Authentic 1990 Defender 110 Camel Trophy
Sale price: US $229,900.00 Make an Offer
| Condition: | Seller notes: |
| Year: | 1990 |
| Make: | Land Rover |
| Model: | Defender |
| Vehicle Title: | Clean |
| Mileage: | 38109 |
Kenosha, Wisconsin, United States
Vehicle description
HHH Heritage LLC Own A Part Of Land Rover History. This Is A Documented Camel Trophy Defender 110. The Best On The Planet, That You Will Find ! ! She has been completely dissembled and restored to concourse/museum quality. . Ready To Go. USA TITLE
NO EMAILS SERIOUS ENQUIRIES ONLY TO Michael J. HUGHES AT
VIN SALLDHMF8HA467380
HHH Heritage LLC
We Are Passion Driven
We Are Not Dealers
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A letter from the former owners son. Hi Michael,
Thanks for your note, please find below the history of my late fathers 110 Camel Trophy Land Rover Defender
Land Rover (LR) 110” wheelbase with a 200 series turbo charged engine (Camel Trophy) UK registration number H377 FAC was manufactured at Solihull, West Midlands, England Land Rover plant in 1991. The vehicle was removed from the regular production line and passed to LR Special vehicles team to be painted in the distinctive “sandglow” colour scheme and fitted out with the specific Camel Trophy *items listed below. It is authenticated as a special vehicle “Camel” manufacture as the the last two letters of registration end in AC which are the designated letters for LR vehicles registered at the UK Driver & Vehicles Licensing Agency Bromsgrove office in Birmingham, England. Normally vehicles would he registered by the supplying dealership and not the Landrover plant. The aforementioned registration process was generally reserved for LR special vehicles.
My late father Terence Bassett from Southampton England purchased the vehicle in 1993 from Brooklyn Landrover Engineering Nr Southampton England, with 15,000KM 9300 miles on the clock, after it returned to the United Kingdom as a support vehicle for the 1992 Guyana Camel Trophy race, then purchased from LR by Brooklyn Engineering. Originally it was left hand drive and my father arranged for it to be converted by Brooklyn Enginering to UK specification right hand drive. Albeit in 2018-19 it was converted back to left hand drive by Foley Landrover Nr London England.
My dad enjoyed his “Camel” for almost thirty years and throughout that time it went around UK and Cornwall in particular on many occasions. Dads passion for landrovers started as a young man when he studied farming and agriculture and worked my families farm in Cornwall. As a boy I remember we had a series three landrover which we would often work on, as I learnt about engineering principles, how vehicles were constructed, improved and kept on road worthy.
After RHD conversation the Camel was in daily use for my fathers part time tree felling business. It would often be out in the forest working up to its axles in the dense under growth, mud and rivers, quite often rescuing other modern vehicles that got stuck. With a strong links to Cornwall, England, my father was commonly known as the “Cornish Camel” man, picture below, and he would often attend the UK Camel Trophy club events and meetings at various show grounds across England. He and other members of the club got up to many antics by constructing challenging obstacles for team members and newcomers to try out their LR. One involved them borrowing a JCB digger, when I say borrow, I am not sure if the owners or show ground consented to it being used to excavate a massive water ditch, which was then filled so deep that it ran over the Cornish Camels bonnet or hood as it is called in the US.
Quite often the Cornish Camel would be out and about in green lane across Hampshire, Dorset and Wiltshire, England. Noteable on Salisbury plain tank training grounds, traversing massive valleys, tank ditches and inclines. On one occasion I can remember having to put my feet on the dashboard as water was pouring into the vehicle from an extremely deep tank trap. Whilst we did get stuck the remote operation super winch was deployed and in no time we were out and driving again.
My dad and I would often work on the Camel, in the late nineties we fitted Zeus timing gear to the 200 series engine, which enable the traditional rubber timing belt to be removed. This did not go without incident as the original gear set locking grub screws slipped on the camshaft causing gradual wear, which then involved us taking the engine out for complete refurbishment, but fortunately funded by Zeus as they agreed to a manufacturing fault in the gear set.
In a particularly server winter in 1996 the Camel slide on black ice in the New Forest, England, which caused it to end up side ways in a ditch. To no avail she was driven out and we undertook the-repair work to the damaged panels.
The camel trophy race is an extremely challenging environment which only the toughest vehicles and drivers undertook across dense terrain and it was not untypical for some vehicles not to make it back to the UK. H377 FAC Camel supported the 1993 event extremely well and I understand she was used to cover two stages when other competing vehicles needed major repairs.
In more recent years we would enjoy the Cornish Camel by camping across England and often taking her out to shows and events showing her off at what she did best.
In 2019 after a few years of not much use and my fathers failing health he decided it was time for the Cornish Camel to move on. It was sold. She underwent a total ground up restoration and returned to her original LHD and is ready for the next chapter of her life in the US.
*Camel trophy vehicles were heavily modified by Land Rover Special Vehicles with expedition, recovery, and safety equipment, including: Safety Devices roll cages Under body protection and steering guards Modified electrical systems Winches Dixon Bate tow hitches and recovery points Mantec snorkels Transmission breathers Michelin XCL or BF Goodrich Mud Terrain tyres Upgraded suspension and transmission components Auxiliary fuel tanks Webasto fuel burning heaters Brownchurch / Safety Devices roof racks Hella driving, spot, fog, convoy and work lamps Brownchurch Bull bars and bush wires Flag poles Event plaques, decals and sponsor logos (including Camel Trophy Adventure Wear/Bags/Boots/Watches, Lee Cougan, Perception, Sony, Scott USA, Safety Devices, Land Rover, Fjällräven, Warn, Malaysia Airlines, Superwinch, Royal Dutch Shell, Shell, Avon) Expedition tools, Jerry cans, Pelican cases, Zarges boxes, high lift or New Concept air jacks, sand ladders, axes, ropes, drawbars, spades.
