Land Rover Diecast Model Cars

It's the Journey and the Destination

Think Land Rover and think adventure. The boxy, four-wheel drive vehicles have traversed some of the globe's toughest terrain and lived to tell the tale.

The precursor to today's stylish Land Rover was developed on an island off the coast of England and Wales. There a designer for the British carmaker Rover set out to build an all-terrain car that could easily handle the rough landscape of rocks and hills on country farms. He took a fancy, it's claimed, to a WWII American Jeep and used a Jeep chassis to make the first Land Rover.

Indeed, remnants of the War contributed greatly to Land Rover's reputation for longevity and ability to weather tough conditions. The body is an alloy of aluminum (plentiful during the war years ...more

It's the Journey and the Destination

Think Land Rover and think adventure. The boxy, four-wheel drive vehicles have traversed some of the globe's toughest terrain and lived to tell the tale.

The precursor to today's stylish Land Rover was developed on an island off the coast of England and Wales. There a designer for the British carmaker Rover set out to build an all-terrain car that could easily handle the rough landscape of rocks and hills on country farms. He took a fancy, it's claimed, to a WWII American Jeep and used a Jeep chassis to make the first Land Rover.

Indeed, remnants of the War contributed greatly to Land Rover's reputation for longevity and ability to weather tough conditions. The body is an alloy of aluminum (plentiful during the war years) and magnesium. The combination is called Birmabright and is both lightweight and rustproof. Although today's Land Rovers sport a variety of colors and embellishments, the war years also influenced the look of the high wheel-based cars because paint colors were limited to those used in military purposes. It's these older models that are favorites among the collectors of die cast cars. ...less