Thread: Show us your Classic Rangies.

Originally Posted by rovercare

Trav, have you ever owned a bloody Tojo, get over it, the same attitude you have is crap, parts are cheap, for Nissan and Tojo, just like bloody Rover's, its only a matter of knowing where to look, I've meet more people with the attitude you describe driving Rovers, than japs, rover people seem just as one eyed, with bull**** facts about japs being dear, drivers attitudes blah blah blah, sticky record

Fair enough, I don't get beaten all that often but I guess I have to eat humble pie forcefully .

I think LR owners are a pretty conservative lot and we generally don't take to those who don't have one although there's some exceptions, which really suits me because I don't like most people anyway (people I know in the club and in my general life are all top people may I add. if they wern't, i wouldn't want to know 'em)

Re-attitudes. From my expreiences on the tracks, it seems that the yobbish attitudes in the 4WD fraternity are Jap 4WD owners. Until things have changed i'll still have the same opinion about them. Look at the coloundra 4WD club thread in the general section, tells you pretty much everything you need to know about this mob.

Call me ingorant or anything else I couldn't give a rats ****, I've never owned a Jap 4WD and I don't intend on doing so in the not too distant future.

Have a good day.

Trav

[Quote]...........I've never owned a Jap 4WD and I don't intend on doing so in the not too distant future.[Quote]

Mate I owned a FJ40 in impeccable condition and a Land Rover 109 1978 in excellent condition as well. The ride of the Landy was heaps superior to the FJ40 and the cost of maintaining of the FJ40 was higher than the Landy.
I have a Disco now and in the family there are Discos, Rangies and Series 80 Toyotas (diesels & petrol)
The cost of running and maintain the Land Rovers is heaps cheaper than the series 80.

Well said Chucaro, someone who has had one. I can't really comment and shouldn't have, this would make me a hypocrit (maybe too late )

Trav

i regularly use the latest toyota products for fire brigade purposes and whilst they are good they are not brilliant. a 'cruiser cab chassis we bought recently with the blown v8 diesel is definitely over-powered to the point that we have had to put a ban on the younger drivers using it.
sadly we also lost our 3 yo landcruiser wagon in favour of a prado d4d. a poor
substitute.
i think one of the beauties of range rover ownership is that when parts appear on ebay they are not so hotly contested for as they would be for the japanese makes. equally the vehicles themselves are so cheap that it is a tribute to the lack of imagination of buyers who can't see past the lack of a toyota badge.
another plus is the quality of information and support available from publications and forums. i'm glad to have found an aussie forum though because we have quite unique problems in terms of varieties of road types and weather conditions to deal with and the consequent wear and tear this leads to. the brits spend all their time talking rust and the yanks just go on about how much money they have wasted.
and before anyone assumes i'm a jap knocker here are a couple of vehicles i love almost even more than my rangie:

Well said. I second your comments
I love the Isuzu 4WD trucks and the Canters. It is not that I regard the Toyota's or Patrols as a bad vehicles, I just think that the Land Rovers are cheap to maintain and run and also not a bad vehicles.
Having said that, I do not think that the Patrol 3,0 lts is a engine in the same league than the Tdi300 or TD5.
My favorite vehicle is the Unimog bad the the cost is to high.
Cheers

timaus13 posted a pic of his rangie earlier in this thread. i took one look and thought 'that looks familiar'. a gentleman in tassie i bought some parts from on ebay last year sent me a pic of his rangie which he had recently sold. snap.
here's the pic for tim because i don't seem to be able to attach it to a p.m.

Thats unbvelievable, he will be surprised to see that! Its changed quite a fair bit now, as in add ons etc. The AULRO world is a small place

Originally Posted by pomonastik

my only mods have been to remove the driver's side seat height spacers (i'm 6'5"),

I am 6'4" and did the same thing . I also had a windscreen fitted that had no tinted band at the top.