What was your first interaction with the Land Rover?
It was summer 2015 and my morning routine was pretty much the same each day: spend a couple of hours commuting to London in my Series IIA, then enjoy five minutes checking a few Land Rover forums with a coffee in hand before everyone else arrived in the office. The first new post I saw on the Series 2 Club forum was one asking for advice on what to do with a vehicle that hadn’t been on the road for a number of years and that turned out to be this particular example.
Nothing particularly unusual about that though, so what grabbed your attention?
There was a brief description of the vehicle and half a dozen pictures. I’m a sucker for any classic that wears its age with pride and even more so when there’s some old signwriting involved and so my heart rate was up from the start. With my journalist head on and reading that it had done an overland journey in period, my first thought was that it would potentially make an excellent article, but that was quickly accompanied by the very real fear that the ‘wrong’ person might convince the family that it needed restoring and the signwriting and
