windsock
Adventurer
Then the only "REAL" Land Rovers are Series' and Defenders
Just the pedant in me but don't forget the one ten... I have a one ten flat deck truck and it never ceases to amaze me the number of folk who think it is a defender. It is not. It is however a key stage of the evolution of the vehicles we like, that has it's own name... 110.
I have early memories of my granddads old series one. He'd owned it since new and it was still going strong on the farm into the sixties. This was when farmers had the old series ones and used all the accessories given to work the land they lived off. They were tractors on the farm in the morning and shopping baskets in town in the afternoon. Cream delivery vehicles the next morning and then bought in the hay bales that afternoon. They broke in the field and that is where they got fixed to drive another job. They were work horses for the vast majority and overlanders for the small minority. This is a valued legacy that continues for many albeit with different proportions of work and play.
I live with an early (1984) one ten flat deck truck. It is my daily driver for good reason. I am able to go gather a heap of firewood out of the river bed in the morning and then go to town in it to pick up building materials in the afternoon. I can comfortably be in first low with a locked centre crawling a load of wood out of the river/bush or leaving the bush camp and then in fifth high cruising home with a load of wood or a head full of good memories. I can be driving to an isolated stretch of river to fly fish one moment and driving to work in town the next. A change of clothes in the truck is easier than driving home to change vehicles
If I had to use one word to sum up my LR it would be "versatile", i.e. capable of doing many things competently and having varied uses or serving many functions. That for me is the real part of what I have, the ability to have it all while only having to maintain the one