Earlier this year I was able to acquire six genuine workshop posters, originally issued by Land Rover Ltd in January 1989. These fantastic cutaway drawings are made by artist Chris Baker and were printed in a circulation of 1.000 each after which they were distributed to Land Rover dealers worldwide. Due to their fragile nature […]
In 1989 the Cold War came to an end, fortunately we still have the pictures! These are some previously unseen images of the Land Rover Series 3 ambulance in Dutch Army service. The government of the Netherlands purchased 534 examples of the Mickleover Transport Co. Ltd built battlefield ambulance. That battlefield would have been Germany, […]
To celebrate the 30th birthday of the original Range Rover, and to flog some extra cars, in 2000 Land Rover introduced the limited edition 30th Anniversary Range Rover. With its Autobiography-colour Wimbledon Green and a bespoke interior it distinguished itself from lesser Range Rovers. Although it was very well specced, there was one option: a […]
In the months before the introduction of the Land Rover Discovery Series II, Land Rover was still selling as much Discovery 1 models as it could build, attracting buyer interest with special editions like the Anniversary and this UK only Discovery Safari special edition. Is it worth hunting down? The Land Rover Discovery Safari was […]
Most owners of classic Land-Rovers carry a nicely filled toolbox in the car, which can come in handy in the unfortunate circumstance your car breaks down. From the 1960’s to the 1980’s, Tooley of Earl Shilton converted complete Land-Rover Series and 110 cars into mobile toolboxes: ‘Take your workshop to the breakdown’ – some Land-Rovers […]
A British racing green 1974 Range Rover that once belonged to Pieter van Vollenhoven, husband of princess Margriet of the Netherlands, was recently stolen in Wijlre, The Netherlands. Owner Hans Creusen was about to finish a 27 year restoration of the originally Lincolnshire green Suffix Range Rover, when it was taken from his driveway mid […]
In an earlier post I published some rare images of armoured Series 1 vehicles, as used in Malaya in the 1950’s. Thanks to visitor Spencer Owen, another armoured Land-Rover Series 1 model with oriental origins is unearthed. This 80 inch model was advertised in 1952 and the conversion to bullet-proof was done locally. Since this […]
Recently I acquired this strange looking 90/110 front panel. Although it looks standard at first sight, the top goes past the radiator on a Land Rover 90/110 and it is not made of aluminium but a form of plastic. Having absolutely zero idea who made and marketed it and what it was for, I put […]
Around 1955, the Land-Rover marketing department commisioned the by that time highly regarded British artist Terence Cuneo to paint at least five works featuring the Series 1 for use in bochures, advertisements and on posters. One of the these original commisioned paintings sold in 2016 at auction for 7.000 GBP, the whereabouts of the other […]
