The old saying ‘one man’s junk is another man’s treasure’ couldn’t be more true in the case of UK entrepreneur Peter Hobson and his huge collection of scrapped Land Rovers. Hobson runs a factory refurbishing old parts pulled from wrecked Land Rover SUVs and reselling them as spares.
“I’ve got the largest Land Rover parts store external Land Rover,” 60-year-old Hobson reveals about his store of spares, amassed by the final two decades. Some of the parts, like whole engines, cost upwards of £7,000 ($14,600) and thereupon there are the total cars. In all, Hobson estimates the value of his collection to be
So sought after is his services that he’s even been hired by military groups around the world for the supply of armored vehicles. “I supply many armies around the world,” Hobson boasts, with armies from Turkey, Jordan, Australia and a string of Middle-Eastern nations all listed as clients. Of course, Hobson’s main client is the UK Ministry of Defence. It is a British company after all.
[Source: BBC]
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