Highlights
- Single keeper from new
- Only 63,000 miles from new
- Rebuilt in 2025 on new Marsland galvanised chassis
- Comprehensive restoration with all genuine or quality OEM parts
- Complete overhaul of suspension, brakes, and running gear
- New PVC Sand pick-up hood
- Desirable Keswick Green paintwork
- Versatile Utility with four doors and pick-up layout
- MOT to June 2026 with no advisories
- VAT qualifying
The Appeal
If you want a new Defender, forget the £100,000 luxury SUV currently sold under the name, good as it no doubt is. You want this. But it’s 10 years old, we hear you say. Except, it isn’t really: in 2025, it received a comprehensive restoration on a new Marsland galvanised chassis that delivers a virtually new late-model Puma.
The restoration cleverly retains the originality, including the desirable Keswick Green 110 Utility Pick Up body, but renewed virtually everything else. Suspension, brakes, running gear and even interior trim were refurbished at considerable cost.
All of this is before we mention that its single registered keeper has covered less than 63,000 miles in it from new. Then there is that practical four-door, pick-up body style that is surely one of the most versatile of the many classic Defender options.
This is a really good example of the final, improved ‘Puma’, and it comes with the added reassurance of a long, advisory-free MOT. It’s perfect for commercial use or family trips.
The vendor says:
“With its new bushes and running gear the vehicle drives and behaves like new, with firm handling and sure-footed road holding.”
History and Paperwork
- Purchased new in July 2015
- Single registered keeper from new
- Taken off the road and dry stored in 2021
- Rebuilt in 2025 on a new Marsland galvanised chassis with original body parts detailed below
- Rebuilt using genuine or OEM/quality replacements
- V5C in the current keeper’s name with N1 status giving favourable commercial 'light goods' road tax rates
- Various invoices for work as shown
- MOT valid to 5th June 2026 with no advisories
- The price paid will include recoverable VAT if the purchaser is VAT registered. This is unusual and favourable to the right purchaser.
Summary of 2025 restoration:
- Re-built on to new Marsland galvanised chassis
- Original body parts reused as they were in good condition
- New brake discs, pads and brake lines
- New shock absorbers and steering damper
- Replacement standard springs
- Complete bush replacement, including chassis bushes
- Stainless steel or galvanised brackets, clips, fittings, stainless steel nuts and bolts throughout
- Galvanised turrets
- Body/chassis isolation pads from specialist supplier YRM Metals fitted throughout to minimise aluminum to steel connection
- New exhaust fitted
- Galvanised sills and galvanised body to chassis brackets and connectors
- Bulkhead and steel body parts 'Jenolite' rust-treated
- External surfaces sprayed black with Dinitrol
- Cavity wax for internal sections, doors and cavities
- New Exmoor Trim pick-up hood in PVC Sand
- New Exmoor Trim carpet set throughout
The Condition
- Popular Keswick Green factory paintwork in good general condition for age
- Some age-related usage marks to note in photos but these are light
- Largely limited to scuffs and scratches that could perhaps be improved or polished
- Bodywork is very presentable with straight and generally well kept panels
- Grey anodised headlight trims and galvanised front bumpers
- Practical four door body style with large 1t 'Euro pallet' pick up bed on 110 chassis
- New Marsland galvanised chassis fitted in 2025
- Bulkhead and steel body parts treated with 'Jenolite' rust treatment
- External surfaces sprayed black with Dinitrol
- Cavity wax used for internal sections, doors, and cavities
- Five spoke alloy wheels in good order with tyres in similar condition
- New pick up canvas cover
- All instruments, switches, and electrical systems function properly
- New PVC Sand pick-up hood
- New carpet set throughout, also from Exmoor
- High end Alpine Bluetooth stereo fitted
The Mechanics
- 2.2-litre ‘Puma’ diesel engine
- 6-speed manual transmission
- Engine starts well, runs quietly and smoothly, we are told
- Reported to drive very well due to the extensive work detailed above and below
- No advisories on current MOT
New components installed in 2025:
- Brake discs, pads, calipers and brake lines
- Shock absorbers and steering damper
- Standard springs
- Complete bush replacement, including chassis bushes
- Stainless steel or galvanised brackets, clips, and fittings
- Stainless steel nuts and bolts throughout
- New exhaust
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