{"id":1593,"date":"2024-09-11T16:57:07","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T14:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brooklynspares.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=1593"},"modified":"2026-02-09T19:40:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T18:40:05","slug":"one-ten-2-5-benzine-1987","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.brooklynspares.com\/?product=one-ten-2-5-benzine-1987","title":{"rendered":"One Ten County Station Wagon 2.5 petrol &#8211; 1987"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Defender 110 County Arizona Tan\" width=\"1020\" height=\"574\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D0cHp6Ya5qg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Driving this vehicle nowadays is like stepping into a time machine. Everything in the car feels and<br \/>\nsmells like a new vehicle from 1987. Driving makes you realise that this vehicle made a unique trip<br \/>\nback in the day and has not changed much in 37 years.<\/p>\n<p>This Arizona Tan brown Land Rover 110 County Station Wagon was built to specifications for the<br \/>\nepic journey Professor Dirk Vandewalle (expert in state-building and regime change in the Middle<br \/>\nEast and North Africa &#8211; specifically Libya and known for his role in the Lockerbie affair) would<br \/>\nundertake and delivered on July 2, 1986. The available build card shows the exact configuration of<br \/>\nthe vehicle, with some rare and exclusive factory options, like a 74-degree thermostat and air<br \/>\nconditioning, besides the 2.5-litre petrol engine. It also has a factory-installed radio\/cassette player<br \/>\nand a map reading lamp.<\/p>\n<p>Although the Belgium Professor Vandewalle was, at that time, a resident of New York, the vehicle<br \/>\nwas delivered in the UK with the UK export license plate C435 GOC on the 22nd of January 1987.<br \/>\nAccording to the detailed logbook, which was still in the cubby box of the vehicle, it was driven to<br \/>\nBelgium, where it got its first service at a mileage of 1200 km on the 15th of January 1987. From<br \/>\nthere, the car started its expedition through France and Spain to Gibraltar, crossing over to<br \/>\nMarokko to continue towards Tunis and Egypt and finally returned to Belgium. Of its first 10.000<br \/>\nkilometres, all the fuel consumption and maintenance are logged in the logbook.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Vandewalle describes this journey in his correspondence with the Institute of World<br \/>\nAffairs in February 1987 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icwa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DJV-12.pdf\">DJV-12.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Returning from its expedition, the Land Rover was returned to Belgium and stored until early 2023.<br \/>\nIn early 2023, the unique Land Rover was delivered at Brooklyn Spares B.V. She was still carrying<br \/>\nits original C435 GOC English export plates. At Brooklyn Spares, we took care of the vehicle to get<br \/>\nit up and running again after being stored for decades in Belgium. Every part that deteriorated due<br \/>\nto time (e.g., allsuspension bushes, hoses, brake cylinders, etc.) got replaced, and the chassis and<br \/>\nunderside got a new layer of coating\u2014all, of course, with the highest amount of attention to the<br \/>\noriginality andunique heritage of the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>We are now looking for a collector to become the new guardian of this time capsule and its history,<br \/>\nwhich is part of Land Rover&#8217;s heritage and Professor Vandewalle&#8217;s legacy.<\/p>\n<p>Mileage: 26.381 km<\/p>\n<p>Build date: 01\/1987<\/p>\n<p>Engine: 2.495 cm\u00b3 \/ 4 cilinder Petrol<\/p>\n<p>Power: 62 kW (84 PK)<\/p>\n<p>Gearbox: 5 speed<\/p>\n<p>Asking price: On Request<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driving this vehicle nowadays is like stepping into a time machine. Everything in the car feels and smells like a new vehicle from 1987. 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