British Day 7: Land Rover Series One
Assuming that I had just won the lottery, one of my lesser purchases would be one of these...
...the venerable Series One Land Rover. On those one of two sunny Friday evenings that we have each summer I simply cannot think of a more perfect car for driving over to The Englishman’s & thence, across his fields to the pub. In fact, as it’s a perfect evening I wouldn’t just have the canvas off – the screen would be down & the doors off to boot.
Comments
Agreed...without doors and screen it is a fine looking vehicle.
Posted by: thud | July 31, 2009 12:06 PM
and great for shooting from!
Posted by: chris Edwards | July 31, 2009 12:09 PM
The 'Elf 'N Safety Nazis would have yer balls... assuming, that is, that they could get through the hail of fire coming from the Landy.
Posted by: Kim du Toit | July 31, 2009 3:36 PM
As its a 'classic car', its exempt just about everything including Road Tax - all the more reason for having one in my eyes
Posted by: Mr Free Market | July 31, 2009 11:48 PM
I had one of those as a 'driving to work' car when I was stationed at RAF Bentwaters. I think I paid L450 for it. Someplace at home I have a picture of it with a pintle mounted M60 machine gun mounted in the back from some exercise. Remember one very snowy day pulling panda cars out of the ditch.
Posted by: walt | August 1, 2009 4:14 PM
Just how hard is it to get parts for something like this:
http://www.coldwarremarketing.com/vehicles.asp?s=Land%20Rover
anyway?
Posted by: Billy Oblivion | August 3, 2009 8:58 PM
Sole formof motor transport for this C/S
Posted by: EX_STAB | August 5, 2009 8:04 PM