This picture is of our old 3 speed automatic Range Rover that we used for a couple of years as a support car for the Impala Greenlane events. It was a standard Range Rover with no modifications whatsoever, not even a winch on the front bumper. This was deliberate as we always marketed the trips as suitable for a standard car so we felt that the main support car should be standard also. The only concession we made was to put some ropes and a Tirfour Winch in the back.

Many a client, especially those driving other Marques could not believe the competence of this vehicle and I remember one Dutch client in particular, a colourful man, who joined one of our trips with his new Shogun that he had bought just a few days previously. We were climbing up Walna Scar Road and his car would just not climb the loose rock, no matter how we tried. The front wheels would not turn and we discovered that it was a two wheel drive version that was sold in Holland only. He was so incensed with the inability of his car that he phoned the garage in Rotterdam from the spot on Walna Scar Road where it was stuck and complained that the car that they sold him as an “off road car that would go anywhere, was most certainly not!!!”

This actual picture was taken at an exceptionally narrow gateway on the exceptionally narrow track that leads from Tile End to Sadgill.