What’s in a Name?
1987 Land Rover County 110
In 1989, Land Rover expanded its lineup to include the new Discovery to accompany its Land Rover 90/110 and Range Rover. With the Di... Read More...
Three Days in January
Mortimer, NC, once provided the home for a town of 800 people and a cotton mill. Abandoned and flooded over, it’s now one of the ghost towns of Appalachia, tuck... Read More...
Letter to the Editor: Spring 2016
Dear Rovers North,
We just received the new Rovers Magazine and in the article about Uwharrie 12 you have a poster with an old Defender. How can we obtain a co... Read More...
Behind the Steering Wheel: Spring 2016
The needs of the world after WWII, when the Wilks brothers and their team created the first Land Rover, helped shape the engineering and design of the “world’s ... Read More...
Sightings: Spring 2016
As mud season in New England draws to a close it’s time to wash off the winter’s grime, salt and mud from the Land Rovers. Of course, those readers in more temp... Read More...
New York Auto Show: Spring Issue Preview
We’ll have complete coverage of Land Rover at the New York Auto in the upcoming issue of Rovers Magazine, but until then, here’s some observations I wanted to s... Read More...
Introduction: Winter 2016
The Last of the Legend—Land Rover ends DEFENDER productionHundreds of current and former Land Rover employees gave due honor to this legendary vehicleR... Read More...
Fabulously British: Winter 2016
John Vallerand loads spare parts into the trailerIf you’re a Series Land Rover owner, you can’t help but find Land Rover’s engineering captivating. You may... Read More...
The Arctic Circle – 55 Years Later: The Cambridge Trans-America Expedition
If you had pitched this story as a movie script, Hollywood producers would have yelled, “Get outta here!”Original InvoiceIn 1960, four British univ... Read More...
Let it Rain, Let it Rain: Mid-Atlantic Rally 2015
Let it RainBack in September, I met up with Series II-A enthusiast John Vallerand of Greene, ME. “I might go to the Mid-Atlantic Rally this year,” he said.... Read More...
Giles County— Home of MAR
County Administrator Chris McKlarney and Executive Assistant Jenny Cray McCloyROAV has found an ideal site for their long-running Mid-Atlantic Rally in rur... Read More...
Uwharrie 12: Take Me to the River
Trail leader Scott GoforthI didn’t ask for a birthday present, but Rovers North gave me one when it sent me to Uwharrie 12 in North Carolina in mid-October... Read More...