Vehicle Description
We still need to complete the final details of the build on this
Defender. Contact us for more information.All vehicles are stored
in out Aiken, SC climate-controlled showroom. The inventory shown
is owned, maintained, and driven by us here at Car Cave USA. For
more pictures, information, video, and to view our large inventory
of left-hand drive Defenders please visit www.carcaveusa.com or
call 803-262-4742.The Land Rover car design takes us back to a
beach in Wales, just after WW2. The very beginning of Land Rover
itself is the fabled story of brothers Maurice and Spencer Wilks,
sketching out the simple design of what would become an enduring
and iconic classic 4WD vehicle.A simple design, because times were
hard. Cause, well, the war. Materials, even the most basic ones,
were hard to come by. Remind anyone of this past year? Hard times
require a vehicle that is tough as nails. But with a dash of fun
thrown in. Like this Defender 110 with a factory V8, a safari cage
and soft top. Ready to tear up the nearest dirt road or a quick
jaunt into town. Yes, even in winter. This is after all a car for
hard men/women/people. However you identify, you can find yourself
in this beautiful beast. Coping with hard times and having some fun
doing it is in its bones. 73 years after its conception it is
relevant as ever. Even if you don't want to go hauling livestock.
You can always drive it to the next Woodstock. And we've upgraded
it for 2022!- Fresh new paint job- Mechanically overhauled-
Injection system with the original 3.5 V8 engine. The carbs have
been swapped for the injection.- Brand new steel rims- Brand new
all terrain Cooper 305/70 R16 tyres.- New soft top with roll cage
and 6 new back seats.Mechanically and mentally more than ready to
hit the road and the dirt. Land Rover have for decades maintained
that around 70% of all Land Rovers made are still in use. Old Land
Rovers never die: they just get modified into something even more
amazing. Case in point!Please contact us for more pictures, video,
a test drive or a Zoom call. Or if you are nearby the east of
Belgium, close to the Dutch and German border, please stop
by.History of the Land Rover DefenderBack to that beach in Wales.
Brothers Maurice and Spencer Wilks sketching out the simple design
of what would become an iconic classic. Maurice Wilks, an engineer,
had an army surplus Jeep on his farm at Anglesey, and was impressed
with its basic recipe of utility and capability, without being a
full-blown tractor. He and his brother Spencer, who was also the
managing director of Rover, began musing about the potential of a
new model for Rover that followed along similar lines.Post-war
England didn't need another luxury sedan or high-tech engine. What
it did need was cheap, rugged versatility. Imagine a vehicle that
could do the hard yards around the farm: haul livestock, plough
through mud and drag heavy gear. That's the kind of work a tractor
does, but you can't really jump into a tractor and then drive into
town, right?At a place called Red Wharf Bay, on the island of
Anglesey (just off the north-western corner of Wales), the first
sketch was made on the exposed mud flats at low tide. Spencer
approved.They developed the first Land Rover, an agriculturally
focused four-wheel-drive truck with a steel frame and an aluminum
body. It entered production in 1948 and what would come to be known
as the Land Rover Series I. It was offered in various
configurations that differed in wheelbase, door count, and body
style. The Series II made its debut 10 years later in 1958. Its
exterior design featured the same inboard headlights and boxy
profile as the Series I but added a pronounced shoulder line
running the length of the vehicle. Options like door cards and side
mirrors were available for the first time.In 1971, Land Rover
released the Series III. Headlights were moved away from the grille
out to the fenders, which easily differentiated the Series III from
its predecessors. Land Rover added synchros to the manual
transmission and moved the gauges in front of the steering wheel
from their former home in the center of the dash. A V-8-powered
model was introduced in 1979. Because of the V-8's larger
dimensions, Land Rover pushed the grille forward and flush with the
front fenders, giving the SUV's front end the shape that would
define it for the next three decades.Land Rover 110That design
carried over to the Land Rover One-Ten and Land Rover Ninety (later
badged 110 and 90), introduced in 1983. This marked the first time
a Land Rover utilized the coil-spring suspension from the Range
Rover to replace the old cars' archaic leaf-spring design. Various
quality-of-life improvements like a more comfortable interior and
modernized engine lineup made tremendous strides in on-road driving
manners.Rover had the luxury Range Rover to appeal to the folks
with substantial wallets who were looking for a comfortable car
that would be equally at home on the motorway or off-road heading
up to Scotland for a spot of deer stalking or other such
activities.It was and is a superbly capable automobile, more
capable than a Land Rover, but also expensive and too pretty to get
dented and scratched doing some serious expedition travel. Rover's
boffins decided that they needed an 'in-between' model that would
offer some of the comfort and highway capability of the Range
Rover, but at a more modest price.To this end they created the Land
Rover Discovery which was introduced in 1989. Having three models,
but only two with names, Rover decided to give the humble Land
Rovers a name also and so, partly because the Land Rover had appeal
to military and emergency services customers, they decided to call
it the Land Rover Defender. This name coming into use in 1991, the
Land Rover One Ten being re-named the Land Rover Defender 110,
whilst the Ninety was re-named the Land Rover Defender 90.The Land
Rover Defender took some of its cues from the Land Rover Series
III, and on the surface, the two might have been mistaken for
twins. Only features including a revised grille and a longer bonnet
would distinguish it to the discerning eye!Both the Series III and
the 110 (later the Defender) would feature the same engine and
near-identical aluminium paneling. However, the vehicle that would
come to be known as the Defender was distinguished by:- A permanent
four-wheel drive system based on the technology in the Range Rover-
A two-speed transfer gearbox and a lockable center differential-
Coil spring suspension for a smoother ride- Updated interior
appointments and stylingThroughout the 1980s, the Defender would be
one of the first models to enjoy the Land Rover brand's updated
line of more powerful engines. Developments in this department were
connected to a significant increase in sales during the latter half
of the 80s and the early 1990s. In 2007, it received an interior
redesign. The last of the original Defenders rolled off the
production line in January of 2016.The ending of production of the
Land Rover in 2016 was generally greeted with much the same sort of
response one's children give when at the beach and told it is time
to come out of the water, get dry and go home. Though their little
teeth might be chattering in the cold and their lips blue they'll
plaintively cry 'please not yet'. Land Rover aficionados were
really not ready for the humble but possessing truckloads of 'cool'
Land Rover to cease production. Good thing we've got a lot of
classics in stock! (And yes, they made a new one in 2019, but come
talk to us about that in 20 years.)A quick overview of dates, just
in case you are a quiz fanatic (we are!):- From 1948 to 1958, the
Land Rover Series I ruled the roost. It was replaced by the Series
II in 1958, and the latter would itself be repla...for more
information please contact the seller.
