1983 Range Rover

[RangeRover83]

As opposed to flinging out my first as a reply to some other topic I reckoned I would do it blathering on about my new beast.

Despite the objections of the logical part of my brain and better half I decided to purchase a 1983 2Dr, manual transmission Range Rover. A very rare find as these babies weren't brought over to the great white north until the late 80's early 90's. Fortunately the previous owner was a passionate land rover specialist with an engineering degree and a heavy Russian accent, as such she runs like a charm and I look forward to off roading it as much as possible and using it as an excuse to not make it to work...

[Devlin]

Congrats on the new vehicle and welcome to the board.

[ktrout]

A bumper sticker I once saw on a Range Rover:
"The parts falling off of this vehicle are of the finest British manufacture"
Looks nice :).

[RangeRover83]

A bumper sticker I once saw on a Range Rover:
"The parts falling off of this vehicle are of the finest British manufacture"
Looks nice :).

She is pretty sparse inside and not much on the outside so I think all of the nice bits have fallen off. My only concern is all of the Lucas bits that are still around.

[RYP]

Slow as a glacier but reliable. I own two Range Rovers and I can confirm that they only begin to settle down and stop breaking after about 150K miles and after all the parts have been replaced at least twice with remanufactured ones.

[nowonmai]

A bumper sticker I once saw on a Range Rover:
"The parts falling off of this vehicle are of the finest British manufacture"
Looks nice :).

Reminds me of the old chestnut about the Hercules aircraft - 10,000 rivets flying in close formation.