RE: PH Fleet: Range Rover Vogue SE
Discussion
wiffmaster said:
- They're incredibly easy to drive around town because ...........they're box shaped with amazing visibility all round.
My intention is to own a(nother) V8 Solihull vehicle by the start of next week; I just need to decide between a Discovery and a Classic. The Discovery may just be edging it, for what I need and at my proposed budget, unless a good Classic turns up quickly. I did look round one yesterday but it was an utter shed, to the point that I didn't even bother looking inside/underneath. There are a couple of decent-looking Discoveries available near me just now, so I'll probably try those at the weekend.
Edited by CAPP0 on Thursday 24th January 10:22
DonkeyApple said:
I wouldn't worry about age at all.
As for round town, I live in central London and the old £1200 Rangey was by far the best urban car I've ever had. You can park it anywhere and not care. People let you at junctions. No one tries to carve you up. Potholes and speed bumps are an irrelevance and the turning circle is great even though curbs are also an irrelevance. I've never had a faster car for crossing London.
A genuinely fantastic urban car.
I agree with DA, my wife has a Clapham mummy car (Volvo XC90) and people will not let you out of junctions, and god help you if you drive a L322. But a classic everyone loves them, and they are just cool now. As for round town, I live in central London and the old £1200 Rangey was by far the best urban car I've ever had. You can park it anywhere and not care. People let you at junctions. No one tries to carve you up. Potholes and speed bumps are an irrelevance and the turning circle is great even though curbs are also an irrelevance. I've never had a faster car for crossing London.
A genuinely fantastic urban car.
And if you look you can get coil sprung Soft dashs, factory cars even mannual ones
krusty said:
DKL said:
Trusty Steed said:
krusty said:
A PH Classic Range Rover gathering beckons me thinks........
Im in!!http://www.pubwithnoname.co.uk/
If any PH bods read this and want me to investigate further please feel free to contact me.
I think the shape of the Range Rover Classic is very pretty and timeless.
Few years ago I had for about 8 Years a "Range Classic 1972".
Very reliable.
After sale (i was an idiot that I have sold the car) the new owner was not really a petrolhead who takes care - now the car is wrecked - too much rust under the alloy.
Now I'm looking for a Classic in good conditions.
But in Germany, Swiss and Austria the good Cars a very rare and very expensive (between 5.000 - 15.000 or sometimes a stunning one 20.000 EURO).
Cheers from Austria
Alex
Few years ago I had for about 8 Years a "Range Classic 1972".
Very reliable.
After sale (i was an idiot that I have sold the car) the new owner was not really a petrolhead who takes care - now the car is wrecked - too much rust under the alloy.
Now I'm looking for a Classic in good conditions.
But in Germany, Swiss and Austria the good Cars a very rare and very expensive (between 5.000 - 15.000 or sometimes a stunning one 20.000 EURO).
Cheers from Austria
Alex
DonkeyApple said:
666TUR said:
I bought mine in 2006 for £1000 as a cheap alternative to a defender too. It was incredibly reliable and took it on a couple of big road trips to Scotland in the snow. I even managed 21mpg, they are quite fast along rough highland lanes, plenty of power and incredibly supple suspension keeping everything under control especially when negotiating a few rocks
I bought a K reg one a few years back for £1200 and we took it on a lap of Scotland via Orkney. On the way to Aberdeen we over took an Aston on a fast sweeping blind bend. We had the fortune of being able to see over the hedge. 
That was a superb road trip.
Sold the car to a mate and it finally expired last year.
Only sold the Ginger Pig because I found the last Overfinch conversion:
And only sold that because I found the car I'd been looking for from the start, a fully galvanised and restored 1972 2 door:
Exterior is currently being converted back to original 1972 spec and the final outcome will be a 2012 interpretation of what the Overfinch should have been.
I do quite like old Rangies.
RicksAlfas said:
DonkeyApple said:
I found the last Overfinch conversion:
Great post DonkeyApple!What engine was in the Overfinch?
The 2 door is likely to be in the 400 arena and pretty much stripped out, although it will have a bespoke cage adding weight.
Paw said:
Come on DA, publish the plans. You know we cant wait to hear.
I can't really say much at this stage as one of the bits that has grown arms and legs is the aspect that it is likely to be a commercially available conversion.But, in basic theory it will look like this:
And drive a little like this:
I recently saw a late-70s 2 door being bare-metal restored and updated interior/running gear-wise with RRSport stuff (inc the 500bhp engine) - for export to Jamaica, IIRC, as post-1979 or whatever vehicles are subject to massive import duty, so this £150K project would still be half the price of importing a RRS.
I was very, very, very jealous.
I was very, very, very jealous.
Harry Flashman said:
I think I'm in love with that car.
Thanks If you haven't seen it there's the rebuild thread here - http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=105...
It's supposed to be part of a larger restoration feature in Auto Express either this week or next, no idea in what format though.
Turns out I don't have that many decent photos of it, something I hope to rectify this year as I've purchased a camera and I'm driving it down to Romania for a summer road trip.
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