Land-Rover

Best of British. (At least up until 2018 when the last ‘Proper’ Land Rover rolled off the production line at Solihull. I’m no fan of the modern cars.)

Why do I like Land Rovers?

Teenage boys usually have posters on their wall. Nothing unusual about, I did too. Except mine weren’t of glamour models or music bands. My 1980’s bedroom walls were covered by pictures I’d cut out of 4x4 Magazines. Mostly Land-Rovers.

At work meetings, I’d noticed people drew the same sorts of things over and over. One person drew horse heads, another geometric shapes, one did only angry spiky triangles! I drew Land Rovers. I’d supressed that as I’d gotten older, but in 2018 I had some upset at work that led to a fairly dark time in my life as I dealt with depression and anxiety. As my job had spread itself into most aspects of my private life too, I wanted something constructive to occupy my time and one night it occured to me – why not buy an old land rover that needs some love and fix it up?

I talked it over with my wife and she was supportive (even when she learned it would involve building a car port in front of the house!) and I started looking.