Every couple of months, a copy of Legend – the magazine of the Land-Rover Series One Club, lands on my desk and I drop what I’m doing and begin the ever-joyful task of flicking through the colourful mag.
Since I got shot of my Series IIa back at the tail end of last year, it’s fair to say that I’ve missed the back-to-basics go anywhere nature of the Landie. Okay, so it was only on rare occasions that it did actually get tested, but it was kind of reassuring to know that this automotive knight in shining armour was waiting just outside of the front door should the world turn bad. New owner, C&SC publisher, Tim Bulley isn’t making things easy either with his Monday-morning tales of how ‘heroic’ SVR 35H has been over the weekend!
Even though the lack of use and cost of fuel were the two things that persuaded me to sell the IIa, those reasons are already fading into the annals of time and I find myself frequently poring over the classifieds and drooling enviously over the images in Legend. Not for a Series II though: the next time a classic Landie appears on my drive, it will be a Series I, arguably the definitive Land-Rover.
Oddly, I had previously dismissed the Series I as looking a bit awkward compared to the II and IIa.
