The prices dealers are asking may be going up, but you'd have to be mad to pay those prices.
The trouble is, some clown who has won the lottery or had a lockdown govt payout will probably buy it, and then every old Defender will be "worth £25,000"

lt's happened in the classic car world. Recently £10,000 for a MK4 Cortina 1.6L? Someone has more money than they know what to do with.
 
And have just had copy of The Landy arrive in the post with a Gwyn Lewis delivery [thank you, Gwyn]. What's on the front page, titled Bronzed Beauty...? The very same Cappuccino Brown 90. There's a three page write up gushing with diatribal nonsense. Nowhere does it state the near zero provenance, crusty old engine bay and less than good underside. Hell, they haven't even cleaned up the wheels and tyres for the photoshoot...
 
Nice outrigger!

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I've looked closely at the underside pics and it's not at all clean, especially for a tratter that was allegedly 'restored' in 2017. The whole underside is grotty with the suspension components covered in crud and rust...no different to an £8k Landy o_O
 
lt's an auction

Be interesting to see how much it makes. My friend has just sold a very nice 2005 TD5 XS SW for £14,000 and it took a few weeks to sell.
l would rather have had that one than the brown truck cab in the link above.
 
lightning said:
lt's an auction

Be interesting to see how much it makes. My friend has just sold a very nice 2005 TD5 XS SW for £14,000 and it took a few weeks to sell.
l would rather have had that one than the brown truck cab in the link above.
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A wise person would buy the td5 xs, but non lr people think all lrs are truck cabs or truck cabs with canvas tops.
 
lynall said:
A wise person would buy the td5 xs, but non lr people think all lrs are truck cabs or truck cabs with canvas tops.
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But non LR people just want a shiny Landy with lots of chuffing add-ons and are happy to pay £15k over value. As @lightning above, the LR market has been like the classic car market for the past 5+ years with some crazy prices. Or, are we just a bunch of old farts out of touch with the modern day LR/classic car world where punters are happy to pay £20k+ for what we see as an old Tratter?

I look at my 90 knowing what I paid for it, the endless x100's of hours of refurbishment work, new engine and parts cost invested...and know it's worth many, many more squidlets. But not a basic truck cab with a modern retro' paint job. I think I must be a young old fart...:confused:
 
wonder does that make my 1986 90 more or less valuable, best buy a new FIP for it and sell it i think....

Always vowed i would only sell it when i was so skint that i couldn't feed myself, given i have a freezer full of game, a cabinet full of guns, enough ammunition to start a war, the ability to make more ammo, that was always very unlikely..

However at those sort of prices i could trade in 3 landy's and invest them in property...not sure which is more work ?

Cant drive a house though....
 
And lets face it we are all addicted to the Green Oval and the process of "Cold Turkey" would be lengthy
 
Cavey_P38 said:
Always vowed i would only sell it when i was so skint that i couldn't feed myself, given i have a freezer full of game, a cabinet full of guns, enough ammunition to start a war, the ability to make more ammo, that was always very unlikely.
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That reminds me of a story from my rifle club and the different "holdings allowed depending on what you were shooting, some historical.
I was in Glasgow buying reloading equipment mainly because I happened to be in town and thought I'd save the postage.
While chatting to the owner he said in Glasgow they were only allowed to hold 40 rounds of any calibre max and he would like to get into reloading. I said that only be able to hold 40 rounds was a very good reason to get into reloading and parts don't count as holding ammo.
Anyway back as a club night I said to one of the guys what had been said and that compared to Glasgow I had enough to start a small war. At which one of the older really committed target shooters said that I only had enough to fight a small skirmish, Dave over there holds enough to fight a small battle but Jim over there, one of the older guys, had enough to fight a small war!:D
 
i have got enough made to stop a zombie horde or to decimate the wildlife to the point i would need several large chest freezers to hold it all..

And a lot of vermin....

Which i figure covers a wide variety of targets...
 
I reload most of my full calibre stuff as it is all unusual calibres that are hard to get up here. .303, 7.62R and 7.5 swiss:p I don't have much that is less than 70 years old!
I tend to just make it as I need it rather than have a load clogging up my cabinets.
 
In just reloading 308 for work, in the good old days it was 38spl/357, 9mm and 45acp for fun.
 
Well, no bids at all on that Land Rover at the moment.
The dealer would be better off listing at £5-10,000 estimate.
At "£29,000-34,000 estimate" and an unknown reserve it's likely people won't even bother bidding because that price is just insane.
My local LR specialist has a totally restored S2 soft top at just over £30,000 and it's better than new, it's the best one l've ever seen

If you were going to drop £30,000 on an old Landy that would be a better bet.
 
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