Secret Service | 2001 Land Rover Defender 110 TD5

Jason’s take on this 2001 Land Rover Defender 110.

Here’s the thing about this truck — it was built for a client who’d wanted a Land Rover his entire life, and it shows. This isn’t a quick respray and a set of seat covers. It’s a full custom build, done right.

The color is the first thing you notice: Keswick Green over a black roof, the kind of two-tone that looks factory but isn’t. Subtle in a way most Defenders aren’t.

Inside is where the money went. Tan leather everywhere, diamond-quilted, with matching door cards and a leather-wrapped wheel. Proper sport buckets up front, a center console with a Marshall cooler box built in, and teak decking on the rear floor — the kind of detail you only see on builds where someone actually cared.

Underneath, it’s been gone through properly: a lifted suspension with remote-reservoir shocks, upgraded bushings, and a heavy-duty rear bumper with recovery points and a ladder up to the roof rack. It’s a TD5 diesel with a manual box — exactly the combo you want if you’re going to actually use the thing.

This one was a full custom build for a client who’d been waiting his whole life for a Defender, which means the frame-off work already solved the hard part. You’re not inheriting two years of chasing rust — that chapter’s closed.

It’s the kind of Defender that doesn’t look like anybody else’s, because it isn’t.