Welshdragon wrote:

but in essence the D1 is only a rebodied RR

This was our third Range Rover, a 1990 3.9 Vogue Auto. Previous to this we had a 1978 3.5 Manual and I cant recall the year of the 3.9 Auto we had!

nice collection there Paul.I haven't got previous experience of the classic but I feel there will be one in my future collection.Too much trawling of the classifieds tells me that..

RR2008HSE wrote:

That rolled Classic looks like it came out pretty well. Still has a good amount of headroom.

DavidL wrote:

Welshdragon wrote:

but in essence the D1 is only a rebodied RR

Burn him, burn him. Sacrilege.

They had the same door handles from the Austin Marina of good ( ha ha ) British Layland!  If it dont work.......burn it!

If the IId tool cant fix it.......burn the FF.

If the FF cant be fixed......buy a Land Cruiser!

If the LC cant be fixed..............................................BUY a horse !!

I'm to young to have really owned one when they were in production and too skint when they finished.
My Dad had about 4 of them and then the P38 he loved them more than his kids, Which now i can understand
The last he had was a 4.2 LSE which i wish i now own.

Ive looked at a couple myself but the wife keeps telling me i'm not a car collector.  2020 Porsche Panamera Turbo Hybrid (V FAST)
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CSK wrote:

RR2008HSE wrote:

That rolled Classic looks like it came out pretty well. Still has a good amount of headroom.

The car actually rolled 3 times! I'm glad I was driving a Range Rover, it probably saved our lives!
Love Paul's Classic, you should probably have kept her. She's probably worth more than either of the two that followed now.

THREE TIMES!!! Then that's hugely impressive. I doubt many modern cars would do that well. You're a lucky man.

I had a 1976 Masai Red Classic in late eighties/eary nineties. Tin worm got the chassis in the end. My father-in-law still has a 1980 Dog Turd Brown (I think its called russet brown) classic in good nick. He's waxoyled it since had first got it in the mid eighties. Its stiil even got its original bottom tailgate!!!!!!

I have had several including the VM Diesels and have still got my last Classic, a 3.9 Auto, mint condition, 90K miles FSH, every MOT and Invoice.

Plus she will leave a RR Sport with their tiny 2.7 diesel engines standing, she will do 60 in around 9 seconds thanks to no Air Con, No ABS, No air Suspension and no ancillaries sapping power from the V8.

Equipped with a straight through pipe she sounds better than a TVR Griff and makes a 5.0 SC sound limp - there is absolutely nothing better than the beat of a Rover V8 - according to JE the firing order is different to modern V8's hence the engine tone.

fisha wrote:

I do seriously miss having an RRC ... just something about it. The wife hated the offroader, however the big RR was a P38 which seemed to fail just when we needed it ... each time, the RRC stepped in and did the job.

I keep saying to the wife that there is still a play-car in me ... one last one.

( dont read further if you think RR's should be stock form )

What I have in mind at the moment is a road going RRC:

RRC - 4 door.
V8 + LPG + side exit exhausts
Stiff suspension / dampers ( maybe a -1" drop )
20" BMW X5 alloys - staggered
Widened arches for the wheels

I had also thought about a fast-back RR. looking back at the old photos, I found these 2 sketches I did years ago ... man .... i forgot about those ... must be from about 2002 timeframe,

It's been done chap
... by some girl called Lizzy W, apparently...

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had 3 classics rot boxes every one of them
cut one down to a 90" handled like a mini could park it in the tightest of spaces
cant find a pic of the 3rd one

They are very far and few to find here in the States but I do hope to find a nice specimen soon that I can put in my garage.

I have a 1988 3.5 V8 EFI and a 1993 4.6 (p38 engine) V8 LSE, both in Green. the 1993 has been off the road as it has got terrible rust, but is stored on a farm where it is still used daily. The 1988 was a recent purchase, in almost perfect condition. Hope to keep this one for a very long time. (was also first registered on the road in the same month i was born, Jan 1989!) 2017 L405 Range Rover TDV6 Corris Grey
1988 3.5 Range Rover Classic
1993 4.2 Range Rover Classic LSE

The queen's much tall than you think.

campaj1 wrote:

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This was mine, sold it last year as i just wasn't using it: