WNEP-TV covers Land Rover restoration project
Thursday, March 27, 2025
Photos by Tom Speicher, writer/video producer
Penn College student Sarah E. Crabtree tells WNEP-TV’s Mackenzie Aucker about her career aspirations in the automotive restoration field. A former law student, Crabtree is restoring her father’s 1971 Land Rover to concours condition, the highest level of restoration.
Sarah E. Crabtree’s comprehensive auto restoration project, previously featured on Penn College News, brought WNEP-TV’s Mackenzie Aucker to the Penn College campus. Crabtree, of Elizabethtown, is a former law student who is restoring her father’s 1971 Land Rover to concours condition, the highest level of restoration. Aucker interviewed Crabtree about her unique background and project. She also spoke to Crabtree’s instructor, Roy H. Klinger, co-department head of collision repair. Aucker’s story on the ABC affiliate can be viewed here .
Klinger discusses the ambitious nature of Crabtree’s project, which is scheduled to be completed in May.
With the chassis of the Land Rover in the foreground, Auker asks Crabtree about the key steps of the restoration process.