Auto tuning company ECD Automotive Design (formerly East Coast Defenders)' facility is over 30.000 square feet and is growing with over 50 full-time employees building award-winning specialty vehicles. The founders grew up in England, the Midlands, about 60 miles from the famous Lode Lane factory where the Land Rover Defender was made. They were surrounded by these original vehicles from an early age and mostly drove around their friends' farms, sometimes with hay bales, the family dog or the occasional farm animal. The founders, Tom, Elliot, Scott, quickly became interested in vehicles, especially classic English ones. Elliot's first car was a 1987 Austin Mini. Tom's is a '67 MGB Roadster. When Tom and his wife Emily moved to the US in 2012, they decided to open a dealership and import some of the vehicles they had been so passionate about over the years. In 2013 ECD Automotive Design opened its dealership / showroom for the first vehicles and some trucks. Tom, his brother Elliot and the first clerk, Brandon, worked 18 hour days, pulling these Land Rover Defender and rebuild them according to customer requirements. There is more about the company ecdautodesign.com.
ECD Automotive Design takes the classic Range Rover to a new level. The company recently presented the latest restomod, which is called “Project Stinky”. Despite the unusual name, it is visually and technically convincing. The …
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When someone says, “Land Rover Defender,” you might think of the functional, reliable off-road original that can often still be seen on our roads in its old form. But what East Coast Defender has created once again combines the classic characteristics...
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ECD Automotive Design, a company that has specialized in converting and restoring classic Land Rovers for some time, expanded its capabilities to the Jaguar E-Type about 2 years ago. The highly sought-after British vehicle has...
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Recently updated on August 28, 2023 at 07:48 a.m. East Coast Defender (ECD) is actually known for its Land Rover Defender restorations, specifically as restomod conversions. Now, as already indicated in 2022, they are increasingly focusing on the Jaguar brand...
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Isn't it always a pleasure to see a classic vehicle brought back to life with respect and finesse? Tuner ECD Automotive Design did just that with a Range Rover Classic from the 90s. With the creative…
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This all-electric Land Rover Defender 110 comes from the team at ECD Automotive Design and is of course, as always, a handmade one-off. The Defender 110 with a fully electric drive train can officially call itself an electric mod, because the combustion engine under the hood ...
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Recently updated on May 8, 2023 at 08:36 a.m. Restomod creations of the rustic Land Rover Defender are currently springing up like mushrooms. More and more tuners are taking on the robust off-roader to create very special vehicles. The …
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Recently updated on May 8, 2023 at 08:44 a.m. The off-road veteran Land Rover Defender has been indispensable for decades when it comes to expedition vehicles and all-wheel drive cars. Even after the introduction of the modern successor (L 663), the British classic always has ...
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ECD Automotive Design has once again completed a restomod. A classic Defender of the 110 series served as the basis, which was equipped with an eight-speed automatic transmission and a supercharged V8 engine from General Motors. "Project Sweet Pea" is a 1995 model that was part of...
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From the team of ECD Automotive Design (East Coast Defender) from Kissimmee in Florida comes this converted Defender. The vehicle was created under the project name "Project Freedom" and is based on a Defender 90 from 1985. The classic got a ...
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