Range Rover Classic - to restore or not?

[ClaphamGT3]

What do we think?

I have a 1982 Range Pover Classic 4-door. 82k miles from new, 2 previous owners, never welded and never painted. A proper time warp car. It has a few corrosion bubbles and a bit of scuffing on the paintwork and, around the door frames, there's increasing - so far surface - rust.

so, do I;

• Leave it completely original & put up with a bit of scruffiness
• Get it completely sorted & immaculate
• Do localised repairs on an 'as little as possible to stave off deterioration' basis

[DKL]

I'd do something akin to 3 but maybe a bit more proactive. I gather these things can swallow whole bundles of cash so look hard and see if £100 spent here and there can stop a bill for £1000 of work in a couple of years.

It rather depends on what you can do yourself too.

Also, use it. Mechanically it will be all the better for it and then bits will need changing but (hopefully!) in and orderly fashion.

Edited by DKL on Wednesday 7th April 22:49

[jdw1234]

If its not too bad it wont cost much will it?

Just get the lot done. Less then 6 months depreciation on a new one I bet.

The classic is a lovely car.

[Peter66]

I have the same options for my 82 Monteverdi Range Rover. I would love to stop the small corrosion and leave the car in its nice original paint. It doesn't need to be immaculate to me, because I want to use it. I think the challenge will be to find a good painter/metal worker who can repair the bad bits without too much colour change. Has anybody done this successfully before or do most go for a full repaint job?

Peter

[West4x4]

if its all under the skin repairs dont touch the original paint if you have to fix panels then your going to want it all to match which means doing a proper job