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nickhand

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Hi everybody I'm in Oklahoma USA and have just purchased a 1996 Land Rover Discovery with a 5 speed manual transmission. That's a little unusual here, mostly autos. My first Land Rover but I do have a 1980 Rover SD1. I bought the Land Rover 1350 miles away sight unseen and flew out and drove it home. Looks like a good place to help me keep it running!
 
nickhand said:
Hi everybody I'm in Oklahoma USA and have just purchased a 1996 Land Rover Discovery with a 5 speed manual transmission. That's a little unusual here, mostly autos. My first Land Rover but I do have a 1980 Rover SD1. I bought the Land Rover 1350 miles away sight unseen and flew out and drove it home. Looks like a good place to help me keep it running!
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Welcome to LZ, Nick. :)

Should be a nice motor, I would prefer autobox, but they are a rarity on British built vehicles until recently.
 
I guess we all want whats not available. As for the drive when I was in the middle of no where at 10 deg F I was having doubts. It had been driven about 500 miles in the last 10 years. 113000 miles total showing
 
nickhand said:
I guess we all want whats not available. As for the drive when I was in the middle of no where at 10 deg F I was having doubts. It had been driven about 500 miles in the last 10 years. 113000 miles total showing
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Plenty of life in that yet. :)

I do have an automatic, just not in a Landrover. Historically, there was little demand for auto in Britain, due to high fuel prices. Now the autos are more efficient, tastes are changing, but ti takes time.
 
nickhand said:
Hi everybody I'm in Oklahoma USA and have just purchased a 1996 Land Rover Discovery with a 5 speed manual transmission. That's a little unusual here, mostly autos. My first Land Rover but I do have a 1980 Rover SD1. I bought the Land Rover 1350 miles away sight unseen and flew out and drove it home. Looks like a good place to help me keep it running!
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Welcome to the forum,you took a gamble but sounds like it paid off! Hope you enjoy your disco.They can be a PIA but it's worth the trouble
 
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