SOTW: Land Rover Discovery V8
Shed gets its Disco on. Flared jumpsuit optional
But the Disco was a hugely important car for Land Rover. It created the brand (before the Discovery Land Rover was just a model name), it helped to bridge the ever-widening gap between the workhorse Defender and the luxo-4x4 Range Rover, and it gave the Rover group something to counter the encroaching Japanese 4x4s.
Underneath, the Discovery was in fact largely based on the Range Rover; it used its big brother's ladder-frame chassis, and even the venerable Rover V8 (although Rover was initially reluctant to give the Discovery the Range Rover's fuel injection).
It all worked pretty well - getting positive reviews in the press and selling in big numbers. These days, cheap Series 1 Discoveries are generally a bit tatty, a victim of either a life as a family workhorse, or as a recreational mud-plugger. This one looks like it might have seen service as the former, especially as it's the seven-seat version. It looks pretty tidy, however, with a reasonable 93,000 miles on the clock.
At £695 we can't think of another car that might pull-off the near-Rangie kudos and big V8 combination. Except for an actual Range Rover. But what to do with it? Well, you could stick in an LPG conversion and keep it as a load-lugging family car, or you could jack the suspension, lob on some knobbly tyres and a snorkel, and go off-roading. Gripped, sorted, etc...
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1994 Land Rover Discovery 4.0 V8i Adventurer 7 Seat 5dr Sw, £695
1994 (04 reg)4x493,000 milesManual4.0LPetrol
5 Door Estate, Petrol, auto Air conditioning,p/ a/s Passenger airbag, Roof rails Adjustable cloth seats,cd player mot august 2012 tax may 2012 ideal off roading vehicle px to clear but may px. £695
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