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Posted on 04/18/2021 6:59:52 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Images of a modified Land Rover designed by the Duke of Edinburgh to carry his coffin
The Duke of Edinburgh began creating his own hearse in collaboration with Land Rover in 2003, the year he turned 82.
The duke, who served in the Royal Navy in World War Two, requested that the original Belize Green bodywork be switched to Dark Bronze Green, a colour used for many military Land Rovers.
The Defender was made at Land Rover's factory in Solihull and the duke oversaw the modifications for several years, making the final adjustments in 2019, the year he turned 98.
The vehicle's original role would have been to transport the duke from Wellington Arch in central London to Windsor, 22 miles away, but the coronavirus..
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Wonder what was rocking on the 8-track.
Hopefully it will run long enough to make the trip without a tow.
I prefer Land Rover series color light green or olive drab.....the latter a military color slightly darker
The new land rovers use Belize Green although Bronze Green has been around a long time
Land Rover truly utilizes military hues
The old models were great Spartan veheilces.....
Then they lost their way in yuppieland ....and now hipsterville
I think aside from Dodge pickups I owned more Land Rover products than anything else
They do have that reputation and no help from Mr Lucas.
But I still have a full set of Whitworth wrenches!
Need an EV model to bury the woke.
Pic at the link - simple and dignified; good match for the dude.
The Virtue Signaling was non stop at his funeral.
GAG!
I met a guy that enjoyed his Land Rovers and had photos of a return flight from London sitting next to an L-R transfer case on the plane!
He needed one and found a deal, purchased a seat for it on the way home.
Claimed the cost was far ahead of local purchase.
—”Need an EV model to bury the woke.”
If Joe Lucas is working on it, they may have to be unburied for some time.
—”The Virtue Signaling was non stop at his funeral.”
And the usual Rolls Royce hearse is waiting for the kids.
The L-R is fitting and proper.
Long ago my daughter’s foreign exchange parents decided to visit us and to spend several months touring North America. They wanted to travel by motor home but when they found out what poor gas mileage American Tv’s got they decided it was cheaper to ship their own RV across the Atlantic and use it.
The horror! Electric vehicles by Lucas!
Geez, all I could afford would be an old station wagon.
In another life SWIM lived and worked and raised hell in Colombia Jamaica Belize Brasil Sierra Leone Nigeria Liberia Zambia and Burma and Haiti
Emphasis Colombia Sierra Leone and Brasil
Land Rover products were our mode of transport in the bush
Fly to dirt strip and get in Land Rover and beat your spine to death
Land cruisers and Mitsubishi Monteros second and third place
And Soviet Neva jeeps which honestly were not bad....much better than Lada
I once drove a Land Rover 110 from Panama to Belize city enjoying a fairly hot El Salvador and a lit Nicaragua along the way
The Sandies were like there are counter revolutionaries down that highway
We’re like yeah the good guys though we didn’t voice that
We paid a lot highway informal tolls to whoever held the road
Including Americans standing around
Asking wtf are y’all doing here
Sierra Leone went from warm to blue hot and our geologist hit a land mine
Workers captured and killed or worse
I left and this was before the civil war truly cranked up
Land Rover versus land mine....fail
A Garbage Truck for Obama’s hearse.
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I contracted to the Kenyans during a dustup with the Somalis. This one Somali POS had an SA 340 heli and I permanently borrowed it since he didn’t need it anymore. Beat the hell out of driving!
In a landfill in Chicago.
—”Geez, all I could afford would be an old station wagon.”
I have told my wife to have the kids drag me out back to the thick bushes in the utility easement, tie a pork chop securely to my ankle.
The coyotes will drag me away.
A low-budget sky burial.
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