NEW GEAR’S RESOLUTION
Project Resolute is the latest remanufactured off-roader from Legacy Overland. The US company normally specialises in much older donor vehicles – but then, few things age as fast as a Land Rover Discovery 2…
We look at vehicles built by Legacy Overland quite frequently in these pages. The company is best known for taking old Range Rovers, G-Wagens and Land Cruisers in various states of old age and remanufacturing them as newly restified fantasy wagons whose breadth and depth of engineering excellence is matched only by the imagination with which they’re specced and finished. It’s a company that makes top-end trucks and has a clientele to match.
So we were a little taken aback when they told us that their latest build. Project Resolute is not yet a quarter of a century old – a spring chicken by the company’s usual standards. However if you know your Discovery 2s, you’ll know that they were capable of getting into a state where they needed restoring after about five years, let alone 25.
This 2001 example was, in Legacy Overland’s own words, ‘worn but willing – a veteran of daily miles and off-road
trails, ready for its second wind.’ Which is precisely what they set out to give it.
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