrol would be our pick, as the diesel engines were underpowered and rather noisy.

The Series II/IIA has a wider stance than its predecessor and adds an extra (thin) layer of

refinement. While the engines have excellent longevity, they need to have been maintained properly. Be thorough in your checks, both under the bonnet and underneath the body.

Pros: A sound investment to restore. Some now MOT exempt Cons: Bulkheads and chassis rot, springs prone to seizing

Series IIA/IIB FC (1962-1971)

£2500-£15,000

rarity – with all the cachet, pride and immense awkwardness that comes with this status.

By ‘rare’, we’re talking about less than 2500 Series IIA FCs in total. And they tended to have a very hard life, so not many have survived to tell the tale.

Forward-Control models differed from everyday Series IIs by

having heavy-duty ENV axles, but engine-wise they had the familiar 2.25 petrol and diesel lumps. So, don’t expect performance – but do expect to be given an ‘interesting’ time in the workshop…

Pros: A Land Rover like no other, if that’s what you want Cons: Especially brutal to drive, and to find parts

The Series II/IIA is more affordable than a Series I, yet it still carries

Forward Control Land Rovers are a cult within a cult. They’re a real

101 (1972-1978)

Only ever sold to the Army, the 101 became a cult vehicle when

£7500-£26,000 the time came for demob. They were flogged off at very low prices and turned into off-road toys – not something you’d do with one today, given the rarity and classic value they’ve taken on.

Compared to the IIA/IIB FC, the 101 is more fun thanks to its engine. It’s still a military tool, though – some still have fixtures

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The 12 was built on a special production line in Solihull which

and fittings from their Army life, which adds interest. This is a vehicle for enthusiasts, though, with costs that are sky-high even

by Land Rover standards.

Pros: Master of the road. Lovely V8 soundtrack. Everybody who sees one loves it Cons: Monumental running costs. Expensive to buy, too

£7500-£25,000 took 110 chassis and stretched them. It was designed for military and commercial users and came as a high-capacity double-cab.

These days, it’s very rare to find a 12 that hasn’t been hammered, restored and/or converted, or all three. People looking for a work truck tend to go for a later 130, so the 12 is more of an enthusiast’s

motor. It’s popular for homebrewed overland conversions, too.

Almost all 12 s have had an engine conversion by now, too.

Lots to be wary of, then – but it’s a hell of a lot for your money.

Pros: Enormous size means limitless potential and character Cons: Unwieldy. Sure to have had a colourful life

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Defender 200 Tdi (1990-1994) £4000-£29,000 Defender 130 (1990-2016)

The Tdi engine, which arrived with the Defender name, can last for

decades if it’s looked after. Find one that’s had all its oil changes (a tall order) and it’ll go round (and round) the clock.

The good thing about the earlier 200Tdi is that it’s simpler than the later 300. What you gain here you lose in refinement, but this is seen by many experts as the best Defender of them all.

Defender 300 Tdi (1994-1998)

The 300 Tdi engine is very different to the 200 unit it replaced, though

the two are related. It’s much more refined and smoother to drive, though there are more electronics involved so later versions in particular are less of a DIY fix.

The arrival of the 300 Tdi also brought with it the R3 0 gearbox.

This used to have a terrible reputation for relability, but most have been put right by now and they’ve

Defender TDCi (2007-2016)

The last Defenders gained modern 2. and 2.2 TDCi engines and

smooth six-speed gearboxes, They still had phenomenal off-road ability and were even okay to sit in. Famously, this was the Defender that actually had a dashboard any people dislike the TDCi, especially the earlier 2. , but they still change hands for huge money – especially when the likes of Kahn or Twisted have been

The LT gearbox in the 200 Tdi is more truck-like than the later R3 0, and these vehicles didn’t come with bling. ust be sure it’s an original Tdi you’re getting, not an old Discovery conversion.

Pros: The perfect combination of tradition and modernity Cons: Lots of horrible and/or deceptive ones around

£4500-£30,000

When Land Rover introduced the Defender name, it was actually the

Defender Td5 (1998-2007)

The Td5 engine is arguably Land Rover’s most reliable unit and it’s

£9500-£195,000

Defender (2020-on)

involed. You will always pay a premium for a Puma, and a Tdi or Td5 may turn out to be a better purchase. Even then, though, look after it and you may well never see depreciation.

Pros: Efficiency, creature comforts, off-road prowess Cons: Price, electronics, TDCi engine is unloved

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130 that changed the most. That’s because unlike the old 12 , it was built on a proper chassis of its own rather than a stretched 110 frame.

The advent of the Tdi engine was the making of the 130, too. At last, Land Rover could make them pull properly without returning single-figure fuel economy by using a hard-worked .

become sought after for their light clutch and better shift action.

It was during the Tdi era that Defenders started getting things like alloys, too. You might even find one that’s not been off-road…

Pros: Strength and simplicity.

Perhaps the definitive Defender Cons: Sure to be very different to when it left the factory

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As a result, you’ll find many more original(ish) 130s than 12 s.

Some are even still in service with the utility companies they were built for. If you want a Defender for overlanding, look no further.

Pros: A proper truck with huge capabilities in every area Cons: It’s a big lump if you don’t actually need that much size

£6000-£30,000

a strong performer. It does lend itself to being tuned though, so watch out for abused ones and knackered examples that have been pushed beyond the limit.

As with all Defenders, you’ll need a rear crossmember sooner or later – or even a new chassis.

Despite having more electronics than the Tdi, a Td5 Defender can

still be a DIY machine. Parts are in plentiful supply, as is specialist knowledge – and it’s one of the best Land Rovers ever.

Pros: Off-road capability, power, overall reliability. Very well suited to being modified Cons: Rear chassis, premium prices, monstrous road tax on later vehicles

£45,000-£105,000

to steer it away on to something safer. Like Brexit, for example.

Much as it may infuriate purists, however, the Defender is actually a very wonderful thing. It’s kind of like an old one, only with space, comfort and equipment.

The big difference is that you can’t work on it yourself. This goes for maintenance and, crucially,

making modifications – a market Land Rover wants to take back and have for itself. It won’t hold its value the way an original-shaper does, either. Be in no doubt, though – this is a superb vehicle.

Pros: Comfort, capability, rugged fitness for purpose Cons: Not cheap to buy. Lacks the old one’s basic charm

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Freelander 1 (1997-2006)

The Freelander 1 is a cheap gateway into Land Rover ownership.

It’s also a notable classic in its own way, as it heralded the start of the company’s modern era.

It has its issues, though. The viscous coupling is expensive to replace and can be upset simply by running mismatched tyres.

The 1.8 petrol used to be notorious for head gasket failures.

Today’s replacements are much

£400-£5500 more robust, but a late diesel is your best bet. Even these can go calamitously wrong, though. This was a more complex car than it needed to be, and buying one for sweeties now doesn’t change that.

Pros: Cheap to buy, no big rust issues, surprisingly able off-road Cons: All sorts of things can go wrong, some very expensively

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it replaced. It’s a refined and affordable SUV with a strong engine, good equipment and a decent level of practicality.

It’s become one of the most reliable Land Rovers out there, too.

But do be aware of the rear diff and Haldex unit for costly outlays.

The 2.2-litre diesel engine is a strong performer, though for a

bargain search out one with the unpopular 3.2 petrol unit. Either way, it’s a fine SU to drive.

Prices have fallen since the production ended, too – £10,000 now gets you one worth having.

Pros: Reliability, refinement, economy of diesel engine Cons: Transmissions can wear quickly if used for towing

Range Rover Classic (1970-96) £5000-£85,000 Range Rover P38A (1994-2002) £1500-£25,000

The original Rangey is a classic you can use everyday – and there

are people who do just that, preferring to invest new-car money in a restoration than spending it on a current model.

It’s a smart policy, too. An early two-door can cost mega money, but any Classic will appreciate in value if kept in good condition – and sought-after rarities like the CSK and LSE can be a gold mine.

Range Rover L322 (2002-12)

The k3 Range Rover hit new heights of luxury and was more re-

liable than the P3 . It’ll still cost a lot to run, however, and drivetrain faults and underbody corrosion are not unknown.

The TDV8 engine is sublime, but you’ll pay more to get one – especially the . , though the 3.6 has all the power you need. The V8 petrol, on the other hand, is temptingly cheap. Guess why…

RR Sport Mk1 (2005-2013)

The Sport is mechanically similar to the Discovery 3 – meaning it’s

a supreme off-roader as well as being a funky road ride. It doesn’t handle like a sports car, but is agile enough for an SUV. A Discovery of the same era is far more practical, however, while a full-fat Rangey has more class.

The Sport is still a massively able tow barge, though, in addition to all its other virtues.

RR Evoque Mk1 (2011-19)

When the Evoque was launched, it signalled LR’s intent on hitting

the masses. Given that it was the company’s fastest-selling vehicle, they clearly hit the brief, even if it wasn’t for the traditional Land Rover owner.

It’s actually still a capable thing off-tarmac – but it’s definitely more at home on the road.

Nevertheless, it is economical

by Land Rover standards and

An awful lot of Rangeys have been neglected and/or abused, and you can still buy they cheap.

