Probably extremely lucky that Sir Jim ended up winning the bid and then did what seems like exactly the right thing with it.
Extremely rich, but I admire his passion and the way he is using his money!
Now that’s what I am talking about. I always said if you were going to give a Grenadier to any of the TG evil three it would be Hammond that would properly appreciate it. And for all his faults around Brexit it also proves that above everything else Sir Jim is a proper car guy. I cringed when they said restoration but that is how you recommission rather than restore a car like that. And all the real classic car guys I hang around with don’t hide their cars in museums they take them on adventures and let people see and appreciate them. Hats off to Sir Jim.
I think you can safely say the Landrover is the the grandfather of domestic/civilian 4 x 4's.
Best feel good video so far. Shows the passion, philosophy and resolve that helped create the Grenadier and made it the natural successor following the old Defender.
I believe the first 100 Landrovers were built on the chassis of jeeps that were stripped of their bodies. The Jeeps were some of the leftover's in England after WW11. So Jeep first, then the marriage of the two to birth Landrover and now we have their new cousin, Grenadier. Yes a cousin, because they share a lot of the same DNA. DaBull
I nicked a stone from that bay when we were there in June.
