I saw a 1984 6X6 Range rover for sale the other day. It was stated that it is 1 of 14 built buy Range Rover for the Sultan of Brunie for expeditions.
Has anyone heard of these before or has any more information on them? Or is it just some sort of clever advertisement?

There was a great page about the place on range rover conversions, but I can't find the link. He did have some made I beieve, howevera lot of companies did conversions. I have laid my eyes on one in the flesh at hobart once.

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You know, strictly speaking, throttling the staff is my job

Ive seen a couple here in vic that had the rear diff driven by a electric motor that only operated in low range

If it is the silver one in Vic for sale, I was going to have a look at it. Did a lot of searching to try and determine what it was and who it was built for. Could only find one other like it in the world. That owner was also looking for information about who made it. If it had been made by one of the main conversion people at the time it would have been clearly labelled as to who did the conversion. Also did a bit of research on Rangies built for the Sultan. Could not find any reference to a vehicle like that belonging to his fleet. It also did not appear to have the level of fit-out that you would expect in one of his vehicles.

So come the end of the day I could not determine who did the conversion or who the previous owner might of been. I therefore did not bother making the trip to check it out.

Yea, I have some info in one of my mags here, now wich one was it. Got boxes of them If I find it I will post up if no one else does. Tony

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try doing a search for Town and Country they did a lot of conversions from the uk in the 80/90's

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found the page I was looking for, have a look here

Range Rover Conversions - updated 1st June 2006

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1981, Series 3 FFR. 33-727 - Grover
1961, Series 2 Ambulance. 108-098 - Eden

Registry of Ex Military Land Rovers Mem. 129
Defence Transport Heritage Tasmania Mem. 12

You know, strictly speaking, throttling the staff is my job

Thanks Phoenix for the link, will have a closer look and see what I can dig up.

The vehicle I saw was the silver one in Vic. Had a look at the range rover conversion website and it looks like a conversion perfromed by Grand Prix metalcraft Ltd.

Dang ugly things but very interesting

The 2 door convertables look ok

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