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PDX Rovers and Bend Rovers are now on Facebook – feel free to join our virtual Land Rover community by becoming our friend. You will get to enjoy photos, videos, event announcements and other goodies:

http://www.facebook.com/pdxrovers

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[Bend, Oregon – August 17, 2010] This year marks the One Year Anniversary of Bend
Rovers, a local family-owned independent Land Rover service shop in Bend, Oregon –
proudly serving all of Central Oregon Land Rover owners by offering scheduled
maintenance, service & repairs, warranty and insurance work, plus custom and expedition
outfitting.

With 20 years of expertise, the founder and operator of PDX Rovers located in Portland,
Francis Watson, opened up Bend Rovers last year based on popular demand from
existing customers who wanted to avoid driving to the valley for maintenance and
repairs. Making the Bend Rovers facility modern, hi-tech and welcoming was a
community effort – for example, the inviting waiting room was designed by a local
interior designer and constructed by local craftsmen.

Received With Open Arms

“It has been an amazing year,” said Francis Watson, and he continued, “we have been
received with open arms by the Central Oregon Land Rover community. One of our goals
was to get more Land Rovers on the roads here and we believe that has happened, too.”
He added, “We are seeing an increasing amount of incoming customers who have just
purchased a Land Rover, and we are honored to partner with them in keeping their
Rovers on the road for many years to come.” The trying economic times have affected
many consumer sectors including auto maintenance and repair. Stated Mr. Watson, “We
understand the current economic climate is still moving up a steep but yet positive curve,
so we happily offer 90-day no credit in-house financing.”

Technology Additions and Facility Expansions

Over the past year Bend Rovers has added more technology, additional factory computer
diagnostic systems, and soon will expand their existing space – enabling their modern
and eco-friendly facility to accommodate even more service appointments.

Family Now Residing Here

Instead of a bi-weekly work schedule in Bend, the Bend Rovers family now calls Bend
their permanent home with their toddler girls attending local schools and activities. “We
consider our customers and vendors part of our extended family and we enjoy the
frequent meet & greet moments when we are out and about in the community and run
into fellow Land Rover drivers,” Mr. Watson concluded.

For more information about Bend Rovers, please contact Elsa Hansen at 503-358-6190 or
send an email to: elsa@bendrovers.com

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Defender 110 Driving World Explorers:

Both PDX & Bend Rovers seem to have developed a rare ability to attract Defender 110 driving world continent explorers.

It all started with the German couple Stefan & Silke who came to us in August 2008. We developed a wonderful friendship with them and had the honor of hosting their photo blog during their 2-year long driving trek from Canada to South America: http://www.pdxrovers.com/blog or http://www.pdxrovers.com/adventure.html

Francis and his son Terry even flew down to Peru and met up with Stefan and Silke and drove from Lima to Nazca to Cusco – crossing the Andes in the Defender 110.

Since then we’ve run into more wonderful travelers - and hopefully more to come as it’s so very inspiring to follow their adventures using Defender 110s:

Maximilian from Germany http://www.global-detour.com	Clayton from South Africa	Greg & Emma from Great Britain http://www.me-thee-and-bee.com

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Special Military Rates at PDX/Bend Rovers

In honor of the brave men and women who serve this country, PDX & Bend Rovers are proud to offer special military rates. Please inquire when you bring your Land Rover in for service at any of our two locations.

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Francis and Terry’s Excursion to Peru – reuniting with Stefan, Silke & “Fender”

Recently a happy reunion took place when Francis, owner of PDX Rovers and Bend Rovers, and his son Terry traveled to Peru to attend a wedding and during the very same period got reunited with the Canada-to-South-America-driving Germans Stefan and Silke. The reunion took place approximately one year after us having waved good-bye to Stefan and Silke when they left Portland after three amazing weeks. They had stayed at our house while we did maintenance work on their Defender 110 Td5 (learn more about their amazing driving expedition by clicking the 4x4 Adventures tab on our web page). After a lot of festivities in the capital Lima, Stefan, Silke, Francis and Terry piled into “Fender”, the Defender 110 Td5, and first drove south-bound to Nazca (famous for the Nazca lines) and then east-bound to Cuzco – crossing the Andes mountains and driving for hours – mostly above 14,000 feet with the highest driving point being 15,041 feet (4580 meters), The Sacred Valley of the Incas and the amazing Machu Picchu.

Please enjoy the photo batches by clicking on either one of these links:

http://www.pdxrovers.com/blog
http://www.facebook.com/pdxrovers

Thanks for looking, Francis, Terry and Elsa

Here’s a photo sampler (photos courtesy of Francis, Stefan and Silke):

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YOU’RE INVITED!
PDX & Bend Rovers Invitation Only Event!

Bill Burke, noted 4x4 expert trainer, will host a FREE
One-Day ONLY 4x4 training workshop exclusively for PDX & Bend Rover customers!


Sun. Oct 4th, 2009, 12 noon – 5 PM
Location: PDX Rovers, 604 SE Grant Street, Portland, 97214

Learn...
Light and Medium Trail Techniques
• Back Country Driving Tips •
Vehicle Tricks • Safety • And More!!!

Refreshments • Raffle Drawing

RSVP before 9/30/09 to elsa@pdxrovers.com

We’re very excited to offer our customers the opportunity to experience a free training workshop with the internationally renowned 4x4 expert trainer Bill Burke (www.bb4wa.com).

This offer is especially useful for customers who want to begin their 4x4 adventures. Get more comfortable taking your Land Rover onto more rugged Oregon backcountry terrain. Hope you can make it!

Greetings from the Watson Family!

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PDX Rovers has been asked by the Land Rover-Orbea cycle team Manger to source Land Rovers and their owners to show up at the Land Rover-Orbea “base camp”. You’ll get to be right inside the race and hear the sweet sound of blistering fast bicycle tires plus there’ll be music, food and beverages.

They have room for approx. 15 - 20 Land Rovers (their base camp is right on Park Ave … between Everett & Flanders) and it’s first come first serve! If the max is slightly exceeded they might have an adjacent parking lot available on Glisan.

We happen to know first-hand that being inside the race is rather fun as we recently cheered this team on when they did the Cascade Cycling Classic in Bend.

Please sign up by emailing elsa@pdxrovers.com

Learn more about the event from the attached pdf – and from this link: http://www.portlandtwilight.com/

Again, please RSVP to elsa@pdxrovers.com so we can keep an accurate head count and accommodate as many of you as possible!

“Go Team Land Rover-Orbea”,

Francis & Elsa

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