Starting in the 1970s:
1960 Land Rover series IIA; 1986 Ranger Rover (daughter was in highway black ice, 12 car accident, but the Rover died to save her life); 1988 Range Rover, 2007 LR3.
The Land Rover Series IIA's electrics were a Lucas science project. Ended up replacing everything electrical, including the generator twice (1st replacement was DOA in the box) before I converted it to a modern alternator. It could be crank started with a crank that stored behind the driver's seat. Helpful one winter when the starter died and I had to crank start it every time it stalled in the damp.... did I mention the parking brake on the IIAs was a drum brake on the drive shaft behind the tranny, and tranny rear seals always leaked, and the parking brake never held, so when it stalled in the rain, you had to jump out, get the crank from behind the seat and jog along in front of the truck while you crank started it, and then run back to the driver's door, store the crank and jump in....
(Do you know why the British drink warm beer? They have Lucas refrigerators).
But we loved that truck and had many happy times driving on the beach to fish or duck hunt until the steel frame finally rusted through and we had to say goodbye.
Wife and I are looking forward to old school Grenadier (but no crank start, sigh).
