This lot will be auctioned via Iconic Auctioneers, The Iconic Sale at the NEC Classic Motor Show 2025 on Saturday the 8th of November, NEC, Birmingham, B40 1NT. The Kinlee Collection 2025 illustrates our vendor's lifelong devotion to improvement and nostalgia. Eclectic, yes, but each motor car represents an aspect of our vendor's personality. Having bought many cars from us over the years, we appreciated our vendor’s loyalty in 2023 to offer the first iteration of the Kinlee Collection. Our vendor's appreciation of engineering started early, awarded Student of the Year five years running whilst ignoring the obvious distractions of 1970s college life, and success enabled him to indulge his passion for fast cars and turn-key classic Astons. He relaxes in the evening by planning a unique restoration of a project Land Rover, with the attention to detail for colour schemes and specialist fittings that most people channel into a one-off project such as a new kitchen. What started off as a hobby has grown into a fully staffed private workshop within a dedicated storage facility. Once ‘specced’ each Land Rover is restored from the ground up, with bespoke colour combinations, panels individually painted, interiors upgraded with leather and specially sourced fixtures fitted where appropriate. Finally, when asked by this consignor of the significance of Kinlee, our vendor referred us to his favourite song by The Kinks: I’m Not Like Everybody Else. The Wolf, based on the 90 and 110 Defenders, was introduced in 1994 but it took two years of testing, rejection, upgrading and further testing before the Ministry of Defence was satisfied. It was far stronger and more reliable than the standard vehicle on which it was based as a result. An order for some 8,000 Wolf Defenders was placed in 1996 by the Ministry of Defence at a cost of c.£40,000 each for the basic Wolf and some 97 variants were produced. The Wolf’s mechanical specification is extensive but, in brief, it featured a 113bhp, 300TDi engine with no electronics except for the fuel pump solenoid, rust-proofed chassis from new, gearbox cooling system, reinforced front bulkhead, rails and sills, reinforced Salisbury rear axle and standard reinforced front axle with uprated differentials. It's not known how many Ministry of Defence Wolf Defenders were scrapped due to combat damage, or quietly sold to foreign armies and NGOs, but most open-topped 'canvas tilt' Defenders rarely survived Army-use, and Royal Navy cars suffered from their proximity to the sea. Far outnumbered in production by their hardtopped siblings, the canvas backed Wolf rarely saw domestic service as the hardtop was better suited to the British weather and most were therefore in left-hand drive for overseas use. These unique vehicles can’t be compared to a standard Defender, as they were originally built to withstand the rugged requirements of specialist detachments, and neither are they in the same class as the usual 'surplus' Defenders on the market. Issued by the Ministry of Defence in 1998 and decommissioned on 1st January 2015, this Wolf is likely unique due to its restoration specifics, with a nod to the car’s previous career in the Royal Airforce Logistics Corp, commemorated by the grille mounted badge. Restored from the ground up and repainted in Bahama Gold, a colour more commonly associated with the early Suffix Range Rovers, the look is subtly brought together with cream painted Rostyle wheels, we did state that attention to detail is very important to our vendor. The Ministry of Defence instrument cluster has been refurbished whilst retaining original patina where needed. A luxuriously trimmed burgundy leather pair of front seats is matched to hide inserts above and around the dashboard all complemented by a wooden, Nardi-style steering wheel. If Roger Moore’s James Bond could’ve gotten away with specifying a Land Rover to his taste for when the going got too tough for the Lotus, this would be it, and at the very least 'Q branch' could expect the shovel and pick axe returned in pristine order. Further enhancements include wooden front and rear flooring, polished gear levers, a brand new canvas tilt and an LCD infotainment screen. Please note however that the photographs show the rear bench seating in a different shade of leather for illustration purposes only, due to time constraints, and the Land Rover will be supplied to auction with matching burgundy leather. As with all military Land Rovers the odometer reading is in KPH, and the current reading of 125,137 translates to a mere 77,755 miles.