image credits Petroilicious
Early Range Rovers have managed to stay stately looking no
matter where automotive design trends go. Over in England, you can find really old
ones with just two doors that are especially cool. And if you look hard enough,
you just might find one with royal blood.
This glossy-olive OG Range Rover belongs to a customer of
Phil Holland, who restores and revives these vehicles at his shop Twenty-Ten
Engineering. When Petrolicious spoke to him, he’d recently
wrapped up an “18 month-to-two-year” revitalization job on the 4x4 that was
ordered after its owner realized the vehice once belonged to the royal family.
I’m convinced everyone in England is obsessed with having
some relationship to the royals, can anyone over there corroborate that theory?
Anyway, in spite of that, or maybe because of it, this Range
Rover’s owner and Mr. Holland were understandably skeptical when someone told
them “oh yeah, I think that used to belong to the Queen.”
But after getting in touch with Land
Rover’s historic office, it was discovered that, yes, the vehicle was
delivered straight from the factory to the Royal Household when it was new.
“It’s a proper, original Royal car,” Holland told Petrolicious.
“There’s still a bit of an investigation going on to try and work out exactly
who drove it and owned it. But they didn’t have a huge amount of cars so it’s
probably been touched by some of the better known Royals I expect.”
Confirming the Rover’s pedigree put a massive multiplier on
its value, so the owner went ahead and authorized the comprehensive restoration
you see in this lovely video.
God save the Queen, right? And this time, it seems like the
Queen saved a Range Rover.
source: http://truckyeah.jalopnik.com/dont-worry-the-queens-range-rover-got-the-pardon-it-des-1796534786
by Andrew P Collins
http://www.boscheuropean.com
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