IN MY JOB as a freelance photographer, I’d been on the 2012 press launch of the L405 Range Rover in Morocco, where ‘Mr Land Rover’, Roger Crathorne, had brought over a couple of original 1970 Velar pr

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Mike Humble goes retro this month after some light recommissioning of an old Swede – but this time it’s not another SAAB!