THE TIMELESS SNAPPER
WHY a 1973 Series III and not something more modern? I do love old Defenders but my roots lie in Series Land Rovers, where bits fall off and you have to fix them yourself and you don’t have to bust the bank in the process. They are like Lego; everything rattles and you can just take the roof off for the summer.
Why do you use a Land Rover for your work? In Queenstown, New Zealand, where I live there are a heap of them around, one of the local tourist companies has several 110s and I always see them about. At the start of my career there was a part of me that wanted a 4x4 as it would be able to get me to seemingly inaccessible places.
My mate has a Series II which has been used in big commercial shoots and when we used to drive around in that I knew that I too wanted an old Series Land Rover. I asked my sponsors for some help with buying a Stage One V8 and they agreed that this would help me to do more adventurous stuff.
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