Our second Defender video of the day comes from Land Rover New Zealand who recently surprised four friends who reluctantly decided the time had come to part with their beloved Series 1 after many years of use.
From the Land Rover website:
This year Land Rover is showing what Valentine’s Day can really mean, turning a heart-warming online auction listing into the ultimate Valentine’s Day gift.
Four university friends from New Zealand had listed their beaten and broken 1957 Series I Land Rover, christened ‘The Landy’, for sale on an auction site, following 15 years of ownership. The listing told the story of their many adventures and their sorrow at parting with their beloved Land Rover.
While Will Radford, Jeremy Wells, Anthony Dawson and James Shatwell thought they were closing a chapter with the sale, fate intervened when the team at Land Rover New Zealand read the ad and hatched a covert operation with Will’s wife, Claire, to give ‘The Landy’ a painstaking ground-up mechanical restoration.
And now, for Valentine’s Day, the four friends have been reunited with their Series I thanks to Land Rover New Zealand.
