ANYONE SEEN A TOURIST AROUND HERE?
South-Western Mozambique.
Across the Limpopo. Under the Lines.
Oh yes, it’s a Great Defender! (Apologies to Buck Ram and the Platters).
My first Landrover was a 1972 Series II.A 109” Station Wagon which, in it’s later incarnations, became the indominitable Defender CSW that is still so admired all over the world. The 2007 Defender County 110 that I used in November to traverse parts of Mozambique that would have had lesser vehicles shaking in their hubs, still looks surprisingly similar to the long wheel-based 107” that first came off production lines in 1954. Over the years the Defender has had many detractors but any vehicle that still looks much the same as it did nearly sixty years ago, must have a lot going for it. At a time when most ‘off-road’ vehicles are owned by people who’s idea of ‘roughing it’ is driving over (instead of around) a traffic circle, the Defender will surely and swiftly suffer a boredom-seizure or even climb up and over your garden wall if you don’t take it out and onto those ‘lost trails’ to stretch its suspension as often as possible.
