[Closed] Old school Range Rovers

Early basic two door models really do look amazing.

Shame they're so much money now, I'll just manage along in my £500 gas powered Merc ML..

I regularly consider getting a classic, ideally with a 200tdi like my landy, but I dont have space for another and I'd never get rid of the landy so that kiboshes that. All the engineering simplcity of the CSW, but a bit more rust and tastier interior.

Lovely motor and have seen quite a few of them ‘bobtailed’ and scrapped over the years by people who must be kicking themselves now. I scratched the RR itch a few years back with a 5 litre supercharged v8. I am glad I did it but the 13mpg economy did my nut in fairly quickly 😂.

Beautiful things. Thy do like to rust though.

Check out this sill (or, perhaps more accurately, check out the gaping chasm where this sill used to be:

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I had a 4 door for a while, 3.9l V8. Was a lovely thing to drive around in, went pretty well when you pressed on but still fantastic off road and with seats that were like arm chairs.

Sub 20mph got a bit wearing though and there aren’t too many garages near me with LPG so I swapped it with a mate for a 300tdi Disco.

Last boss had an ex SAS one with a roll cage and mountings for all the external assault platforms, lots of random wiring for comms gear in it too. Was supposed to still be a std 3.9 v8 like mine but despite being far heavier it would leave me for dead!

His was lpg’d Which made it less painful to run but he sold it to a collector from the US and exported it last year...

 Way more appealing than the current incarnation

They are lovely and seem to radiate a certain air of refinement, unlike the new one I saw yesterday in South-central Leamington Spa that had every single conceivable piece of bodywork that wasn't the main panels, chromed... 😳

There is a lad up the road from me near Sandringham who owns a fully restored model that belonged to Princess Diana, hate to think what it is worth now but it is beautiful in that green colour.

Closest i came was owning a Land Rover 101 Forward Control with the V8 and running gear from the RR.

For all the nostalgia they are lovely but there are 4 svr varieties at work and by God I'd have one in a heartbeat. However one of the svr owners who we work for also has an immaculately restored original range rover like the above.

My dad had 3 back in the day - they were unreliable tosh in the 70s. Can't imagine what they are like now!

A fun time was when we were towing a caravan and the gear lever came off in his hand. Oh how we laughed! 🙂

EDIT: to be fair, everything was unreliable in the 70s!

i worked for a company years ago in East London that kitted out Landies for exped use and travelling, i remember a posh lady coming in one day to ask what the small lever next to the gear lever was for...

Just messaged my friend i mentioned above, his RR that was Princess Di's has a insurance valuation of £160,000k!

Big fan here. Loved driving dad's first gen around as a kid. Have a totally stock 11-year old one at the mo. Took time to find one that hadn't been 'blinged' i.e. no big wheels, no tints, no chrome bits added. Lovely car IMO.

I do have good memories of ours though - as a kid I always used to sit in the wide bit between the front seats map reading for my dad.

And going to Burghley Horse trials was fun - you only paid per car then, so we'd have 8 or 9 people crammed into it (including 2 in the boot on bean-bags!).

I love the classic range rovers - I used to drive my bosses around the UK and sitting at 80 mph you could watch the fuel gauge going down. It was 100 quid a fill back then, it also broke down a lot.

A work colleague once sat on the split rear hatch when I was driving off road. I shouted out u ok, he had fallen off about 5 miles away.

Very few around now, this was 1983.

Meh not getting it myself, an ugly box on wheels, makes the RR Cullinan look pretty.

Nice motor. This is an excellent video to show some of the charm of an original RR, but that also highlights how agricultural they are compared to a modern car…

Do like Harry Metcalfe. Recognise the roads, must be near us somewhere...