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DOWN on the FARM
Story & Photos by Jason Gottlilieb
[Jason Gottlieb, Boston, MA, has “an affinity for clunky-looking
metal contraptions.” This would explain the 30-year old’s
fascination with his Series Land Rovers. He uses them on his
family’s farm when he tires of his financial service webcasting
position and urban cycling. Here’s how he keeps them down on
the farm –ed.]
Christmas morning – a time that, for me, is always much more about
bringing together the people I care about and eating good food
Back Bay in Boston, right downtown, so it’s great to be able to get
away like this.
It was the perfect day for it, and a nice way for me to spend my
Christmas morning; I’d lost my grandfather this past year and, as we
all know, Christmas brings these sorts of things to the forefront of our
thoughts. Driving around the farm in a ’67 Land Rover was just what
I needed to clear my head and put a smile back on my face.
Returning to the house, I spotted something different, under a
blue tarp, something roughly the size of a small car. My mind was a
combined with lots of laughter. The days of looking forward to gifts
have long passed for me. I feel I really have everything I could
ever need and have moved in a direction of becoming much less
“material” in the last several years.
This Christmas, however, was different. I arrived at the “family
farm” in Gilmanton, New Hampshire to spend a Christmas day
roaming around in the ’67 Series II-A on the property. The 330-acre
farm is a wonderful place to visit, as you can really get away from
everything and there are plenty of difficult trails to explore. I live in
bit preoccupied, so I didn’t spend too much time thinking about it.
Walking back into the house, I received a set of very old-looking keys.
I was guided out to the field where the mysterious car under the tarp
was waiting. Pulling back the tarp, a beautiful (in my eyes) 1965
Rover II-A 88” HT appeared. I was told it was a parts truck for me,
that every single panel was pristine and would mate up exceptionally
well with my ’67. The frame was completely rotten; in fact so much
so that when the Rover was transported back to the farm, the
“pull-downs” on the flatbed started actually pulling the frame in two.
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