But if you’ve got the skills, and access to parts, restoring one would be the ultimate hobby that pays.

Pros: Most usable classic Land Rover, V8 power, ride quality Cons: Rust, availability of parts for early models

£2250-£28,000

A k2 Rangey in good working order is still a sensational car to

own, even today. The problem is that they’re very complex and very, very good at going wrong.

Air suspension failure is the norm. Head gaskets can let go.

Electronics are laughably flaky.

And parts can cost the earth – as will the labour bills. Perhaps worst of all, nowadays it’s very hard to find one you can be sure hasn’t

Range Rover L405 (2012-on) £27,000-£220,000

This isn’t a DIY motor, but it certainly is a Range Rover, with brilliant off-road and towing skills.

It relies a lot on electronics, but they work wonders – and the deepdown engineering is very robust.

Pros: Great off-road, luxury, image, TDV8 powerplants Cons: Very complex. Huge running costs

The current Range Rover is a ma estic x . All the engines in the

£32500-£25,000

RR Sport Mk2 (2013-on)

You’re looking at a car which many people associate with rich chavs and criminals, however. And being based on the Discovery 3, it can’t help but share that vehicle’s reputation as a money pit.

Pros: Decent performance and all-round dynamics Cons: A Disco 3 is more usable.

Expect horrific running costs

£9500-£47,000 because there are so many out there, used prices are tempting.

There’s a Convertible model, too, as well as three and five-door tin-tops. We say stick to the latter, and be sure to get one with WD. Pros: Economy, handling, iconic concept-car image Cons: Cramped rear seats, not as practical as a Disco Sport

The second-generation Range Rover Sport is 00kg lighter than

range supply copious amounts of power, and its road manners are absolutely impeccable.

It’s startlingly capable off-road, too, even if getting one muddy would feel like bad form. ost that leave the tarmac probably do so only when their owners are in the mood to blow some grouse out of the sky.

the original, meaning it’s almost economical to run. It feels really nimble and agile on the road, too, and it comes with a range of engines giving it a brisk turn of pace.

Some won’t like the flamboyant posture, while others will love it.

Either way, inside the cabin it’s very nearly as luxurious as the full-fat Range Rover.

RR Evoque Mk2 (2019-on)

ost Range Rovers all look the same at the front now, but the new

The Velar a competent cruiser and has received numerous accolades

other models expected to follow the Velar in due course.

But is there a whiff of style over substance Well, it’s a very good SU . But you don’t half pay a premium for those suave looks...

Pros: Stylish design, chic cabin, excellent tech features Cons: Feels like an indulgence, especially at such a high price

The original Discovery was based on the Range Rover of the time,

Inside, the Range Rover’s cabin is superb, with sumptuous trim and cutting-edge equipment.

Prices are, of course, as immense as the vehicle itself. But if you can afford it, so too is the presence a Rangey will give you.

Pros: Class, luxury, engines, vast all-round capability Cons: Price

£22,500-£190,000

Evoque has adopted a similiar back end to the larger elar. It’s not just the exterior that mimics the looks of the larger vehicle, however, as the Evoque has gained the latest Touch Pro Duo tech and a hike in quality.

The main highlight of the new Evoque is the fact the majority of the range is made up of mild

Range Rover Velar (2017-on) £31,500-£95,000 Discovery 1 (1989-1998) because of its particularly handsome exterior. It’s based upon the same architecture as the Jaguar F-Pace but has greater off-road ability and is available with a wide choice of engines, most of which combine good economy with usable everyday performance.

The interior is Land Rover’s most advanced cabin to date, with

spent at least part of its life being worked on by idiots Still, you’ll get a classy motor with proper off-road and towing skills. It’s becoming a classic, too, and prices are still tiny considering everything you get.

Pros: Luxury, price, a Land Rover that doesn’t rust Cons: Electrics. Be very afraid

with the same 100” wheelbase and a slick body containing a spacious, flexible cabin. It was well equipped and refined, and it came with the wonderful Tdi engine.

Over time, the Discovery’s epic off-road ability meant almost all of them were hammered at playdays.

Lower body rust is a big killer, too.

So it’s rare to find a good one now,

The only stumbling block with such a fine motor is going to be how to pay for it. Depreciation has started to bring down the purchase price – though you’ll never run one on a shoestring.

Pros: Performance, refinement, glorious interior Cons: Marmite image. Pricey to buy and run

£31,600-£55,000 hybrids, available with diesel and petrol engines combining to an electric motor. Only the base D150 Evoque escapes the electrification, and we’d avoid it as it doesn’t have four-wheel drive.

