Whereas scanning the Watchville RSS feed yesterday afternoon, I got here throughout an article on A Collected Man and observed that its writer was Simon de Burton, a author whose watch tales I’ve loved within the Monetary Occasions for a few years. I gave it a learn and determined fairly shortly that this editorial and its accompanying pictures have been properly price sharing on this part of HODINKEE.
Julian Shoolheifer with one other Land Rover he’s restoring.
The writer frames his article by recounting the story of a splendidly unmolested Land Rover that sat in an English barn for the higher a part of 50 years. Chassis quantity 860001 isn’t just any Land Rover, we be taught, however the very first manufacturing mannequin to come back off the manufacturing unit line in 1948. And its proprietor was not simply any fanatic both, however Britain’s richest man, Jim Ratcliffe. Working with Julian Shoolheifer (pictured), who makes a speciality of Land Rovers, Ratcliffe has set concerning the tough technique of restoring the car whereas preserving each final doable unique half and throwing out absolutely the minimal of its parts.
De Burton continues his story by discussing how this ethos of saving over scrapping has permeated a few of the main basic automotive occasions around the globe and has seen an identical and parallel rise within the classic watch accumulating group.
The writing is nice, and the story is fascinating. Head over to A Collected Man and test it out for your self.
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