I came across this in the news today.
https://jalopnik.com/the-very-first-land-rover-has-been-unearthed-1821933073
https://jalopnik.com/the-very-first-land-rover-has-been-unearthed-1821933073
I thought they had actually found the first center steer Land Rover prototype. My reaction to that is more meh than astonishment.
Sounds like it was a prototype:
This will, clearly, be the oldest thing they?ll work on, since it was built for the 1948 Amsterdam Motor Show at which Land Rover was introduced to the world.
It seems that 48 of these original original Land Rovers, which were really pre-production prototypes, were built around the same time. This one, according to Land Rover, ended up being registered and presumably sold to somebody in 1955.
Yeah. center steer prototype would be astonishing. An early prototype of production is meh in my opinion in terms of impressiveness.
I’m kinda over this restoration shit. Jonathan Ward would probably do it better, anyway.
Did this guy look at the ICON Defender and think "Wow, that looks good".