When I was very young my Dad worked "at the Rover". I remember going to the Works Xmas Party there and one of the things set up to amuse us kids was a ride around the test track in the back of a Land Rover. We were all jammed in the back and were taken up and down inclines and through deep muddy pools. We loved it. That would've been in the 1940s, no Risk Assessment then, present day 'elf & safety fanatics would spontaneously combust if they'd seen it !
Baz, in the 70's I worked at Land Rover through my contracting job. Although now a necessity due to where I live and what I do, I think it was when I was at Land Rover that I got the bug, so to speak.
They were still making the Series 111's at that time and the Dutch Army Light Weight Land Rover. My main vehicle is a 1996 Defender 300TDI, I have just done a load of work on it, new suspension, brakes, Calipers and Discs and rear cross member. I don't go in for tarting up, snorkels etc. These old Land Rovers were well designed and do what they were built for reliably.
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