Daventry House

Daventry House Limited is the private company of Neil Rathbone, a management consultant specialising in research, technology, innovation and enterprise.

Land Rovers

I recently bought a 1984 Land Rover 110 Station Wagon as a bit of a project and a reaction against the depreciation you suffer by paying the price of a small house for a ‘luxury’ vehicle that 10 years later, and despite tender and expensive care, sells for not much more than the price of a bicycle.

I’m quite getting into the Land Rover thing and enjoy the odd day that I manage to find once in a blue moon to spend renovating the vehicle. I’ve even started visiting Land Rover events. Is this a habit I should try to kick before it gets a hold of me I wonder?

I didn’t realise that there is such a fraternity of Land Rover freaks out there until I started driving it and other Land Rover drivers started waving. These vary from the lad who put his whole arm, complete with rolled-up checked shirt, out of the window, at great risk of automotive amputation, to give me a hearty salute, to the petite lady who just raised her fingers above the steering wheel and waggled them at me surreptitiously like a secret Masonic sign.

Even Jeremy Clarkson has voted classic Land Rovers in their traditional ‘chassis plus Meccano-kit bolt-on body’ form of the Defender to be super cool. There is something strange in all this.

The SUV

Learning the other way to drive (in someone elses' Land Rover)

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