SAS Pink Panther Land Rover: The Special Air Service Regiment’s Unique Patrol Vehicle

The sturdy, purpose-built vehicle shaped the SAS’s operational history by enabling global deployments and rigorous training through enduring performance and stealthy capability.

SAS Pink Panther Land Rover takes a pioneering and refreshingly captivating deep-dive approach to understanding the hugely significant impact the Marshall of Cambridge SAS Land Rover had on members of the Special Air Service Regiment. Moreover, it offers a unique perspective on this iconic vehicle and its contribution to the success and future landscape of the SAS.

Drawn from the meticulous gathering of once-thought-lost technical data, and despite the fact that much such information has been destroyed or remains classified, every facet of the evolution of the SAS Land Rover Pink Panther is covered and captured with an admirable level of mastery and first-hand knowledge.

Containing many previously unseen personal photographs and associated SAS Land Rover memorabilia, the highly detailed annotations to the glorious illustrations provide intriguing insights into the SAS Land Rover – offering a profound and rounded understanding of the vehicle, proving its mettle through the rigours of development, trials and training, coupled with endless deployments, and two dramatic decades of operational use. The book's unique visual and granular approach is further complemented by empirical and authoritative text that unlocks the veil of secrecy and evolutionary hurdles surrounding a vehicle that went on to serve British special forces interests with distinction.

Loaded with a wealth of historical information and drawing on a wide variety of documentary sources and unpublished material, and with enlightening contributions, this benchmark of a book captures, illuminates and brings to life the atmosphere and bureaucracy of the military and government of the day.

Unrivalled in its breadth and visual impact, this unique chronicle weaves a compelling narrative to inform readers about the ground-breaking vehicle that saw active service around the globe and its crucial role in the historical context of the Special Air Service Regiment.

It is also a discovery, providing clarity and insight into the world of the SAS ‘Pinkie’. It seeks to provide the reader with a wealth of new, previously unpublished information. SAS Pink Panther Land Rover is an essential and unparalleled addition to your special forces and Land Rover library.

ADRIAN HAYWARD-WILLS is proud to say he is a British Army veteran, having enlisted in 1981. He later served in other Government agencies, a period in which he served two monarchs, advised the Metropolitan Police, the Prison Service, several Heads of Diplomatic Missions, Counter Terrorist Teams and the UNDP, UNAMA and the ICRC. He has operated globally in specialist roles, all at the forward edge of contact. Yet, while delivering at pace, he has emerged unscathed, having served in fragile locations most people care to see only on 24-hour news channels. He was also a qualified Close Protection Officer and a certified Medicines in Remote Areas practitioner, where he perfected his unique skill sets of humility, discipline, resilience, and humour when on task. Ending his service between deployments with the Rwandan Defence Force and Diego Garcia, he finally hung up his boots and medals in 2023.