Land Rover is an internationally recognised brand now but this is where it all started, with this very car. HUE 166 (Huey) is the world's oldest Land Rover and I'm driving it in the place of, if not its birth, then at least its conception, 60 years ago, at Red Wharf Bay on the north Wales island of Anglesey. For it was here in the summer of 1947 that Maurice Wilks (then technical chief of Rover) came up with the idea of a world-conquering vehicle to kick-start exports for the ailing Rover car company

Climbing aboard Huey after having spent a morning cossetted inside a luxurious, supercharged Range Rover V8 is nothing short of a culture shock

There are rudimentary instruments in the centre of what barely passes for a dashboard

a couple of levers protruding from the bare metal floor, a measly, leatherette seat cushion between my bottom and the fuel tank and that's about it

Change gear and you can feel the ker-thunk as metal meets metal and the next ratio is engaged