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Land Rover Owner International Show 2023 at Belvoir Castle, near Grantham, Leicestershire, United Kingdom. Saturday 9th September 2023.
About the photograph.
The Land Rover you see in the front, the one with the number 9 on the door and the number 575 on one of the windows, is a Land Rover Discovery.
Notice the taillights are higher up, therefore this is a Discovery Series II.
It had been customised for extreme off-roading, likely by replacing the factory standard shock absorbers with aftermarket parts, also notice the extra cage bar around the roof and sides, plus the all-terrain tyres (US: tires).
The Discovery is a series of seven-seater family SUVs, manufactured by Land Rover (later renamed as Jaguar Land Rover).
The Range Rover was designed to be an everyday 4x4 that could work as either a utility vehicle or a family car, while the Series models (1948-1985) was often seen as a light agricultural and utility vehicle. However the Range Rover moved towards a more upmarket luxury vehicle, so the Discovery was intended to fill in the role the Range Rover was originally supposed to be for.
The Discovery Series I was presented during the 1989 Frankfurt Motor Show, it was based on the Range Rover, but designed to be more affordably, and as a fully off-roading everyday family car. It offered a more luggage space with the optional of adding two more seats making it a total of 7 seats.
Behind the Discovery is a heavily customised Land Rover Defender modified for extreme off-roading. I have no idea which version this is, and don’t have much information about it, only that I know it is a Defender.
The Land Rover Defender started life around 1983 as either a replacement or a total overhaul of the original Land Rover, often known as the Series Land Rover or Land Rover Series.
The Defender looked very much similar to the Series, both being boxy shaped, have similar style, and designed to work in similar way, hence some people tend to mistakenly call the original Land Rover Series as Defender.
But there is a major difference between the two, such as the Series having two plate windscreen while the Defender have one whole window. The Series used leaf spring suspension compared to the Defender having a coil spring suspension, those being the two of the many difference.
Here in the photo, both are seen showing off their off-roading abilities over some kind of a mock up rough terrain, during a live display show in the arena. The Defender is going up a balancing beam, which is basically a seesaw.
The photo was shot in colour but due to strong sunlight, a lot of dehazing option was needed, however I thought to convert them into black and white, by using Adobe Lightroom, for a more dramatic action.
About the day.
In the early morning, I woke up, got ready, and took a three hour drive to Belvoir Castle, but that morning was already very warm, with a cloudless sky and the sun beating down on the land.
By the time I got there, I was already feeling very hot. I wore light coloured t-shirt, lightweight trousers, and a lot of sun cream, plus plenty of water.
Sadly, after about a couple of hours, I became a bit overheated in the burning sky, there weren’t much shades around, and it was kind of a heatwave of some sort.
So I had to give up, and return home to avoid getting a heat stroke, I only took like about 400 shots, and that was all I could manage.
When I got home, I had to have a cool down and a rest, and thankfully managed to stay well.
Land Rover Owner International Show.
Land Rover Owner, often abbreviated as LRO, is a British monthly magazine for Land Rover enthusiasts, published by a company based in Peterborough. The full title is often Land Rover Owner International.
It first started in July 1987 by a group of East Anglian businessmen, and was a mainly black and white 40 pages magazine. By the mid-1990s, it was bought by a publishing group, and became one of the popular Land Rover magazines.
The Land Rover Owner International Show is a yearly event ran by the magazine, and usually during the weekend in September. It features many various Land Rover vehicles on display, and includes an action arena for Land Rover drivers to display their driving skills.
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