by Arash Hekmat
A custom-build Land Rover belonging to the great wartime prime minister Sir Winston Churchill will be auctioned for as much as £60,000.
The Series 1 Land Rover, which has been locked away in storage for the last 35 years, was presented as a gift to Churchill by carmaker Rover to mark his 80th birthday.
Carrying the registration UKE 80, the vehicle has undergone so many modifications that it is parked somewhere in between a conventional 4×4 and a motorhome.
It sports an extra-wide passenger seat with a special heated footwell so the rotund elder statesman could rest while being driven around his Chartwell estate, perhaps even enjoying a snooze in the front seat.
According to the Telegraph, it even boasted a special fitted storage box containing the tools not so much of the great man’s trade, but of his hobby: bricklaying.
After Churchill’s death in 1965, the vehicle was inherited by his son in law, who used it for several years before eventually selling the vehicle in 1973 for just £160.
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