Back in 1994 my heart was set to own a Land Rover Defender
90, since it was voted 4 wheeler of the year and the off-road capabilities were that
far superior to any stock production vehicle with exception to the AM General
Hummer. I had to convince my wife since it was a family purchase, we had to both
agree. She said "Yellow is cute, but I want a automatic
transmission". So I let 1994 and 1995 pass since only a 5 speed was available.
Then I found out that there will be no 1996 Defenders imported into the USA. We were so
depressed, 2 years and that was all the imports. I still occasionally stopped buy
the local Land Rover dealership to look at the ones sold and in the service
bay. Then one day the sales man Alan Lucks showed me a memorandum from Land Rover
that said they will bring into the USA for only one year and it will have a 4.0 lt. engine
instead of the 3.9 and a Automatic transmission. After that there will be no more
because there is no air bags. A short time after we made a deposit to be put on the
list, we were number 11 on the list. 8 months later we were 1st on the list for a
1997 soft top yellow defender. When the first yellow arrived at the dealer we were
contacted even before it was prepped. After we had some factory accessories
installed we took delivery in May 15th 1997. Here is the beginning to present :
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