The Range Rover Classic thread:
Discussion
NomduJour said:
It's got a Lloyds badge on the back so would be a hoot and properly put together. My main issue with mine is that it is just so slow!Couple of interesting armoured ex-Police/MoD Rangies for sale…
https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1647326
https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1647326
jon-yprpe said:
Couple of interesting armoured ex-Police/MoD Rangies for sale…
https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1647326
I want that just for the aerialshttps://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1647326
what are the long white ones from front to the holders on the back?
squirdan said:
Quite a nice story in this months LRO
Bloke restored his grandads In Vogue
But...
The blue cars this colour were 2 door?
The first 4 doors were silver or gold
And a 1983 car would have been Derwent Blue
So something doesn't q add up! Maybe they just repainted it in the wrong colour
As for £15k in bits- should have bitten their arm off! (Sentimental value aside)
That would be mine ! Just found this post after randomly searching the reg plate. The colour is an oddity, but it’s always been that colour (we have a photo of it when he picked it up). Still got the old bus, just sat in the garage waiting to be tax exempt next April. It did 5 miles last year and was tax (£360?) throughout that!Bloke restored his grandads In Vogue
But...
The blue cars this colour were 2 door?
The first 4 doors were silver or gold
And a 1983 car would have been Derwent Blue
So something doesn't q add up! Maybe they just repainted it in the wrong colour
As for £15k in bits- should have bitten their arm off! (Sentimental value aside)
ian arthur said:
squirdan said:
Quite a nice story in this months LRO
Bloke restored his grandads In Vogue
But...
The blue cars this colour were 2 door?
The first 4 doors were silver or gold
And a 1983 car would have been Derwent Blue
So something doesn't q add up! Maybe they just repainted it in the wrong colour
As for £15k in bits- should have bitten their arm off! (Sentimental value aside)
That would be mine ! Just found this post after randomly searching the reg plate. The colour is an oddity, but it’s always been that colour (we have a photo of it when he picked it up). Still got the old bus, just sat in the garage waiting to be tax exempt next April. It did 5 miles last year and was tax (£360?) throughout that!Bloke restored his grandads In Vogue
But...
The blue cars this colour were 2 door?
The first 4 doors were silver or gold
And a 1983 car would have been Derwent Blue
So something doesn't q add up! Maybe they just repainted it in the wrong colour
As for £15k in bits- should have bitten their arm off! (Sentimental value aside)
The 'In Vogue' is a much under respected car, whether 2 or 4 door given how it was the 'mainstream' car that managed to break the idea of a premium 4x4 onto the world when then US stuff hadn't made any inroads outside of America.
I enjoyed restoring mine and using it. At one point I'm sure I cornered the market and was the leading global authority on branded Brexton hampers.
One of the highlights being trying to find replacement vinyl stripes and discovering that no one in the RR community knew anything about them and that most restos had just been guessing and applying their own interpretations. After months of making little progress I was talking to my older sister when she looked at a phot of the car and said exactly where Land Rover had taken the stripes from. When I was in the sixth form my sister bought a limited edition Metro that had belonged to the Aga Kahn (strangely, despite all the people writing about his cars they never mention the s
t stuff he bought for his staff 
). Anyway, the In Vogue stripes were pilfered from an Austin Metro special edition from 1980. I suspect the blue colour also came from the same direction.
Of all the Rangies I've owned, I think this was the one that made me realise how special they actually are:
I enjoyed restoring mine and using it. At one point I'm sure I cornered the market and was the leading global authority on branded Brexton hampers.
One of the highlights being trying to find replacement vinyl stripes and discovering that no one in the RR community knew anything about them and that most restos had just been guessing and applying their own interpretations. After months of making little progress I was talking to my older sister when she looked at a phot of the car and said exactly where Land Rover had taken the stripes from. When I was in the sixth form my sister bought a limited edition Metro that had belonged to the Aga Kahn (strangely, despite all the people writing about his cars they never mention the s
t stuff he bought for his staff ). Anyway, the In Vogue stripes were pilfered from an Austin Metro special edition from 1980. I suspect the blue colour also came from the same direction. Of all the Rangies I've owned, I think this was the one that made me realise how special they actually are:
FezBob said:
I was in awe of the classic Range Rover and Dino being restored at the garage where my E30 was being restored. I remember thinking that could be a near perfect combination do it all cars for my garage. 
😂 Reading this thread and found a post I had forgotten I had written. Finally got myself an RRC in 2023. It's not a 2 door but it's a blue V8. Now I need to get hold of that Dino ![](https://thumbsnap.com/sc/iKZxbAy6.jpg[/img]</a> <a href="https://thumbsnap.com/iKZxbAy6" Target="_blank" rel="nofollow">[img]https://thumbsnap.com/sc/iKZxbAy6.jpg)
akirk said:
mine is 30 this month!
30 on Saturday - and today just clicked over 110,000 miles which makes it one of the lower mileage soft dash cars…Recently had new brakes / new rear diff / otherwise going strong - ate up the motorway from Cotswolds back to Bristol today including surprising a couple of cars with its ability to accelerate…
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