Not everyone’s entirely sure what the long-term effects of the UK’s messy breakup with the EU will be, but the quickest, most apparent fallout of Brexit has been the plummeting value of the British pound. After the referendum vote, it plummeted to $1.32 in value, the lowest it’s been in 31 years. As of this writing it’s rebounded to around $1.33, but experts are suggesting it could fall even further. Not great for the UK. But good for you if you’ve been eyeing up some British classics to import, you enterprising American.
Britain, like the rest of the world, got a lot of cool shit we never got in the US. And while most of their greatest hits have been available in Europe, there are still tons of great old British cars that have been just waiting to cross the pond. Think old Minis, farm-spec Defenders and performance Fords from the ‘80s and ‘90s. With the value of the pound about 10 percent less than it was before Brexit, on the scale of car buying it’s savings in the hundreds, even thousands.
1990 Land Rover Defender
Yes, Land Rover did bring the Defender to the US, but the value of US-spec cars has shot up incredibly. In the UK, old Defenders are less status symbols and more farm trucks, so they’re plentiful, simple and affordable.
