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1950 Land-Rover 80" - Entered from the Dering Collection

United Kingdom • 10 Sept 2025

Vehicle Details

AI Listing Summary

This 1950 Land-Rover 80" is a right-hand drive export model, originally shipped to Australia and re-imported in 2017. It features a two-litre engine, LED lights, and a rare 80in hardtop, with some preservation work done including engine and gearbox refresh, retaining its original steel chassis.

Condition

7

The car is in overall solid condition with slight wear, as indicated by the aged paint. It has been partially re-wired and has new seat covers, suggesting some reconditioning. The original steel chassis is intact, and it was returned to running condition in 2020, implying it is mechanically sound but not in perfect 'Pristine' or 'Outstanding' condition.

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Transmission:

[Transmission]

Chassis No:

06108322

Odometer:

[Odometer Reading]

Reg Number:

OXS 672

RHD/LHD:

RHD

This is where `The Best 4x4 by Far' started – a utility vehicle devised in 1947 by the Wilks brothers for use on their farm and inspired by the wartime Jeep.

Aluminium panels, used because of a shortage of steel, meant the bodies did not rust and thanks to an ingenious high-and-low ratio four-wheel drive system, the new small utility vehicle was possessed of incredible climbing ability in all conditions including glutinous mud.

Initially powered by a 1,595cc inlet-over-exhaust Rover engine, a two-litre unit was adopted from 1952.

More than 75 years after the prototype first ran, Land Rovers of all ages continue to give faithful service all around the world, but the most desirable examples are still the earliest 80in-wheelbase Series I models, and particularly the 'lights-behind-grille' examples manufactured from 1948 to 1950.

This supremely original and beautifully patinated 'lights-behind-grille' Land-Rover (early models were always hyphenated) was built on 22nd February, 1950, in...