In the shop, we called this one Tall Tom’s Defender.
I met Tom at a show. He walked into our booth and we knew it was him right away, because he’d warned me he was a bigger guy. He just wanted to sit in a Helderburg and see if it fit. The one on display had been built for a driver about my height, five foot eight. Tom climbed in and said, “This is really tight.”
That’s the point, I told him. Every Helderburg is built for one person.
So Tom flew out to the shop. We spent the day driving builds, and when he slid into one made for someone his height and pushed the seat all the way back, I watched his face change. That was the moment Senderra began.
We built the seat frames around him, fitting his torso and his legs. We changed the steering wheel diameter and adjusted the pedals. Then we moved the second row back too, because a tall man usually has a tall family, and Tom plans to keep this one for life. Moving seats in a Defender means reworking the rear tub and testing every seat belt mount. Almost nobody does it.
Tom lives in Texas, so we built for the heat. Fixed single-pane side glass with a 70% tint, sealed, tinted glass roofs that bring in light without the greenhouse effect, and sound deadening that doubles as insulation.
The interior is buckskin leather with a diamond quilt and no contrast stitching, under a darker Alcantara headliner so your eye lands exactly where it should. Outside, the blue runs all the way up over the roof, set off by silver accents and our own monolock beadlock wheels.
Nothing on Senderra shouts. Everything flows. And Tom finally has all the room he was looking for.
- Model Defender 110
- Drivetrain Mark III.5 Turbo Diesel
- Commissioned by Tom, Texas
- Color Metallic Blue
- Delivered October 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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