Puppy on patrol

Many campers and off-road enthusiasts are biased toward certain brands. And who can blame them when they get years of great service from their gear or when the brand runs in the family? That was exactly the way Rick Schampers felt about Land Rover, and he happily admits to having owned four before he laid his hands on this rare find.

“I’ve always had Land Rovers, and when I moved to Norway from Holland, I owned a 2003 Defender Td5. The import taxes in Norway are extremely high and when I enquired about taking my Landy across with me, I was faced with paying a sum of €15 000 (more than R250 000 in 2017) to get the car legally registered in the new country. The Defender wasn’t even worth that, so I sold it before I moved.

While browsing to buy a Land Rover in Norway I came across the Volvo L3314, or Valp (which loosely translates to puppy) – as it was dubbed throughout Scandinavia