Story & Photo by Jim Edson [Jim Edson, Irving, TX, entered the Land Rover world with a rare ’95 Discovery manual transmission. Once hooked, he upgraded to a 2004 G4 Discovery. He’s a past president of the Texas Rovers and now serves as the webmaster of their site, www.texasrovers.org. Here’s his story on the 2008 [...]

Story by: Pamela Petroff Photos courtesy of Pamela Petroff & P.C.R.C [Pamela Petroff, Portland, OR, has entertained Rovers North News readers for several years with reports from the Pacific Northwest. Here’s her latest excuse to jump in her Land Rover –ed.] Like any normal person suffering from the commonly known Land Rover addiction, the email [...]

Story By: Shirley Vander Veen Photos courtesy of Pamela Petroff & P.C.R. The Washington contingent of leader Rich Williams, Jim McPherson, Allen Minner, Shirley Vander Veen and grandson Michael met at the North Bend Bar and Grill for a leisurely breakfast on Friday morning. It set the mood for the trip – much talk of [...]

Story & Photo by Ray Scholl [Ray Scholl lives in Mason, NH, with Jenny, his wife, and their children Lindsay and Foster. He’s an IT professional who, with his family, built their house, maintain a “gentleman’s farm,” raise animals and refurbish automobiles. Their Land Rover project would have been impossible without their chief assistant and [...]

Story by: Jeffrey B. Aronson Photos by Calef Letorney & Jeffrey B. Aronson Forget March – February is the cruelest month. Yes, it’s short and for many people, it includes a vacation weekend to buy cars in honor of forgotten Presidents. There’s a small sop to romance with Valentine’s Day. It’s also brutally cold [whoever [...]

Story by: Hallie Vail / Photos by Graham Letorney Last year, I spoke of Winter Romp and its excessive extracurricular activities. There’s no need to speak of them this year but I must first off clear my name to anyone who was in the side room at Big G’s Sunday morning. Contrary to John Cranfield’s [...]

The Land Rover community lost one of its most storied members with the passing of Bill Vallerand, in Greene, Maine, on February 10, 2007 His formal name was Alphonse William Vallerand, but from his birth in 1932 he never stood on formality. He joined three previous generations of Vallerands to run Glenrock Springs Water Company, [...]

Story by Jeffrey B. Aronson / Photos by Matt Martin For the past 16 years, British car enthusiasts and enterprising innkeepers have conspired to entice over 500 sporting machines to travel to Stowe, Vermont in mid-September. That’s just after the summer tourists have packed their bags and before the leaf peeper migration begins later that [...]