HOLDEN is not the only vehicle brand that 
celebrates its 60th birthday this year, with April 30 marking the six-decade anniversary of the first Land Rover’s world public debut at the 1948 Amsterdam motor show.
To mark the occasion, more than 2000 Land Rover enthusiasts from as far afield as the UK, US and Denmark – as well as every Australian state and territory – converged on the Snowy Mountains town of Cooma at Easter.
Cooma has been described as the soul of LR in Australia because more than 250 Land Rovers were imported between 1949 and 1974 to help realise what is billed as the nation’s largest engineering feat - the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme, which took 25 years to complete and brought water and power to south eastern Australia via 16 dams, seven power stations and 225 km of tunnels.more...
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