Saturday, August 16, 2025 1:00PM

Moderated by Jeffrey Ehoodin with Michael Bishop, Scott Brady, Tom Pickford

Join Land Rover Classic for an extraordinary Pebble Beach Classic Car Forum celebrating 75 Years of The Great Expeditions, a tribute to the marque’s unmatched legacy of global exploration. Presented at the 2025 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, this conversation will delve into the stories behind ten iconic expedition vehicles—each a symbol of courage, innovation, and enduring spirit. From the U.S. debut of Pollyanna, Barbara Toy’s trailblazing 1950 Series I, to the legendary 1955 Oxford of the Oxford-Cambridge Expedition, and the historic 1972 Trans-America Range Rover that conquered the Darien Gap, each vehicle reflects a journey that helped shape the legacy of Land Rover. With highlights including the Discovery II from the Longitude Expedition bearing the Dalai Lama’s signature, the forum offers a rare insight into the adventures, engineering, and cultural milestones that have defined Land Rover’s presence across continents for over seven decades. A panel of experts, moderated by Jeffrey Ehoodin of JLR, will include Land Rover Classic Historian Mike Bishop, Collector Tom Pickford, and author and veteran expeditioner and executive Publisher of the Overland Collective, Scott Brady.

Jeffrey Ehoodin

Jeffrey Ehoodin works in Public Relations at JLR North America, where he is recognized as a curator and expert dedicated to sharing the legacy of classic Land Rovers. Notably, he played a central role in the 2024 exhibition, "The Vehicles of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II," which featured dynamic displays at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, Rockefeller Center in New York City, and elsewhere across the country. Ehoodin is once again at the forefront of the 2025 featured Land Rover Classic Exhibition at Pebble Beach, titled "The Great Expeditions: 75 Years of Land Rover Traversing the Globe."

Michael Bishop

Mike Bishop began collecting and writing about Land Rovers as a teenager in Australia in the late 1980s. His intuitive work was published in magazines and on the very first days of the internet in 1995, helping fellow collectors and enthusiasts. He travelled in the late 1990s to the UK to do research in the British Motor Museum archive. From that work, he rediscovered Arthur Goddard, the original lead program engineer of Land Rover in 1948 and the man that put together the 1954 Royal State Review Land Rovers for the 1954 Coronation Tour. He joined (JLR) Land Rover in 2011 firstly at Solihull with Land Rover Experience and the 2015 Defender Year of Celebration and then the launch of Land Rover Classic in 2016. He is involved with restoration programs, customer sales, media stories and events.

Scott Brady

Scott Brady is an adventure traveler, author, and publisher. He is the Executive Publisher of the Overland Collective, parent company of the Overland Journal, XOverland, and expeditionportal.com, the world’s largest and most visited vehicle-dependent expedition community and overlanding editorial resource. Because of the large audiences to these outlets, Scott is often credited with popularizing overland travel in North America. As an overlander, Scott has crossed all seven continents and circumnavigated the planet three times with a combination of 4WD vehicle and adventure motorcycle. He was the expedition leader of the Expeditions 7 project (in partnership with Greg Miller), a three-year global adventure that took the same vehicle to all seven continents, concluding in 2014, and in 2024, Scott became the first person in history to cross all seven continents. Scott is the Author of Overlanding 101: A Field Guide to Vehicle-Based Travel.

Tom Pickford

Tom Pickford founded Vintage LR Company in May 2017, but its roots date back to the early 1950s, when Tom Pickford’s grandfather bought his first Series I Land Rover—a 1950/51 light-through-the-grill 80" model (registration LYM 69). In 1958, he purchased a new Series II, an 88" Diesel (registered 502 EFC). Tom’s father, Guy, an avid enthusiast, operated a service and repair business for Land Rovers and acquired a 1948 Land Rover (HAC 943) in 1976. Tom, born that same year, got involved with Series 1 Land Rovers in the late 1980s. He learned to drive on his grandfather’s farm using an 80" Land Rover named “Pollyanna,” famously driven by pioneering expeditionary Barbara Toy on her journey from London to Baghdad and beyond. In 2004, Tom started working independently, eventually founding the Vintage LR Co. He has been restoring Land Rovers since the mid-1990s and has worked on many early models, including pre-production vehicles and models post-1954.

Forum panelists subject to change.

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