Dixon Kenner has had a long involvement with Land-Rovers and British cars dating back into the 1980’s where he owned a few Austin Mini’s, had a slight side deviation to a Triumph TR7 and then acquired his first Land Rover, the Big Green Beastie, a 1964 109 Station wagon in the late 80’s.

After finding the BGB in the pre-Internet days, he discovered Ottawa Valley Land-Rovers.  Joining, he eventually became the editor, for the first time, to their monthly newsletter in 1994, through to 2001.  He would reprise this role for a second time in 2012-13, and was then asked to be the temporary editor for a third time in January 2017.  Since then, he has been expanding upon the meaning of the word “temporary”.  As of the Summer of 2025, he had produced 215 issues spanning some 5,500 pages.  The newsletter, now a PDF, has an extensive readership.

Dixon, along with Ben Smith, established the Land-Rover FAQ in the mid-Nineties, and the first OVLR web presence in 1998 when both ran off of the dining room table network, another temporary arrangement that lasted for a decade and a half.  For OVLR.org, this temporary arrangement managing the site was only twenty five years.  For the past decade, Dixon and Ben have also managed the North American Series One Register and website.  Both sites are references for Series owners with a wealth of material on repairs, build records, history etc.

Dixon has written extensively on Land-Rover postage stamps and vintage diecast toys as well as on Land-Rover literature and publications as well as the history of the North American Dollar Area (NADA) Land-Rovers available in the US and Canada. These articles have been published in the OVLR magazine, the Land-Rover Register “Full Grille” magazine, the Land-Rover Series One Club “Legend” magazine, and Series Two Club “Built to Last” magazine.  Not content with just writing, he also assists fellow Director John Kostuch with his CentreSteer Podcast when he is not raising questions about how many NAS Freelander 1’s are still on the road compared to NADA Series One 80 inches.

Dixon has been secretary of OVLR in the 1990’s, was Secretary of ANARC’s first iteration of the late Nineties and early 2000’s, and is currently vice-president of ANARC second existence.  He is also Secretary of the Tunison Foundation, a 501(c3) foundation that operates Placid Lassie, a D-Day veteran C47 from the Second World War, where he also helps re-enactors leave Placid Lassie over drop zones.

Dixon’s current fleet includes four Series One 80 inches, a 1962 109 station wagon and a 1976 101 Forward Control.