Land Rover Treats Former Employee, Now Grandma, with a Spin on the Jungle Track

And most importantly, it’s not every day we get to see an old woman, a grandmother, get all emotional when setting her eyes on a car of all things.

But luckily we have Britain, and we have the Brits, with their unstoppable taste for honoring their past in ways others would never even dream of.

Take this story, for instance, coming from Land Rover. As the brand celebrates its 70th anniversary this year, a chance encounter with one of the company's former employees, one that contributed to the rise of the brand following the second world war, turned into one of the most emotional tributes to the past we’ve seen in recent memory.

Dorothy Peters got a job at Rover back in 1946, when she was only 15, to work in the company’s service department. At that time, the Rover Company was just beginning work on the first Land Rovers, which would start rolling off assembly lines two years later.

It's unclear for how long she worked there, but she seems to have developed a special relationship with the cars she helped build.

In 2018, Dorothy’s destiny took her to Solihull, a place where Land Rover was hosting one of its celebrations for the anniversary. There she met Mike Bishop, a Land Rover engineer with the company’s classic car department. A man who, by chance, happens to own an original Land Rover, the 16th ever made and one Dorothy worked on back in the day.

In exchange for her memories and some timeless black and white stills of life at Land Rover at the middle of last century, Bishop decided to treat Dorothy with a trip down the company’s Solihull jungle track.

That’s because despite working for Land Rover, the woman, now 87, had never been in one of the cars she seems to cherish so much.