The old One Ten station wagon struggles to get a grip slides sideway a bit, and then its skinny Michelin 7.50s cut down through the rotting foliage and they have slowly forward. No wheelspin? What with a two and a quarter engine? But who wants wheelspin? The early’ 80s naturally aspirated diesel has low down torque, and that’s what we need.
You’d think only tracked vehicle would get out of here, but they plough up through the undergrowth, shrug aside a few saplings and lurch back on to the dirt track. Even though competitors is an experienced off road driver it’s the vehicle that impresses. There’s a feeling of smug satisfaction as the One Ten prove it’s still up to the job.
And if that up and out ability is necessary here in Yorkshire, think how much more essential it must have been in 1984 when this vehicle was new. Back then, the One Ten was doing the same thing, hacking its way through a forest.
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