Is it worth saving? 50th anniversary Discovery?
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if you are going to do it as an original it will cost you more, as an ordinary disco you can fabricate your own bits etc, but a lot of work to do them, also the cost if you have to pay somebody, sell it!!!!, wash the **** off it first and then people wouldn't know it has been used for a tractor/dos mobile
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Who let the tratter driver in ere?
Why would a 50th Deafener be worth saving more than a 50th Discovery? Think you miss the point, a 50th is a 50th, a Discovery is far better than a Deafner
Have owned a 50th defender among others TD TDI td5. Very special v8 nas style that you just couldnt buy in that era otherwise. Pity it wasn't 4.6 tho. Rare and valuable.
Currently a rrc owner dear boy, so a cut above you disco apologists
At the end of the day, for the same reason I didn't save my dog's 50th ****e,
It was a great big steaming turd
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I apologise for nothing, I chose a Disco above a RRC as "been there, done that" and a good few times with 3.5s and 3.9s and last RRC was fitted out with a 4.6 THL block and some rather interesting head work had been done to help it along, now that was rather quick!!!
Discovery selected over a Deafener as I want comfort in the cab, I simply cannot get comfortable in a Deafner and they just have no appeal for me. Granted, a great many guys buy a Disco as they can't afford a Deafner, I wanted and bought the right vehicle for me.
As far as the argument for saving Vs scrapping, personal vehicle choices aside, I see very little point in just scrapping any vehicle, all problems can be fixed, tons of parts available for it, and it is a special limited edition, all boxes ticked, get your grinder and welder to the ready.
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Discovery selected over a Deafener as I want comfort in the cab, I simply cannot get comfortable in a Deafner and they just have no appeal for me. Granted, a great many guys buy a Disco as they can't afford a Deafner, I wanted and bought the right vehicle for me.
As far as the argument for saving Vs scrapping, personal vehicle choices aside, I see very little point in just scrapping any vehicle, all problems can be fixed, tons of parts available for it, and it is a special limited edition, all boxes ticked, get your grinder and welder to the ready.
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Point taken, you'd prefer a rrc to have extra weight up top, more overhang and body roll
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Have owned a 50th defender among others TD TDI td5. Very special v8 nas style that you just couldnt buy in that era otherwise. Pity it wasn't 4.6 tho. Rare and valuable.
Currently a rrc owner dear boy, so a cut above you disco apologists
At the end of the day, for the same reason I didn't save my dog's 50th ****e,
It was a great big steaming turd
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ive allways prefered disco over rrc and p38
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Point taken, you'd prefer a rrc to have extra weight up top, more overhang and body roll
More overhang
Can't find it but Disco is not any longer than a RRC and certainy the LSE variant is longer still Top heavy, body roll. Erm, not by much and my first RRC wallowed like a pig in a mud pit in any sort of cornering, not really seeing this with my current 200Tdi and certainly not with the last Disco which was a 3.9 auto and driven enthusiastically everytime we went out in it.
I am floundering here with finding your argument validity, apart from, you have your opinion which says scrap it, then again, think you'd say that if the 2014 MY L405 got a puncture too
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Point is land rover have rolled out loads of not really special editions. What was special about this one? Bonny paint and a plaque. If they had fitted a 4.6 and uprated springs, it would be something special.
If it were a csk, a Holland and Holland, or a defender 50th to name but a few it would be worth saving.
If it were a csk, a Holland and Holland, or a defender 50th to name but a few it would be worth saving.
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Looks like this is being sold to a member on here as a winter project
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