Pros: Feels like a proper Range Rover inside Cons: Petrol engine is poor on fuel economy, even as a hybrid

£1000-£18,000 and when you do they tend to be priced with a lot of optimism.

Very early ones in tip-top condition are full-on classics, too. For a sound one to own, we’d look for a tidy 300Tdi. Pros: Price, practicality, parts availability. Epic off-road ability Cons: The body rusts like it’s been doused in sea water

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Discovery 2 (1998-2004)

The Disco 2 is powered by the Td5 engine, one of Land Rover’s most

£1100-£9000

most reliable units ever. It drives well, too – mated to a manual box it has more guts even than the V8 option, which is surprisingly bland but predictably thirsty.

Whereas the Disco 1 was prone to body rust, the D2 is fine here.

Instead, its chassis rots like a carrot, especially towards the back end. Also at the back, seven-seat

Discovery 5 (2017-on)

The Discovery 5 is a versatility monster. As an all-rounder, at

models had air-suspension, with all the horrors that brings. ainly, D2 owners will tell you about rogue electronics. And leaky sunroofs. They still love their trucks, though, which says a lot.

Pros: Td5 power and reliability, great all-rounder, lots of choice Cons: Chassis rust, electronics, leaky sunroofs, air suspension

£25,600-£80,000

launch it was the most capable Land Rover on sale – the new Defender will be going some to wrest that crown from it.

All the engines in the range are refined and flexible, and its chassis is remarkably supple for such a big vehicle. There’s no end of electronics working away in the background, but the effect is very

convincing – as is an interior that might make you wonder why you’d bother paying more for a Range Rover. Just be careful not to go wild with the options and end up paying more for a Discovery…

Pros: Immense blend of comfort and practicality Cons: Feels more like a softroader than a proper Discovery

Discovery 3/4 (2004-2017)

The Disco 3 is an astonishing allround vehicle. It’s good on the road

and capable off-road, genuinely luxurious and a giant of a tow truck, and as well as being able to seat seven adults it can be turned into a van with a totally flat rear load area.

The Disco was basically the same vehicle evolved; in the used market, it all comes down to your budget. The problem will always

Discovery Sport (2015-19)

The Discovery Sport packs seven seats into a Freelander-sized

body and dishes up an appealing all-round blend of comfort, kit and general driving manners.The third row of seats is only suitable for little ‘uns, though, and off-road it’s a Discovery in name only.

It’s a more practical proposition than the closely related Evoque, and you won’t need to live with the fear of Posh Spice okes. You

Discovery Sport (2019-on) The Disco Sport is a premium medium-sized SU . It’s available with seven seats and, by the standards of the competition, models with four-wheel drive offer a decent level of off-road ability.

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be maintenance costs – infamously, the timing belt is a body-off job, and rust is becoming more and more of an issue with these vehicles, too.

Pros: All-round ability, stunning practicality, luxury and kit on high-speccers Cons: Cam belts, handbrakes air suspension… the list goes on

£15,000-£35,000 might shudder at the price if you’re buying new, though – but on the used market, there are some tidy looking deals to be had, even on high-spec examples.

Pros: More practical than an Evoque, and less vulgar. Seven seats. Capable enough off-road Cons: Back seats only for small mammals. Price of top models

for the school run – and, with the arrival of a plug-in hybrid early last year, as a company car. uality has taken a step up from the first model, with far better chassis dynamics and overall refinement. There’s a range of

excellent drivetrains on offer, and the interior is a quantum leap ahead from the old model – it now feels fit to be called a Discovery, whereas the previous version was more of a Freelander. The Sport has grown into a convincing pre-

mium vehicle, and the range offers enough choices to suit anybody with the means to buy one.

Pros: Classy and practical cabin, all-round good to drive Cons: You can get a Defender for the price of some models

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76,000 miles. Ex-Telecom. Original, unmolested. Engine and boxes work well. Major rebuild 18 months ago inc chassis and bulkhead. MOT Apr. £9850. Carmarthen. 07852 595765 01/22/015

Series III 88” 2.25 Petrol HT (1984). Overdrive, FWH. Lots of welding to chassis and bulkhead.

New brakes/cylinders and clutch cylinder, bump stops, grille and bumper. MOT Aug. £7500. Newark.

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Series I 107” V8 Station Wagon (1958). Rebuilt 3.5 V8, recon SI box and transfer case. New brakes, HT system. Overdrive, FWH. Very good bodywork, interior almost as new. Used daily. £29,500. Retford.

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Series I 88” 2.25 petrol (1957).

80,569 miles. Series IIA engine and gearbox (both overhauled).

Also IIA back axle. Good bulkhead, new rear crossmember, many new parts. £12,895. Gloucestershire.

