Building a collection

RICK Watts is a larger-than-life kind of bloke with boundless energy and enthusiasm for everything that’s important to him, whether it’s his family or working hard to grow and develop his successful building business. He’s a big-hearted guy with a passion for military vehicles and all things Land Rover, and he’s now reached that point in life where he has a bit more time and some spare cash to indulge his ambition to develop an interesting collection of Land Rovers.

Unlike many serious Land Rover fans, though, he doesn’t have a childhood story to tell that explains his Land Rover obsession. “There were no Land Rovers in our family when I was growing up,” he reveals, “but my dad was a very competent mechanic and he always worked on our family cars. One of my best childhood memories is helping him replace the clutch in our Morris Marina, which we did in the middle of our holiday caravan site. Pulling the caravan is probably what led to us having