NO EMAILS SERIOUS ENQUIRIES ONLY TO Michael J. HUGHES AT
VIN SALLDHMF8HA467380
HHH Heritage LLC
We Are Passion Driven
We Are Not Dealers
https:/ www.autoweek.com/car-life/classic-cars/g34471504/the-top-5-old-suv-restorers-in-america/
A letter from the former owners son. Hi Michael,
Thanks for your note, please find below the history of my late fathers 110 Camel Trophy Land Rover Defender
Land Rover (LR) 110” wheelbase with a 200 series turbo charged engine (Camel Trophy) UK registration number H377 FAC was manufactured at Solihull, West Midlands, England Land Rover plant in 1991. The vehicle was removed from the regular production line and passed to LR Special vehicles team to be painted in the distinctive “sandglow” colour scheme and fitted out with the specific Camel Trophy *items listed below. It is authenticated as a special vehicle “Camel” manufacture as the the last two letters of registration end in AC which are the designated letters for LR vehicles registered at the UK Driver & Vehicles Licensing Agency Bromsgrove office in Birmingham, England. Normally vehicles would he registered by the supplying dealership and not the Landrover plant. The aforementioned registration process was generally reserved for LR special vehicles.
My late father Terence Bassett from Southampton England purchased the vehicle in 1993 from Brooklyn Landrover Engineering Nr Southampton England, with 15,000KM 9300 miles on the clock, after it returned to the United Kingdom as a support vehicle for the 1992 Guyana Camel Trophy race, then purchased from LR by Brooklyn Engineering. Originally it was left hand drive and my father arranged for it to be converted by Brooklyn Enginering to UK specification right hand drive. Albeit in 2018-19 it was converted back to left hand drive by Foley Landrover Nr London England.
My dad enjoyed his “Camel” for almost thirty years and throughout that time it went around UK and Cornwall in particular on many occasions. Dads passion for landrovers started as a young man when he studied farming and agriculture and worked my families farm in Cornwall. As a boy I remember we had a series three landrover which we would often work on, as I learnt about engineering principles, how vehicles were constructed, improved and kept on road worthy.
After RHD conversation the Camel was in daily use for my fathers part time tree felling business. It would often be out in the forest working up to its axles in the dense under growth, mud and rivers, quite often rescuing other modern vehicles that got stuck. With a strong links to Cornwall, England, my father was commonly known as the “Cornish Camel” man, picture below, and he would often attend the UK Camel Trophy club events and meetings at various show grounds across England. He and other members of the club got up to many antics by constructing challenging obstacles for team members and newcomers to try out their LR. One involved them borrowing a JCB digger, when I say borrow, I am not sure if the owners or show ground consented to it being used to excavate a massive water ditch, which was then filled so deep that it ran over the Cornish Camels bonnet or hood as it is called in the US.
Quite often the Cornish Camel would be out and about in green lane across Hampshire, Dorset and Wiltshire, England. Noteable on Salisbury plain tank training grounds, traversing massive valleys, tank ditches and inclines. On one occasion I can remember having to put my feet on the dashboard as water was pouring into the vehicle from an extremely deep tank trap. Whilst we did get stuck the remote operation super winch was deployed and in no time we were out and driving again.
My dad and I would often work on the Camel, in the late nineties we fitted Zeus timing gear to the 200 series engine, which enable the traditional rubber timing belt to be removed. This did not go without incident as the original gear set locking grub screws slipped on the camshaft causing gradual wear, which then involved us taking the engine out for complete refurbishment, but fortunately funded by Zeus as they agreed to a manufacturing fault in the gear set.
In a particularly server winter in 1996 the Camel slide on black ice in the New Forest, England, which caused it to end up side ways in a ditch. To no avail she was driven out and we undertook the-repair work to the damaged panels.
The camel trophy race is an extremely challenging environment which only the toughest vehicles and drivers undertook across dense terrain and it was not untypical for some vehicles not to make it back to the UK. H377 FAC Camel supported the 1993 event extremely well and I understand she was used to cover two stages when other competing vehicles needed major repairs.
In more recent years we would enjoy the Cornish Camel by camping across England and often taking her out to shows and events showing her off at what she did best.
In 2019 after a few years of not much use and my fathers failing health he decided it was time for the Cornish Camel to move on. It was sold. She underwent a total ground up restoration and returned to her original LHD and is ready for the next chapter of her life in the US.
*Camel trophy vehicles were heavily modified by Land Rover Special Vehicles with expedition, recovery, and safety equipment, including: Safety Devices roll cages Under body protection and steering guards Modified electrical systems Winches Dixon Bate tow hitches and recovery points Mantec snorkels Transmission breathers Michelin XCL or BF Goodrich Mud Terrain tyres Upgraded suspension and transmission components Auxiliary fuel tanks Webasto fuel burning heaters Brownchurch / Safety Devices roof racks Hella driving, spot, fog, convoy and work lamps Brownchurch Bull bars and bush wires Flag poles Event plaques, decals and sponsor logos (including Camel Trophy Adventure Wear/Bags/Boots/Watches, Lee Cougan, Perception, Sony, Scott USA, Safety Devices, Land Rover, Fjällräven, Warn, Malaysia Airlines, Superwinch, Royal Dutch Shell, Shell, Avon) Expedition tools, Jerry cans, Pelican cases, Zarges boxes, high lift or New Concept air jacks, sand ladders, axes, ropes, drawbars, spades.