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PART 6 OF 6: Last year, Heritage Classic Car Insurance worked with Land Rover Monthly to introduce Drive 25: a magazine full of driving adventures and information about your Landys. This year, we’ve been lucky enough to bring Drive 25 back as a feature in LRM. Over the last six months, we’ve collected Landy stories from all over the UK: your favourite destinations, best memories and the history behind every single Land Rover. We’ve now reached our final feature, and hope you’ve enjoyed these stories just as much as we have! We’d also like to say a big thank you to everybody who’s taken part. If you’d like to send us some feedback, please email the team at marketing@heritagecarinsurance.co.uk

RICK ATKINS, ISLE OF WIGHT

OCCUPATION: Oil rig worker

MY DRIVE: Series II

DREAM DESTINATION: Route 66

LANDY LIFE ON THE ISLAND: Rick’s love for Landys started in the 1990s, when he and his wife lived just outside central London. “We needed a car which could manage the road,” he recalls, “so we bought our first Land Rover, which was a short wheelbase. It started from there, really and we’ve had a Land Rover in the family ever since.

“The Land Rover that we own now is an 11-seater convertible Series II, which we bought when we moved back to the Isle of Wight. My brother-in-law owns a Land Rover restoration company on the island, and one day he told me he had a customer selling a big ex-military Series II which he thought I might be interested in. I remember pulling up to his place, and it was parked in the driveway. I immediately loved the look of it – it was clean and in pretty good nick – so I decided then and there that I wanted to buy it.”

Rick’s Series II has quite a history behind it. ‘It was used in the army, and after that as a fire truck at Bembridge Airport, so it’s had a very busy life,” he explains. “It was owned by one of the guys working at the airport, and he’d done it up so it was