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On SORN and sold as a project – starts, drives and stops but just need finishing £3400. Bringsty, Worcestershire. 07518 611179.

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Series IIA Lightweight (1970).

40,800 miles. Ex-RAF. 2.5 TD (19J) engine. Solid Waxoyled chassis, parabolics, FWH, Fairey overdrive, new fuel tank, brake cylinders and more. MOT Sept. £10,950. Cheshire.

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Series III 109” Safari (1979).

16,000 miles. 2.25-litre with 4-speed and overdrive. Lots of history, been round Africa. Chassis and doors in bad shape, engine turns over. £3400. Cranbrook.

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Series III 109” HCPU (1982). 200 Tdi. Solid chassis, ok bulkhead, mechanically excellent. New clutch, exhaust, door tops, fuel tank, fuse box, props, water pump (all Genuine). £15,250. Andover.

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Series III 88” 3.5 V8 (1984).

Manual. Overdrive, FWH, electronic ignition. New rear crossmember and Exmoor hood. Solid chassis and bulkhead, just been fully serviced. MOT March. £8500. Wirral.

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Series III 88” 2286cc petrol (1983). 78,000 miles. Chassis repaired, solid bulkhead. Extensive overhaul, many new parts.. Fairey overdrive. TD5 bumper, Defender rims, winch. £8400. Blackburn.

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Series III 109” (1979). Rare Mine Protected vehicle. 2.25 petrol.

Served time in Rhodesia in the early 1980s, then Northern Ireland.

Believed to be one of only 9 made. £15,000. Leighton Buzzard.

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Series II 88” (1958). Totally original, rust free barn find from Australia. Perfect chassis and bulkhead, original engine, no parts missing certificate ery easy restoration project. £5500. Welshpool. 07929 222241 12/21/013

Series I 200 Tdi (1957). Chassis and bulkhead both solid (have been welded in the past). Brown faux leather upholstery. Recent service and new canopy. Tax/MOT exempt. £17,000. Faringdon.

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90 (1988). 205,000 miles. Galv chassis and bulkhead. Disco 200 Tdi (new cambelt), R380 box, Ashcroft halfshafts. Rewired, +2” errafirma lift, arn inch, leather MOT Oct. £19,995. Winchester.

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Defender 90 Hard-Top 2.2 TDCi (2015). 48,000 miles. Professionally undersealed. Soundproofed.

Heated leather seats, quilted nappa leather, panelled rear. FSH. MOT Oct. £37,000. Romford.

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Defender 110 HCPU (1988). Nut and bolt restoration on original chassis and bulkhead. 300 Tdi, LT77. Enormous list of new parts.

LED lights, heated seats, Apple CarPlay. Year’s MOT. £17,995.

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Defender 90 Td5 (2002).

89,185 miles. Galvanised chassis.

New clutch and brakes. All new suspension, fully polybushed.

Full service history. MOT 2022. £27,800. Cardigan. 07908 93314

Defender 110 300Tdi PickUp (1998). 125,000 miles.

Mechanically sound but chassis is rotten and will need welding or replacement for MOT. FSH, no MOT. £4000. Totnes. 07903 230396

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Defender 90 2.4 TDCi HT (2007).

80,223 miles. Acoustic headlining, wood-lined rear, tie-downs. New headlights and swivels in last 2 years. Garaged last 9 years. 2 sets of wheels. History. £16,490 Dorking 07793 257895 12/21/001

Series IIA London Ambulance Service Control Unit with trailer (1966). Only 5 made. Restored with advice from Ambulance service historic collection to ensure accuracy. £17,000. Leighton Buzzard. 07857 461166 12/21/014

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126,900 miles. 300 Tdi disc-brake rear axle. 2” lift, cranked radius arms, diff guards, snorkel, steering guard. LEDs, MPX grille. Long MOT. £9500. Buxton 07960 925523 01/22/042

Defender 90 2.4 TDCi Hard-Top (2009). 75,600 miles. CD, heated leather seats. Superb unmolested truc ema , i ercross air filter X-Tech alloys, brake upgrade. FSH. MOT Mar. £26,995. Newbury.

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An off-road toy and resto project combined Defender 90 TD5 HT (2003). Only 12,119 miles! Always garaged.

Unmarked interior. Full Dinitrol treatment. Looks and drives like new. Recent BFG All-Terrains. FSH. MOT Oct. £32,500. Lampeter.

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Defender 90 TD5 County (2005).

63,354 miles. Chassis and bulkhead immaculate (never welded).

Genuine A-bar, spotlights, snorkel.

Recent tyres. Recent service. FSH. MOT June. £22,500. Totnes.

