Patience is a virtue!
IT HAD to be true love! Why else would a Lancashire lad desert his newly-restored Lightweight Land Rover, to say nothing of his family and his hometown, and emigrate 3750 miles from Belmont, Lancashire, to Oshkosh, Wisconsin? Steve Owen grew up on the family farm a few miles north of Bolton, and as well as Land Rovers his other passion was aeroplanes. And it was aeroplanes that were the root cause of the upheaval.
“I’ve been a planespotter since I was ten or eleven years old,” says Steve, “That’s when dad took me to Manchester’s Ringway airport for a day out. It was a lot more interesting than a day on the beach at Southport and I was hooked! My passion for Land Rovers began around the same time when I learned to drive in a short wheelbase Series III on the farm and later delivered milk from it. Dad also owned a 1959 Series II 109 soft top which we restored together later in its life, and later on I had a 1974 Lightweight which I completely rebuilt but had
