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About time I joined up I suppose!
Been a fan of the green oval for years...first car I ever drove was a 90 on a mate's farm when I was 13. Annoyingly I'm now the wrong side of 40 and I've had a few Land Rovers over the years.
-1983 Series 3 109" 2.25, ex RAF. Started as a soft top in flaky NATO green and then I ended up respraying it, converting it to a hard top with the correct split tailgate, and the wrong FC/Camel rims on Trac Edges. Sold it about 12 years ago.
-1995 Disco 300 Tdi in Avalon blue. Some mild off-roading mods (underbody protection, snorkel, MT tyres on the original freestyles) but she went rusty in the usual places and was recently sold and broken. Felt like I was shooting my own dog.
-2004 Freelander 1 TD4 HSE 5 door auto in silver. This is the Mrs' daily driver and is a brilliant, comfortable, capable, seriously under-rated bit of kit. Heated leather seats and windscreen, diesel fired heater for a quick warm up, satnav, CD autochanger, HDC, folding mirrors, the works. I'd always looked down my nose at these cars but they are brilliant, and ludicrously good value now too.
And my latest Land Rover, and one which will probably be for life...a 1986 110 200Tdi Station Wagon. Picked this up last night and I love it already. Lots of tinkering on silly things to do (hence joining here for advice) but very solid chassis, OK bulkhead and an engine that pulls like a train. Incredibly straight body and new seats throughout. It's a fairly boring LR blue at the mo, but I have a set of nice alloys for it and one day I'll do the old cliche of respraying it in a modern colour and de-aging it a bit, although I'll be keeping the original dash/bonnet/lift handle doors etc as the early 110 features add a bit of interest.
Don't hold this against me but I'm also a massive Porsche fan and have a 2002 Arctic silver Boxster 986 2.7 manual. Say what you want but it's a seriously impressive, and now very cheap, piece of kit which has physics-defying handling, timeless looks, and an intoxicating exhaust note. As Porsche finally start to kill the n/s flat 6 in favour of turbo flat fours and hybrid stuff and manuals make room for PDK it's simple mechanical simplicity and no electronics driving experience holds a real appeal to me. Remarkably similar to a Land Rover in many ways!
Been a fan of the green oval for years...first car I ever drove was a 90 on a mate's farm when I was 13. Annoyingly I'm now the wrong side of 40 and I've had a few Land Rovers over the years.
-1983 Series 3 109" 2.25, ex RAF. Started as a soft top in flaky NATO green and then I ended up respraying it, converting it to a hard top with the correct split tailgate, and the wrong FC/Camel rims on Trac Edges. Sold it about 12 years ago.
-1995 Disco 300 Tdi in Avalon blue. Some mild off-roading mods (underbody protection, snorkel, MT tyres on the original freestyles) but she went rusty in the usual places and was recently sold and broken. Felt like I was shooting my own dog.
-2004 Freelander 1 TD4 HSE 5 door auto in silver. This is the Mrs' daily driver and is a brilliant, comfortable, capable, seriously under-rated bit of kit. Heated leather seats and windscreen, diesel fired heater for a quick warm up, satnav, CD autochanger, HDC, folding mirrors, the works. I'd always looked down my nose at these cars but they are brilliant, and ludicrously good value now too.
And my latest Land Rover, and one which will probably be for life...a 1986 110 200Tdi Station Wagon. Picked this up last night and I love it already. Lots of tinkering on silly things to do (hence joining here for advice) but very solid chassis, OK bulkhead and an engine that pulls like a train. Incredibly straight body and new seats throughout. It's a fairly boring LR blue at the mo, but I have a set of nice alloys for it and one day I'll do the old cliche of respraying it in a modern colour and de-aging it a bit, although I'll be keeping the original dash/bonnet/lift handle doors etc as the early 110 features add a bit of interest.
Don't hold this against me but I'm also a massive Porsche fan and have a 2002 Arctic silver Boxster 986 2.7 manual. Say what you want but it's a seriously impressive, and now very cheap, piece of kit which has physics-defying handling, timeless looks, and an intoxicating exhaust note. As Porsche finally start to kill the n/s flat 6 in favour of turbo flat fours and hybrid stuff and manuals make room for PDK it's simple mechanical simplicity and no electronics driving experience holds a real appeal to me. Remarkably similar to a Land Rover in many ways!
