Thread: The ultimate RR Classic?

What happened to the 'donor' Rangie Dave??

Trav

Originally Posted by MICHELINXMS244

The Vogue LSE 1994 is the best by a country mile. If properly maintained.

Bloody Oath it was ! Beautiful, Classy, Comfortable and, umm expensive to feed.


and worth every cent.

Click on my land rovers link in my signature block below for pics of my old one.

Originally Posted by VladTepes

Bloody Oath it was ! Beautiful, Classy, Comfortable and, umm expensive to feed and worth every cent.

Click on my land rovers link in my signature block below for pics of my old one.

I've still got mine.

Originally Posted by aquarangie

What happened to the 'donor' Rangie Dave??

Trav

The silver donor is now metallic grey, stock as..... well, still has the body lift in it.
My old dears are going to use it when they visit for 3 months.

Originally Posted by jskerm

Well, sounds like everyones idea of the perfect rangey is different depending on what they use it for. As of yesterday I am the proud new owner of an '89. Now to add a Lt230 and a difflocker and im well on the way to getting my ultimate rangie!
A very big thankyou to the aulro member and his family who saw this thread and pm'd me a few options he had sitting in the yard. I went straight down and drove it home. Very happy with it. Thanks Mark! I'll have to bring it down to your neck of the woods once i get her set up and test her out!

Glad to see it go to a good home. We will definately go and test it out one weekend once you have it all sorted. Just saw your post about the rust in the floor I'll have to go home and check mine.

Originally Posted by VladTepes

Bloody Oath it was ! Beautiful, Classy, Comfortable and, umm expensive to feed.


and worth every cent.

Click on my land rovers link in my signature block below for pics of my old one.

Classy classic, definately a keeper and stick with air susp.

Well since we are talking classics.
I have a rare beast a fully engineered road registered ritters conversion 5 litre 308 Holden which comes with the 727 torque flits Chrysler transmission. A energy sapping tranny but very strong and with a 308 it still has heaps of grunt particularly off road situations. Down hill is the only area of weakness.....but one learns to adapt ones drivng style with the lt230 bieng a strong reliable transfer case . Has LPG gas conversion runs a 2 inch suspension maxi drive rear end 32 inch maxis mud terrains.rally seats saas.has a 91 rr roof incorporating a glass sliding sunroof.arb bullbar arb rear step bar with spare wheel carrier. twin batteries alloy radiator.rock sliders.
I have owned it almost 7 years and I love it.its a still a work in progress believe it or not looking at a lt 230 with reduction gears either 30 or 49%.
It runs electronic ignition as per pan cake distributor. In a word super reliable,super strong and the 5 litre is a brilliant old motor bags of cheap spares and oodles of torque rarely use more than 2000 rpm.The original 727 blew up and I got a replacement for wait for it $100 off eBay.....and it had been fully recoed. The bloke selling it didn't realise the value his loss my gain. Not great on fuel but I didn't buy it for that. I put the gas on. the gas makes it affordable. it runs better on petrol as it runs high compression and does not like the low octane rated fuel.
I have owned 6 rr's over the years and this is the best one apart from the 80 model which had a modified P76 manual on gas. Reliability is king with the current setup.

zapata1,

Some photo's and pictures of the interior would be appreciated

From memory yours would be a 4 Door classic and Ritter's reworked the interior, suspension and braking to produce a very nice package.

Weren't cheap either, and I believe that (Ritter's) sourced the 5 Ltre from Peter Brock workshop at the time.

Cheers

Baggy