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Defender 110 2.2 TDCi DC (2012).

104,000 miles. Air-con, leather, heated seats, electric windows, Boost alloys, fully carpeted. Side steps, factory snorkel, upgraded lights. Waxoyled. FSH. £28,500.

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Defender 90 Td5 CSW (2005).

181,000 miles. Twisted remap.

Corbeaus, LEDs, Trek Overland roof rack. Leather. BFGs. Stunning, reliable, drives like a dream. FSH. MOT Jan 22. £16,500. Newcastle.

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Defender 90 TD5 Pick-Up (1999).

145,000 miles. Galv chassis. Engine, box, suspension overhauled.

LEDs. New doors, seats, wheels, tyres. Immaculate engine bay. MOT Feb 2022. £16,750. Nairn. 07702 078659 12/21/004

Defender 110 (1986). 151,141 miles. 200 Tdi. Camper conversion.

Lift, sump guard, rock sliders. Audi seats, luetooth, sound roofing, diesel air heater. MOT Dec 21. £9950. Wrexham. ramblingtractor@yahoo.co.uk 12/21/030

Comp safari 90 4.6 V8 (1986).

135,000 miles. Edelbrock 4-barrel carb and manifold, electronic ignition, very good iring errafirma sus ension, full cage, fiddle bra es MOT Nov 22. £4750. Harrogate.

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Defender 90 300 Tdi Station Wagon (1997). 52,887 miles.

Heated seats. Recent clutch, cambelt, rear crossmember, steering, suspension. Fantasic interior History. MOT Oct. £16,999. Winchester.

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Defender 110 TD5 Station Wagon (2006). 125,000 miles.

Heavy-duty suspension, snorkel, LED lights. Alloys. Leather. Cubby bo ecent clutch and y heel MOT Nov. £18,995. Bedlington.

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Defender 90 300 Tdi Pick-up (1995). Full resto on galv chassis.

New brakes, suspension, bushes, PAS, clutch, timing belt, alternator, doors, tailgate, interior and more. £24,995. Ballyclare. 07843 800388 01/22/032

Defender 110 (2015). 81,300 miles. Heritage Adventurer model.

Stage 1 remap, 18” Bowler alloys, premium black leather. ARB roof rack and awning with walls.

Undersealed. FSH. £55,000. Poole.

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Defender 110 300 Tdi (1984).

480,000kms. LHD. Solid bulkhead, good interior, new shocks, springs, brakes, exhaust etc. Engine and bo rofessionally fitted efender axles. New MOT. £12,950. Axminster. 07968 206309 13/21/011

WHAT’S YOUR IDEA of the perfect Range Rover? A butch off-road warhorse that’s up for knockabout fun in the woods, perhaps? Or how about a project waiting to be restored back into a classic Classic?

Or you could have both. This macho looking four-door from 1988 has definitely seen some off-road action, and it has plenty of war wounds to show for it. As we all know, however, this sort of treatment can easily turn a later-life Rangey into a full-on shed – and no way is that what you’re looking at here.

Unlike so many of the ‘not your usual rubbish’ Land Rovers that turn out to be your usual rubbish, it’s also looking like a refreshingly honest motor.

‘I don’t want to mislead anyone,’ its owner Matt Panton told us when we asked if we could write about it being for sale. ’The body is a bit rotten in places. I don’t want people turning up to view it thinking it’s something it isn’t.

‘Don’t get me wrong, it’s not a basket case by any means. But it does want some love in places.’

Matt also asked us to point out that the Rangey’s winch, which is visible in some of these pictures, has now been removed. Again, refreshingly honest.

We’ve all heard stories of people turning up to view a vehicle, doing the deal then coming back the next day to pick it up and everything from the wheels and tyres to the engine has been swapped out for scrap-bin fodder overnight, so it’s good to know that you’re not dealing with that guy.

So, what are you dealing with? A 116,000-miler, that’s what, with the 3.9-litre V8 petrol engine from a 1997 Discovery bolted to the front of an automatic box. The engine has covered about 70,000 miles and had what Matt calls a ‘light refresh’ before going in last year – by which he means changing all the gaskets, re-seating all the valves and changing the timing gear and water pump. It also runs a full Megasquirt conversion, giving it much better water resistance, and a custom exhaust with 4-into-1 stainless headers – ‘much more free-flowing than standard,’ says Matt, ‘and sounds amazing!’

All good, then. But it gets better. If you were to want to restore this Range Rover into the smooth operator it once was, Matt also still has its original 3.5-litre V8. So while it’s far from original in its current state, the potential is there to turn it back in a pristine Classic with a full set of matching numbers.

