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Queen's 1978 Land Rover Series III for sale

The 1978 Land Rover Series III once owned by the Queen (THE Queen) is being kicked out of its sovereign garage and into the hands of commoners. 

UK auctioneers Historics at Brooklands has been tasked with finding a buyer for the Land Rover, which has been extensively modified to suit the monarch.

It was commissioned for the Queen and modified in April 1979 by REME Central Workshops in Donnington to include a traffic light system allowing the Queen to signal the driver to stop, slow or start. 

Other features include double rear doors and a rear retractable step which remain in full working order and set this Land Rover aside from the other 440,000 Series III models built between 1971 and 1985.

It has been driven only 1892 miles (about 3027km) since new. Historics estimate the Landie will go for the equivalent of $23,000-$28,000. But you have to go to the UK to get it. The auctioneer says “it's highly unlikely one like this will ever come to auction again”.

It will be auctioned on the afternoon of Saturday November 24. Further details on www.historics.co.uk
 

Neil Dowling
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GoAutoMedia Cars have been the corner stone to Neil’s passion, beginning at pre-school age, through school but then pushed sideways while he studied accounting. It was rekindled when he started contributing to magazines including Bushdriver and then when he started a motoring section in Perth’s The Western Mail. He was then appointed as a finance writer for the evening Daily News, supplemented by writing its motoring column. He moved to The Sunday Times as finance editor and after a nine-year term, finally drove back into motoring when in 1998 he was asked to rebrand and restyle the newspaper’s motoring section, expanding it over 12 years from a two-page section to a 36-page lift-out. In 2010 he was selected to join News Ltd’s national motoring group Carsguide and covered national and international events, launches, news conferences and Car of the Year awards until November 2014 when he moved into freelancing, working for GoAuto, The West Australian, Western 4WDriver magazine, Bauer Media and as an online content writer for one of Australia’s biggest car groups. He has involved himself in all aspects including motorsport where he has competed in everything from motocross to motorkhanas and rallies including Targa West and the ARC Forest Rally. He loves all facets of the car industry, from design, manufacture, testing, marketing and even business structures and believes cars are one of the few high-volume consumables to combine a very high degree of engineering enlivened with an even higher degree of emotion from its consumers.
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