Arthur Goddard, who led the engineering team that developed the original Land Rover, has returned to Britain to celebrate the iconic 4×4 vehicle’s 62nd birthday. The 89-year old, who is still chief engineer of his family’s Australian-based trailer firm, last week visited Land Rover’s design headquarters, Solihull factory – his first visit for 55 years [...]

text: Les and Annie Parker / photos: Don Flye [Les Parker, S. Burlington, VT, is a familiar name to Rovers North customers. He and his wife Annie traveled to Petersham, MA, last September in typical British weather for a classic Land Rover event –ed.] In its six year history, Don Flye’s All Metal Dash weekend [...]

Land Rover LRX Concept and the first ever Land Rover pilot production vehicle (known as ‘Huey’), built in 1948. Photo: Land Rover UK Gaydon, 30 April 2008 – 60 years ago today, a motoring icon made its public debut, when the original Land Rover was shown at a motor show in Amsterdam, on April 30, [...]