Thread: Your Land Rover, why?

if any sane person spent as much on maintaining a vehicle as I have on Grumble one would sell it for the best price and cut their losses wouldn't they? Well.....wouldnt they? My best mate bought a 100 series cruiser at the same time as I bought Grumble, he has done same mileage , it has cost him nothing but regular servicings. Do I care? Nah...Does he understand this? Nah....no one else can understand this but fellow Land Rover owners. Thats Why.

As a kid my uncle had a series11 ute on the farm. Bits falling of it, dints everywhere, full of grass or water, and he parked it on a hill to roll start it. He'd take us for a tour of the farm every time we visited, it was great fun in the back. Continued growing up watching the Leyland Brothers and started to develop a love for the outdoors and travel.
As a 18 year old I was set to do a lap when I finished my apprenticeship. Was eyeing off a Series 3 door as the vehicle, but got talked into a HJ47 Troopie.
Met a girl and did a bit of camping but never got to do the lap. When that all ended so did 4x4's for a while.
Had an instant love affair when the 130 was realised but was not my scene at the time.
Got back into 4x4ing after having a family, looked at a Defender but must have looked at a ratty one. Didn't really appeal so bought a rodeo and tried to make it into a capable car, didn't work. Accidentally killed it on Fraser, good learning curve there.
The wife said to go have a look at the current Defender. Took it for a spin, loved it, and put my money down.
Been paying for it ever since in one way or another. Love the car and have a real kindship with it for nothing more than the reasons above.
It's my work truck and daily driver, it's the families regular weekend camping truck, and it's our long haul tourer annual holidayer.

It was first brought not for the fact that it was a land rover but for the work that had been done to it. I wanted a ute that was not too flash so as I did not need to worry overly about character stripes, but was mechanically sound. So this Landy ticked the boxes. Also after my last 4wd I wanted some thing that was a lot more user friendly with luxury like power steering. Being a neewb to the slightly odd and strange world of land rover onwer ship I did not realise the following these vhicles have and the landy wave. Now that I have owned George for a few years I won`t be selling any time soon.
Cheers Hall

When I was young I never really liked series landys much.(love em now though). My first forby was an FJ 40. Then kids came along and it had no back seats. Whilst owning this vehicle I started to read magazines and I started to take a liking of Range Rovers.

So I purchased one, a ten year old 83 four door. I loved it and the love of LR grew. This combined with the people I have met, joining LROCV and AULRO is what makes LR ownership great.

As the saying goes "Landrover, more than just car"

I like multi purpose vehicles (actually I'm a sucker for anything multi purpose) I've had a couple of wagons which as I'm a bit of a DIYer I've used for hauling fence posts, pailings, doors, stormwater pipe etc.
I decided I wanted a "turbo diesel auto station wagon" and typed it into the interweb and the only cars that came up were european Benz, BMW, Audi, etc and Landrovers. A couple of my mates had D1's and we'd used Landy's in the army, also I'd had a few experiences with cars to know two-wheel drive is really only one wheel drive. I really like my D2 they truly are a vehicle for all seasons (purposes) and can do just about anything.

Because they are.

I didn't know any better.



I still don't know of anything better.

Originally Posted by Stuck

Because they are.

I've always had something a bit different, a couple of rotary engined Mazdas and some other interesting things.

Grew out of the 'speed' phase and always loved the look of the Discoverys. Everyone has a Patrol or a Cruiser but as Clarkson says, they have no soul.

LRs have character and soul in spades and they definitely get under your skin!