A VETERAN Land Rover has completed its second mammoth 12,000-mile drive 64 years after it finished the first one.
The journey, called The Last Overland, recreated the Oxford and Cambridge Far Eastern Expedition that set off in 1955.
A 10-strong team shared the driving of the classic British machine during the trip that started in Singapore and headed through 23 countries to reach the UK.
Even a wheel falling off the venerable Land Rover couldn’t stop the team and member Alex Bescoby said: “The journey has been described as the mother of all road trips and I’d have to agree.
“We’ve been through extremes of temperature, altitude and endured a bit of food poisoning, but the car has been amazing and helped us make friends everywhere.”
The team was greeted back on to home soil by a gathering of 100 Land Rovers, including the all-new Defender, and finished on London’s Park Lane, where the original expedition set out from.
