With the recent popularization of “overlanding” vehicles, many truck and SUV buyers are looking to equip their rigs with a never-ending list of aftermarket upgrades and accessories. Lift kits, skid plates, oversized mud tires, light bars, communications and navigation tech, winches and recovery equipment, auxiliary power systems, refrigerators, showers — almost everything but the kitchen sink. We won’t deny that all this gear makes for a very comfortable and capable vehicle, but is it necessary? Rewindbacktotheearly1960s, and you’ll see that the concept of overlanding was quite different. A bare-bones, rugged vehicle with four-wheel drive and adequate clearance was the basic formula, and few vehicles epitomize it more than the classic Land Rover. Along with its cohort, the American Willys Jeep, the original British Land Rover (and its successor the Land…