Dan,
Thanks..., I think.
This is the vehicle I mentioned above. Only 500 were built with a 3.9 V8 and 9 prototypes. (Neal's is equally rare with 500 built and ten prototypes.) Mine is 021/500 and was the first white one imported and was built specifically for me by Special Vehicles with a special chip for the EFi and some hand-cast alloy trinkets and some U.K. only accessories. It arrived on Christmas Eve, 1995 and the port manager for Land Rover in Baltimore called me and told me to find my cheque book!
I picked it up on December, 31st and it was the last vehicle to leave the port individually. On January 1st., all subsequent vehicles had to be shipped by truck due to a change in port regulations.
Since you've had a couple of rides in this rig, you can comment on the ride and handling, but I think it works quite well on the road with the suspension we specified for the NAS 90's while still working quite well off-road. Twice I've driven a similar vehicle from Telluride to Denver, 620 miles off-road with no problems, 19 passes over 12,000'...
Peter,
Thanks for nothing. I have 10" of snow, sleet and ice outside since last night..., and it's
still -10 C!
Anthony,
No more of these for reasonable $$$ but we may have a modern version in a few years with all the high-tech stuff which will work as well or better off-road..., and you might even be able to hear the radio!
Actually you
can hear the radio somewhat in a wagon...