4x4s.org AN INDEPENDENT ENTHUSIAST PROJECT

A registry of
classic 4×4 vehicles

A research registry of 1,897 vehicles across 64 marques: their histories, working vehicles and military types, trim levels and licence-built versions, paint codes, chassis numbers and makers, each record with its sources.

1164NAMED VEHICLES 733CONFIGURATIONS 249MANUFACTURERS 292HISTORY CHAPTERS 62CATEGORIES
01 · RESEARCH

The collection

Every catalogued vehicle, filterable by lineage, category, decade, country and maker. Each record carries a specification, a history of its role, renders and photographs, and its sources.

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02 · READ

The histories

Police, fire, rescue, ambulance, military, expeditions, working jeeps, working land cruisers, working fords, working uazs, working internationals, working mercedes-benz, working, working vehicles, motorsport, fire and rescue, motorsport and expeditions and africa and the desert: each brand's vehicles in their working roles — Land Rover, Aktiv, Alvis, AM General, ARO, Arquus, Austin, BMC, Borgward, Bowler, Chevrolet, Citroën, Cournil, Cushman, Dacia, Daihatsu, Daimler, Delahaye, DKW, Fiat, Ford, GAZ, GKN Sankey, Guy Motors, Humber, International Harvester, Isuzu, Iveco, Jeep, Kamaz, Krupp, Kurogane, Lada, Lamborghini, Linn, LuAZ, Mahindra, Mercedes-Benz, Mitsubishi, Morris Commercial, Moskvitch, Mowag, Nissan, Oshkosh, Peugeot, Plasan, Ram / Dodge, Reynolds Boughton, SAMIL, SHERP, Škoda, Steyr-Daimler-Puch, Stonefield, Supacat, Suzuki, Toyota, Tucker Sno-Cat, UAZ, UMM, Vickers-Armstrongs, Volkswagen, Volvo, White and Zastava — written from the records in the registry.

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03 · WHO

The makers

The manufacturers, coachbuilders, armourers, licence builders and military workshops that built or converted the registry's vehicles, from Solihull, Toledo and Toyota City to Carmichael, Marshall, Santana, Hotchkiss, Mahindra and Arab American Vehicles.

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EXPEDITIONS · THE ATLAS

Expeditions and the atlas

The overland journeys the registry's vehicles made — trans-Africa, the Sahara, the Americas, the Camel Trophy years — mapped route by route, with the vehicles that made them.

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EQUIPMENT

Equipment and fittings

Winches, racks, lamps, bumpers, snorkels and the rest of what these vehicles carried, with the makers and the vehicles they are recorded on.

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Contributions

Suggest a vehicle or a correction

Works-brigade appliances, licence-built military vehicles and one-off conversions are the least documented records. Photographs, fleet lists and chassis numbers are the most useful evidence.