Land Rover Restoration in San Antonio, TX

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Unknown Facts about the Land Rover
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• Chances are you know that Land Rovers got their
  start as the British version of the Jeep and that
  they were owned by BMW for a while. Here are a
  few things you probably didn't know about the
  Land Rover.

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• BEGINNING OF LAND ROVERS
• Land Rovers have been built since 1948, becoming
  the second oldest four-wheel-drive vehicles in
  automotive history after Jeeps.
• They sponsored the ultimate college joyride. LR
  used to provide trucks for students from Oxford
  and Cambridge to drive across continents to
  places like Singapore and the Sahara, for the
  sake of learning.

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• STEERING WHEEL IN THE MIDDLE
• Land The first Land Rover had the steering wheel
  in the middle. It was modeled after WWII-era
  Jeeps because the designer had used one of these
  Jeeps on his farm in Wales. To keep things simple
  and more tractor-like, the designer put the
  steering wheel in the middle.

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• FIRST JET ENGINES
• The father of Land Rover's larger offspring, the
  Range Rover, was a jet engine-designing badass.
  After WWII, Charles S. King worked with Rolls
  Royce and helped them develop their first jet
  engines.

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• FIRST MONSTER TRUCK
• They also invented the Monster Truck 30 years
  before anyone else. Land Rover bolted on four
  tractor tires and some beefy axles from a
  Studebaker to a Series IIA, thereby giving birth
  to the first monster truck.

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• CAMEL TROPHY
• Land Rover dominated the Camel Trophy, which
  included treks across places like Siberia, the
  Amazon, Tierra del Fuego, and the Australian
  Outback, with vehicles that were mostly stock.

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• Visit https//www.hillcountrybritish.com/ for
  more details.
• Call 210-425-3055
• E-mail josh_at_hillcountrybritish.com