In the meantime, you’re looking at an off-road beast with a tidy range of good equipment. The winch may be gone but both axles have been upgraded to stronger, 24-spline, running gear from a late Discovery 1. In addition, the rear has been fitted with an Ashcroft limited slip diff – giving the vehicle a huge advantage on extremely slippery or uneven ground. A set of good-asnew 265/75R16 Insa Turbo Special Tracks do it no harm here, and nor does a

suspension set-up featuring +2” Terrafirma medium-duty springs, extended De Carbon shocks, dislocation cones and extended brake lines. ’There aren’t many places this old barge won’t get,’ remarks Matt. ‘In total comfort, too – it’s like off-roading an armchair!’

Heavy-duty bumpers and rock sliders protect the bodywork from the worst of what’s apt to happen when you go off-road – though as we’re mentioned above, its bodywork is one area in which the Rangey does need a bit of love.

It’s already had some welding, with the footwells patched and the body mounts rebuilt in the last year, and Matt reckons the next areas wanting attention will be the sills and inner wings, the boot floor around the fuel filler (the rest is aluminium and in good shape), a hole in the base of the driver’s side A-pillar and a small hole in the driver’s footwell.

Enough to be going on with, then, though ‘nothing is so bad that it wants doing immediately.’

Obviously, in terms of its presentation, the panels and paintwork is that of an off-roader. And the interior is variously tatty and missing, with no carpets, a torn driver’s seat base, and the inevitable saggy headlining. The top tailgate is ‘quite rotten,’ though the vehicle will come with a replacement. ‘I was waiting until it fell to bits completely before fitting the new one,’ says Matt, though the original does still work so that could take long enough.

So, is this a turn-key off-road toy or a project waiting to happen? It very much depends on how you view old Range Rovers – though of course you could always rag it round the playdays for a year or two then pull off the mud kit and flog it to get you started on the road back to perfection. Two projects for the price of one?

Talking of the price, it’s £3450. And however much work you’re letting yourself in for by taking on an old stager like this, that’s a lot of Range Rover for your money. It’s located in Suffolk and you’ll find it advertised on page 46.

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Defender 110 Wolf 300 Tdi (1988). 78,200 miles. Remus upgrade. All as original from MOD. 24-volt. Undersealed. Anti-vibration acoustic matting. Good tyres. MOT Nov. £14,250. Barnet.

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Defender 90 200 Tdi CSW (1992). 188,000 miles. Solid chassis and bulkhead. Rear discs.

Alloys. Drives faultlessly. Some war wounds and corrosion to door bottoms. MOT Nov. £8295. Lichfield.

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Defender TD5 110 Double-Cab (2003). 119,500 miles. Overland prepped . Custom roof rack, lockers and canopy. HD bumper, steering guard, jerry can mounts. Recent clutch and rear diff. £15,495.

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Discovery 200Tdi Ambulance (1991). 39,500 miles. One-off 116” factory prototype. HD suspension, refurbished body.

Ply-lined rear. Many spares. MOT Sep 22. £14,995. Biggleswade. sawfords@hotmail.co.uk 12/21/016

Discovery Tdi 50th Anniversary (1998). 140,000 miles. Manual.

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Extensive service history, new MOT. Inspection welcome. £4995.

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Discovery Td5 ES Premium (2003). 87,000 miles on new engine ro fit, ith a er or Manual. Factory diff lock, +2” lift, 33” tyres, snorkel, steel bumpers.

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107” daily driver NOW, HERE’S A BEAUTIFUL THING. You’ll recognise it as a 107” Series I Station Wagon – though without looking more carefully you might not spot that there’s a V8 engine lurking beneath its bonnet.

From a classic point of view, this might sour the deal. But if you think old Land Rovers should be driven, it’s unlikely to put you off. Not least because the V8 in question is a 3.5 that’s been rebuilt with an Edelbrock manifold, carb and air filter from JVR8, an alloy radiator and a set of new parts including an SU fuel pump and full HT system. The wiring has been overhauled, too, and the whole thing has recently had a full service.

Behind the engine, a reconditioned Series I gearbox and transfer case send drive to the wheels. That’s when the Fairey freewheeling hubs are engaged, of course. There’s also a reconditioned Fairey overdrive on board, too, as well as new hub and swivel seals, new brakes and cylinders and, praise the Lord, a rebuilt Smiths heater.

‘Everything works as it should and it keeps up with modern traffic,’ says Dalton Penarski-Grant, who currently has the 107 listed for £29,500. ‘I’ve just returned from a 600-mile trip around the Lake District and it didn’t miss a beat.’

