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Barn fresh

Installing the Bavarias in their new digs required shuffling a number of the farm vehicles around. Old farms, particularly as run by my landlord, Donald Campbell, tend to accumulate all sorts of...

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Aston leaving the Blue Oval?

Last week’s surprise announcement by the Ford Motor Company that they would consider selling the Aston Martin brand, which they purchased in its entirety in 1987, started the industry rumor mill...

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DAFspotting

So I heard through the grapevine about the DAF Club of America‘s first Mountain Micro/Mini Madness event this past weekend up in Manchester, not half an hour from Bennington. I had the time over the...

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FC Landy

You know we love the FC trucks, but we had no idea Land Rover was in the game. But one recently turned up at Brightwells among their late model Pathfinders and Grand Cherokees, where it stomped them...

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India: Britain’s favored supplier of teas, Jaguars and Land Rovers?

Indian automaker Tata Motors appears to be poised to purchase Land Rover and Jaguar from Ford. In a scoop reported by Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car’s foreign correspondent Nick Kurczewski,...

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Four-Links – roving Landy, Tjaarda teardropper, the return of c4c?, Jeepers...

* What’s cooler than a Forward Control Land Rover? How about taking one on various expeditions around the world, as this South African couple did? (via, kinda) * John Tjaarda, working for Briggs...

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Four-Links – Vegas on end, Goddard at Land Rover, Barker, Bucciali

* I’ve always read about how the Chevrolet Vega was built/designed to be shipped on its nose in special train cars from the factory, but I’d never seen any pictures of Vegas actually hanging, hamhock...

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Six Degrees of Automotive Separation – Land Rover

Last week’s Hemmings Six Degrees of Automotive Separation Challenge didn’t go off that well. Ducatis, it appears, are not the forte of our regular participants. So let’s tread back toward familiar...

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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1984 Land Rover

I thought about saving this ex-MOD 1984 Land Rover Series III 109 for this year’s March Military Campaign, but I’m afraid the ad for it may expire before then, so consider this a MMC preview. From the...

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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1973 Land Rover Series III Model 88

Khaki, I believe, is the perfect color for a Land Rover, and this 1973 Land Rover Series III Model 88 appears to wear it well. Get yourself a matching set of khaki riding trousers and a pith helmet,...

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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1980 Land Rover Series III

Ready to drive around the world? And to do it on a budget? You probably won’t find a much better start than this ex-Australian 1980 Land Rover Series III FFR, which already has some of the outfitting...

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Four-Links – Little Oscar, Woodward history, Jeep rebodies, Australian...

* While digging around for our quick story on the 75th anniversary of the Wienermobile this week, we came across the above photo at These Americans, which shows the later, Fifties-style Wienermobile...

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Four-Links – Holden’s Hurricane restored, London to Singapore, annualmobiles,...

* If you didn’t catch it this week, a group of employees of Holden – GM’s Australian arm – recently restored the 1969 Holden Hurricane concept car and didn’t overlook all the pioneering techno...

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Four-Links – 4WD VW, Drive Nacho Drive, Wild Rovers, On the Road

* We all know that Volkswagen built Syncro Vanagons, but as Ronan Glon at Ran When Parked showed this week, a couple engineers at Volkswagen pushed to adapt four-wheel-drive to the Volkswagen Type 2...

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Skills 101 – Off-road driving techniques

Once you leave the pavement, pretty much all of your on-road driving techniques become null and void. Off-road driving takes a completely different mindset and skillset, the basics of which this Land...

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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1986 Land Rover Defender 110

The Land Rover Defender can trace its lineage directly back to to the original Land Rover Series I, first launched in 1948, which means it carries the same go-absolutely-anywhere credibility of its...

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Landie leftovers

Now that Jaguar and Land Rover have left the building at Ford’s ex-PAG facility in Irvine, and one wing is being cordoned off to be Taco Bell’s new headquarters (seriously), what will they do with...

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Four-Links – death of an off-road icon, lost car carriers, 3D printing a 1927...

* Land Rover’s iconic Defender can trace its roots back to the 1948 Series I, an SUV that provided go-anywhere capability for fans around the globe. Now, after nearly seven decades of production,...

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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1960 Land Rover Series II

When it comes to Series II Land Rovers, we’re used to seeing them in scratched, dented and semi-abused condition; after all, Land Rover has generally been the go-to vehicle of choice for explorers...

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Jaguar announces restoration service and support for its classic cars

A Jaguar Heritage Racing D-Type awaits its next event. Photos courtesy Jaguar Land Rover. Own a vintage Mercedes-Benz, and repair or restoration can be booked through the Mercedes-Benz Classic Center....

