A father, his son, and two Helderburgs built side by side.
Rocco started the way every custom Defender build does, with a conversation, not a configurator. Steve, in Nashville, wanted one of his own. Then his son wanted one too. So we built both at the same time.
What I did not expect was the race. A father and his son, twelve months of handwork at the far end of an English workshop neither of them could drop in on, quietly competing over whose Defender would come off the trailer first and whose color would hold the light better. The painters knew about it. I knew about it. And here is the part I still laugh about. They specified their interiors without comparing notes, and the cabins came back nearly identical. The same leather, the same configuration, the same Chronos instruments. A year of arguing about the outside, and they had agreed on the inside the whole time.
The exteriors are where they part. Steve took a deep, saturated red. His son took a vibrant blue. Both were mixed by eye, both are now retired, and the two formulas sit in our archive side by side. Neither will be mixed again. More than three thousand hours of hand work went into each one, hand-formed aluminum, hand-cut louvers, hand-soldered wiring, no robots anywhere near them. The next one I build will be shaped around the next family.
- Model Defender 110
- Drivetrain Mark III.5 Turbo Diesel
- Commissioned by Steve, Nashville, TN
- Color Rocco Red, retired
- Delivered April 2026
- Status Not for Sale
Every line above is the result of upgrades engineered in-house, found in no other custom or restomod Defender in the world.
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