{"id":3437,"date":"2014-09-03T15:52:33","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T15:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexi.tv\/landroverslive\/?p=3437"},"modified":"2016-01-18T11:02:21","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T11:02:21","slug":"14-defenders-safely-returned-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexi.tv\/landroverslive\/2014\/09\/14-defenders-safely-returned-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"14 Defenders Safely Returned (USA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of yet, 14 Defenders, seized in the past 2 months by the DHS on the grounds of fake registration documents and that the vehicles were supposedly imported after the year 2000, and therefore didn&#8217;t comply with new regulations, have been safely returned to their delighted owners.<\/p>\n<p>But, the most inspirational factor at play here is that a Lawyer, named the &#8216;Defender of Defender&#8217;s&#8217;, William Hedrick, got involved and offered to represent the ex-Land Rover owners free of charge.<\/p>\n<p>We know that the DHS had been working with a list of offending VIN numbers, based on the last six digits of each one, to identify the once thought illegal Landy&#8217;s. However, it was found that vehicle manufacturers, by practise, recycle VIN numbers and the real clue is in the prefix code of each number.<\/p>\n<p>Based on that fact, the VIN numbers were decoded and it was revealed that errors had been made. The vehicles were found to be 1983 to &#8217;84 110&#8217;s. Not the post-2000 models that they were once thought to be.<\/p>\n<p>The first Land Rover to be removed from its baffled owner was a 1983 110, belonging to Danny Harrington, Upstate NY. The officials believed it was a post-2000 year, vintage, model. It was taken only a few weeks after Danny had replaced the clutch, himself, during a 10-hour marathon.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>&#8220;All the dude ever wanted was his hunk of junk truck back!\u2019&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>(Harrington&#8217;s Friend)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">16 days after losing his pride and joy, the loveable Landy was returned by the same tow truck.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>&#8220;I am seriously astonished. I just hope everyone else can get their trucks back too.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">(<em>Harrington, upon the rightful return of his 110<\/em>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nexi.tv\/landroverslive\/files\/2014\/09\/US_returns_Defenders.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3438\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nexi.tv\/landroverslive\/files\/2014\/09\/US_returns_Defenders.jpeg\" alt=\"US_returns_Defenders\" width=\"330\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexi.tv\/landroverslive\/files\/2014\/09\/US_returns_Defenders.jpeg 330w, https:\/\/www.nexi.tv\/landroverslive\/files\/2014\/09\/US_returns_Defenders-300x227.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">(<em>Image: www.lro.com)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>14 Defenders have been safely returned to their owners, in the USA. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[68,176,6,94,177,69,178,54,175,97,179,173,55,174,96],"class_list":["post-3437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-68","tag-176","tag-4x4","tag-america","tag-confiscation","tag-defender","tag-dhs","tag-land","tag-lawyer","tag-number","tag-regulations","tag-returned","tag-rover","tag-usa","tag-vin"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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