The Wild Oven Defender Wood-Fired Kitchen

History

The Wild Oven began with a wood-fired oven built into a Land Rover so that it could cook anywhere a wedding, festival or party might be held. Their Defender 110 truck cab, GM02 GGJ, carries a large timber-clad box with a steel frame on its bed, the oven's mouth opening through the side and the whole rig fitting a 4.5 m square pitch; a second Land Rover and a kitchen trailer followed as the business grew. The company's photographs show the grey Defender with a spare tyre on the cab roof and five-spoke alloys set up beside a tipi with the crew cooking. Menus are built on British farm produce — wood-fired steak, crispy belly pork, flatbreads and roasted vegetables — for parties of ten to three hundred.

The registry's model is a grey Defender 110 truck cab with the timber oven box and its glowing mouth, roof-mounted spare, alloys and GM02 GGJ plates.

Imagery

Registry record

Manufacturer

Land Rover (Defender 110 truck cab)

Manufactured

GM02 registration; converted 2010s

Modifier / coachbuilder

The Wild Oven Ltd (wood-fired oven box)

Engine type

Land Rover Td5 2.5 L turbo-diesel (Defender of 2002; not stated in the source)

Production run

1

Country of origin

United Kingdom

Operated in

United Kingdom

Status

in-service

Catalogue data

Record kind

Named model

Model line

Defender

Wheels

4

Nominal wheelbase

110″

Catalogue fields describe the vehicle's structure and body as this registry records it. They are not certified factory measurements, and no performance figures are published here.

Sources & citations

Researched sources

• Fabulous wood fired food from the Land Rover ↗ — The Wild Oven (accessed 2026-09-11)
• Kitchen and ops — jobs ↗ — The Wild Oven (accessed 2026-09-11)

Catalogue references

• https://thewildoven.co.uk/fabulous-wood-fired-food-from-the-land-rover/ https://thewildoven.co.uk/fabulous-wood-fired-food-from-the-land-rover/ ↗