1955 Series I - Land Rover Owner International Magazine
My earliest childhood memories of the Land Rover are riding it in to Rover Owners Association - and later Association of Rover Clubs - national rallies, the earliest in around 1977. In those days 'KUD 110' was family transport and my mum... We'd gone to get some logs from one of dad's friends and he did the trick of putting it into low-range, first gear on tick-over and then jumping out and leaving me to steer it while he ran ahead to open a gate. I remember one evening taking my friends out in it to several pubs. I was really pleased because I managed to get it into first gear, on a hill, without stopping or grinding the gears. The only one of them I'm still in touch with was also the only one who recognised that this was quite an achievement in a Series I. It was this Land Rover that got my dad into trialling with the Southern Rover Owners Club. But because it was also our family car, dad bought an 80in and used that for trialling instead. I didn't start trialling in it until around 2000 or 2001. Dad had retired in 1994 and sold KUD the following year. Then in 2000, in a chance conversation at work, a friend was pointing out a vehicle in a Land Rover magazine when I spotted KUD for sale on the next page. I rang the seller and bought it,. Source: www.lro.com
