We will look at some of their collection and discover some interesting details you may not have known about these star cars.Robert Plant would be the most likely man to own a show off 'star' car. His life off the road was down to earth and practical.
The first car purchase he made was a Jaguar two door hardtop known as an XJ coupe. These cars were much loved and only made for a few years before Jaguar dropped it in favor of the four door sedan style.
Robert's XJ was totalled in 1970 in an accident coming home from a Spirit concert near Kidderminster. Other than some injuries which required hospitalisation, Plant was okay. Plant bought a hobby farm to retreat from the public and needed a truck to do chores. He got a 1948 GMC 3100 step side pick up. It was stock with the inline six cylinder. Plant said of it, "she's a great old girl, but you have to watch out sometimes for the petrol dripping onto the manifold and catching fire."
Plant also drove another vehicle frequently, a Land Rover 90. "We went driving for hours and the further south we went, the more it seemed like a different country. We tried to get down to the Spanish Sahara at a time when war was breaking out. We kept hitting these roadblocks where we'd get machine guns pointed at us and we'd wave our passports furiously and tell then we were going to bathe at the next beach. We go a little further, hit another roadblock and do the same thing. We wanted to reach Tafia, but eventually things got so bad we had to turn back."
, Plant did have another sublime experience driving a Land Rover. It helped him conjure one of Zeppelin's most famous songs, "Kashmir." Plant takes up the story once again, "I had been going towards Tan Tan from Goulamine. I kept bumping down this desert track without anyone around for miles except for the odd guy and his camel. The whole inspiration for the song came from the fact that the road was a single track cutting across the desert. It was like driving through a channel. I thought, this is great but one day, I'll see Kashmir."