In terms of its appearance, the Land Rover is ‘very straight and has been sprayed and not rollered or brushed.’ The chassis and bulkhead are solid as a rock, having been sandblasted a few years back, and Dalton rates the

footwells, A-posts and windscreen surround as ‘exceptional.’ The body panels on the other hand are good but not without their character marks. ‘Taking it green laning wouldn’t bring tears to your eyes’ is how Dalton describes it, and you don’t need to have done much of that to know exactly what he’s on about.

The interior, meanwhile, is ‘almost as new’ and that’s a claim you don’t often hear people making about unrestored sixtysomething Land Rovers. A retrim a few years ago did it proud, and it’s still dining out on that now.

Dalton says the 107 will come with a few spares including window channels, door seals and an entire Series I gearbox. No harm in that when there’s a V8 chucking all its power through the existing one, you’d have to say. You’re not getting a readymade concours winner for your £29,500, but you certainly are getting a splendidly usable everyday classic with bags of character and an engine to make you smile. It’s located in Lincolnshire and you’ll find it by turning back a page.

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Discovery 300 Tdi 3dr (1996).

186,000 miles. 7-seater. Needs usual welding. Very good body, hardly a dent. Starts, drives and runs well but smokes a bit. Lots of history. No MOT. £2495. Nuneaton.

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Discovery 3 2.7 TDV6 Commercial (2008). 123,000 miles. Climate, cruise, leather, snorkel, Allisport intercooler. New (not recon) turbo and box, prop, brakes, suspension compressor. MOT Mar. £8500. Daventry. 07989 162886 13/21/002

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Range Rover 3.6 TDV8 Vogue (2009). 152,000 miles. Cruise, leather, CD, TV reception etc. Drives well, no box changes smoothly, no faults showing. Tidy inside and out. History. MOT Aug. £8250. Fife.

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Range Rover 3.9 auto (1988).

116,000 miles. +2” springs, Insas, rear LSD, LED bar, Disco engine with Megasquirt conversion.

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Range Rover 3.9 EFi Vogue SE Auto (1992). 94,000 miles. All welding done professionally. Many new parts inc HT system, starter motor, brakes, lights, head lining.

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Discovery 300TDI 3 door 95H 125K miles.

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Range Rover 4.6 Vogue (2000).

145,523 miles. LPG (runs well).

Top-end rebuild, new rad, water pump, cat, exhaust, shocks, air springs, ball joints, bushes and more. MOT Oct. £2995. Buntingford. 07748596280 01/22/003

Range Rover Vogue 3.6 TDV8 (2008). 181,000 miles. Good inside and out, good alloys, drives smoothly at 30mpg, air suspension works correctly. Recent full service.

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Range Rover Sport 2.7 TDV6 (2005). 115,000 miles. Vemiri body it, verfinch alloys, layer Heated seats and screen, leather interior in VCG. Sat-nav, Bluetooth.

FSH, MOT Nov. £5995. Doncaster.

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Wood and Pickett Range Rover (1988). Once owned by Elton John. £75k resto including all new wood and leather. New 10-speaker stereo. Rebuilt engine with upgraded EFI. FSH. £90,000. Southampton.

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Range Rover Sport 4.4 V8 (2005).

182,000 miles. Sat-nav, cruise, sunroof, heated seats. Stunning example, drives perfectly, no knocks or bangs from suspension. FSH. MOT June. £4995. Newbridge.

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Range Rover 3.5 V8 (1989).

94,500 miles. Full Service History – 18 stamps! Manual. Air-con. New sills and cali ers heels er fect headlining. Good electrics.

MOT May. £10,000. Bakewell.

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Range Rover Sport 3.6 TDV8 (2007). 103,000 miles. Sat-nav, cruise, climate, leather, park assist.

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Range Rover 3.5 In Vogue 3rd Edition plus donor (1983). 95,589 miles. Manual. Very rare (only 325 made), all matching numbers, full resto but donor has all the bits you need. £4750. Holsworthy.

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Range Rover Sport 3.0 HSE (2012). 80,000 miles. Autobiography upgrade, unmarked Pearl Blue, 22” Khan alloys. Air-con, sat-nav, fridge, DAB, TV. New cambelts, discs and pads at 70k. FSH. £14,995.

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Lightweight /Range Rover V8 Hybrid. Range Rover chassis and running gear. New PAS box and hoses, brakes, fuel pump. Tax/MOT exempt but comes with new MOT. £9995. Taunton. 01823 327555

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Discovery Sport 2.0 TD4 180 SE Tech (2015). 71,000 miles. Manual. Climate, cruise, cream leather, electric heated seats, parking sensors. Drives well and looks great £18,250. Leicester.

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