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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1959 Land Rover Series II Model 88

There’s a certain mechanical honesty to early Land Rovers that’s missing from modern SUVs. Simple, (relatively) reliable and able to competently traverse a wide variety of terrain, buying a Land Rover...

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After 68 years, Land Rover bids farewell to the Defender

Land Rovers, old and new, on the beach at Red Wharf Bay. Photos courtesy Jaguar Land Rover. In 1947, a legend was created on a beach at Red Wharf Bay in Anglesey, U.K., when Maurice Wilks, engineering...

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Get Your Vintage Mud On!

Photo courtesy The Muddy Chef Challenge. Owners of classic cars have more vintage race, rally and touring events to choose from than ever before these days. But what about owners of old-school, 4 x 4...

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Land Rover announces launch of Heritage division

Range Rover Classic, to be shown at the 2015 Techno Classica. Photos courtesy Jaguar Land Rover. By Land Rover’s own estimation, 70-percent of the vehicles it’s built since the first Series I rolled...

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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1954 Land Rover Series 1 fire tender

It’d probably be tough to get insurance and state regulators to sign off on putting this 1954 Land Rover Series 1 fire tender for sale on Hemmings.com back into service, which would be a shame, given...

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Defender to the End: 1997 Land Rover full-line brochure

All brochure images are from the collection of Mark J. McCourt There’s been a lot of press focusing on the imminent demise of the classic Land Rover, AKA the Defender, but this Indian-owned British...

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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1971 Land Rover Series IIA 88 station wagon

Land Rovers, especially the stout Series II and IIA models, have long been associated with off-road adventure in exotic locations. If that’s your primary goal, this 1971 Land Rover Series IIA 88...

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Homeland Security to return seized Land Rover Defenders to U.S. buyers

1995 Land Rover Defender 90. Photos courtesy Jaguar Land Rover. Last July, agents from the Department of Homeland Security, working with local law enforcement, seized more than two-dozen Land Rover...

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Off-roading in a classic Land Rover? It’s all part of the brand’s Heritage...

A Land Rover Series III, one of the Heritage Collection vehicles available to drive. Photos courtesy Jaguar Land Rover. Want to go off-roading in a classic Land Rover Series I or expedition-prepped...

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Beast of Turin, oldest Land Rover among nominees for IHMA Car of the Year

The “Beast of Turin” Fiat S76. Still image from video by Stefan Marjoram, below. It is, by all accounts, massive and violent, standing nearly as tall as the men who built it. Its fire-spewing...

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The Defender 2,000,000 becomes the most valuable Land Rover ever sold at auction

The 2,000,000th Land Rover Defender. Images courtesy Jaguar Land Rover. By any measure, it was an unusual auction: A single lot was presented on stage at Bonhams’s Bond Street showroom in London,...

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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1987 Land Rover 100 NCF Sahara

By almost anyone’s standards, the Land Rover Defender is a supremely capable off-road beast, but there are places that even a Defender fears to tread. That’s where this 1987 Land Rover 100 NCF Sahara,...

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Four-Links – Stude Museum director retiring, last Land Rover Defender, GNRS...

After a 15-year run as executive director of the Studebaker National Museum, Rebecca Bonham retired yesterday, handing the reins over to Patrick Slebonick. The South Bend Tribune took the opportunity...

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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1973 Land Rover 109

To the best of our knowledge, there’s no kit form of old Land Rovers like there is for, say, the Lotus 7. This pieced-together-from-NOS-parts 1973 Land Rover 109 for sale on Hemmings.com, thus, comes...

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New Hershey auction proves that even The Finest cars can be affordable

1923 Hupmobile Series R-11. Photos courtesy The Finest Automobile Auctions. With a name like The Finest Automobile Auctions, one would assume that the upstart company’s debut live sale, tied to The...

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Four-Links – return of the Defender?, Dubonnet prototype, Mongol rally, 1979...

The Defender is dead, right? Not so fast. As Ronan Glon at Ran When Parked reported, a British businessman hasn’t let Jaguar Land Rover’s denial of permission to continue the Defender’s production...

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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1971 Land Rover 109 Dormobile

1971 Land Rover 109 Dormobile camper conversion for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Original and rare Martin Walter Dormobile conversion to a new Land Rover 109 series IIa Station...

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Skating away, behind the wheel of a classic British car

Part of the fleet available for the Classic Ice Driving school. Photo courtesy Jaguar Land Rover. In January, the average high temperature in Arjeplog, Sweden, reaches 19-degrees Fahrenheit, and it...

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