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.
When two friends commission the ECD Automotive Design team to build two Land Rover Defender 90 soft-top SUVs, the result is something very special. The best example are the two vehicles from the pictures. They are almost identical on the outside and...
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We have already seen countless Restomod vehicles from the ECD Automotive Design team. The company specializes in restoring Land Rover vehicles in particular, modifying them as so-called restomods. And the latest revelation shows a...
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At regular intervals we report on the Restomod vehicles from the ECD Automotive Design team. The restoration and modification projects, often based on Land Rover vehicles, especially based on the classic Defender, are known and highly valued worldwide. And since that too...
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From the ECD Automotive Design team there is once again an extremely cool Restomod to see. And of course this is also based on a classic Land Rover Defender. Namely on a 1988 Defender 90 that was completely stripped down and restored ...
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The company ECD Automotive Design (also known as East Coast Defender) has news regarding so-called electric mods. While they previously specialized in the classic Land Rover Defender, there is now also a Jaguar E-Type conversion. Either with…
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Recently updated on March 22, 2022 at 07:01 a.m. This 2+2+2-seater Land Rover Defender 110 restomod - as Project Britton - is ready for the future! It comes from the US tuner ECD Automotive Design, which is known to specialize in conversions based on ...
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This completely restored Defender comes again from ECD Automotive Design from Kissimmee (Florida). Of course, complete with the characteristics and changes requested by the customer. And one of the wishes was apparently a Corvette LS3-V8 under the hood. The vehicle has been operating since then ...
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Recently updated on March 22, 2022 at 07:00 a.m. After we reported in August 2020 about a cooperation between ECD & ECC with regard to the Defender “E-Lander” with a 600 hp Tesla drive, another electric mod is now coming from …
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Photos by ECD Automotive Design ECD Automotive Design is known for extremely successful Land Rover Defender conversions. The company has created many unique projects in the past and now another is on the way. It is based on the Defender 130 pickup and ...
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Recently updated on January 25, 2021 at 10:33 a.m. As we have known for years, the team at ECD Automotive Design knows exactly how to make the old Defender an incredible mix of a classic British off-roader and a muscle car V8 with ...
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