Time to go

[Kalincho]

I would like to inform everyone that it looks like as with Aussie, I too will soon have to depart the clan of the P38.

I still owe a substantial amount of money on it and with all the work that has been done to it the head has taken over from the heart and it's time to say a sad goodbye.

The P38 has been an educational experience to say the least, it has been great studying all about these 'sirens' of cars and reading every one else experiences with them.

I know I am not allowed to advertise, so you know where it is if you know someone who wants one in W.A.

xx Kalincho

[weeds]

no problems with advertising, its just got to be in the right spot, there is a markets area up top where you can place an as and a markets alert forum on the main page......

what are you moving onto

[mike 90 RR]

Sorry to hear this ... what are you updating to?

Mike

[Kalincho]

At this stage, the priority will be clearing the loan, I will have go back to a one car family... shudder to think the Mrs. car is a 2000 Mazda protege! I train to work so the two cars spend most of the week in the carport.

I would like to one day go the Deefer 130 route. something diesel in nature.

[mike 90 RR]

Well you must have the bug ... going from a luxury pack to the brick

:D

[Grumbles]

A very sad but perfectly understandable decision. But I think you're going to miss it....

[Kalincho]

I am having second thoughts, please let this thread sink to the last page and then we we see where we are at.. You don't realize how much time you spend checking up on the Forum's to see whats been going on...:D

[mike 90 RR]

I am having second thoughts,

The protege! is getting to you? ... :p

[Aussie]

Kalincho I am happy with the fact that I took a punt and purchased a Vehicle that I have always admired from an early age. There are 2 factors that sealed the decision for me in the end.

1) These vehicles arent getting any younger and for me the list of repairs that I carried out just seemed to be getting excessive.

2) Lack of confidence in taking long trips. I purchased the RR specifically
for long trips that I had planned. I still havent done those trips due to the fact that my brain is telling me its not a good idea. I figured why have it if I cant use it for what I wanted too. This was the crunch for me, Even after spending time and effort and $$$

[Kalincho]

Aussie, I completely agree, almost word for word. I think since I cooked the first motor so far from home, I am psychologically scarred! I have put more and more money into making it reliable only to be more paranoid that something may go wrong, not knowing as much about mechanics, makes me even more nervous! Though I have had a valuable life lesson owning this P38.

[DT-P38]

Hey, You boys should take this over elongated, self inflating, fairwell off line.:mad: Personally, I can't work out wether your trying to make yourselves feel better, or perhaps try and drag a few more of the devoted down with you??? :confused: Is it all perhaps to make yourselves feel better about the poor decision making you have recently been undertaking! :o

:D;):p:D;):pONLY JOKING, but geez it is a long drawn out painful fairwell... and no beers to go with the fair well Aussie? Perhaps you are not fully convinced of letting go just yet? Here's a thought, maybe your Rangie can become a town car for a while... keep the new one (mitsi wasn't it?) for off road and Rangie for on and soft roading... I know it hasn't done the pig any harm for the last 12 months.:angel:

Dave & pig

[Kalincho]

and here I thought this was a help forum... ;) RR anonymous.. :o

[Hoges]

Did Dame Nellie Melba own a RR?:eek::p:p

[adm333]

I don't know....... but I do know that John Farnham bought one of the very first P38s in Australia.


Soon after that he wrote the song ...... "Pressure Down"

[LavisLane]

I don't know....... but I do know that John Farnham bought one of the very first P38s in Australia.


Soon after that he wrote the song ...... "Pressure Down"

Wasn't that a song about his EAS?

[Kalincho]

I didn't dare write that! :D

[RR01]

Don't know if you fellows are still about but every time I have taken my P38a it ends up being the recovery vehicle not the recovered.

You have to remember the golden rule for all cars, "maintenance is not optional."

These cars cost in the vicinity of $100,000.00 new. To then think that you can take one of the most advanced vehicles for their time and neglect it, then expect it to be trouble free is a bit unfair.

My 1996 P38A has 320,000kms on the clock and never misses a beat. It has had a rebuild at 250,000k's I have taken the vehicle into some of the most remote places in this country with no problems.

Cheers SG

[rofosixone]

so true RR01,total agree.i still run on my 1996 p38a original untouched or unopened motor /auto box /diffs and done 285,000km+ because change all oils at 3,300/5,000 /10,000km reg /and i still give it too. ps when mine was new, looked at invoice said $99,500 /your close .

[PaulP38a]

Kalincho - I make the same offer to you as I did to Aussie... once bitten by the P38 bug anything else will be a compromise... what help do you need to stay "in the tent/asylum"? You know this forum is here to help and poke fun at anything that moves (or not!) and as the co-owner of Hard Range if I can help it will be my pleasure to keep another "mate" (and potential customer) on-side.

PM, contact via hardrange.com or give me a call if I can assist or you just want to chat about "stuff".

Cheers, Paul.

[Kalincho]

It looks like by the end of the week Rangie will be sold,( I have taken a deposit)

As mentioned in the first post the majority of the decision to sell was to pay off the unsecured loan that i had remaining from buying the car and fixing it after the engine rebuild.

I am looking at it quite positively as now with a soon to be clean slate I will be able to start over.

I am determined to stay in the Landrover Family and have set my sights on a Defender 130 crew cab (I pointed one out to SWMBO at the train station today;)) or a 110, hopefully as early as the end of this year.

I know it will be no comparison to the drive of the P38, though I have not driven a newer car to match yet.

As I said to the MRS, a little piece of me died today.. I will pass on the details of this forum to the new owner, he has had classics in the past and knows what he is getting into..:p

[mike 90 RR]

I am determined to stay in the Landrover Family and have set my sights on a Defender 130 crew cab


Just remember to post up some pics .... :)