Thread: What made you buy you 1st Land Rover

1 - I'd always wanted one!
2 - It would make access to the hills for my climbing easier.
3 - I'd just had a big, head-on car crash where I smashed my face up & wanted to make sure that if it happened again I wanted to be driving something bigger!!!!

M

It was 1962 and I needed a four wheel drive as I was having all sorts of problems with my VW working in the bush. Got an ex-SMA Series 1. The only alternative would have been a WW2 Jeep, and the S1 looked a lot better as a private car.
John

My first hobby was and is anything relating to railways and as such, 9 years ago I decided to get 4x4 so I could get to some out of the way places, to get video of some interesting rail operation.

My first idea was to buy a Jeep, ( shock horror ) until I tried to get in one at a dealers, talk about small.

So then I set about looking at all the KNOWN 4x4s.

A mate I have known since my railway days, owned an older RR and I mentioned to him my interest in buying a 4x4.

He suggested I look at a Discovery, to which I relied “ A what “

I had heard of Land Rover but had neither considered buying a Landy or had ever heard of a Discovery.

My mate also informed me that he does some test driving for one of the 4x4 mags and suggests I should ring an editor friend of his to get some ideas of what's what with the different makes and models of 4x4 on the market at that time.

I didn’t ring his friend but for the next three months, I bought every 4x4 mag I could get.

One of them had just done a comparison test drive of 5 4x4s including a Discovery. The Disco came in a close second behind a Toyota ( surprise, surprise ).

A few weeks after reading the article, I get a phone call from my mate’s editor friend and he introduces himself and asked could he be of any help.

Well after giving him my ideas of what I wanted he tells me that the best 4x4 on the market by a long way, at that time, was the Disco.

Now it was his company’s mag that had proclaimed the Toyota to be the best so I asked him why was the Disco not the winner.

His reply was that there were two reasons. 1, Toyota advertise in his mag and 2, Land Rover ( at that time ) did not ( again, surprise, surprise ).

So I bought a Disco and with one exception, have not regretted it owning Landies.

Cheers

Ever since i was a kid my Dad had them. The my Older sis had a S3 as her first car. Which i bought off her two years later
And it all started from there. and lead to in my time
5 x 90's ,2 x Range Rovers,110,2 x Disco,100 Hybrid,

I needed a vehicle and it was the cheapest I could find!

I fell in love with the S2A FFRs my Sig. Sqdn used. The outcome was predictable.

Years ago, my Dad had a Classic Range Rover two door. Then more recently he had in succession 3 Discoverys and 2 New Range Rovers.
At one point my brother had two door Classic Rangie. He now has an old Series III tray top.

I work at a Land Rover Dealer, so with that family history it makes sense for me to have 2 Classic Rangies, a 73 two door and an 87 Hiline four door.

I grew up appreciating the Land Rover when our family had one on out farm in Mudgee during the late 70's. We had a Series trayback with a Holden red motor - and it never failed us. It always put up with the hard yakka without a single complaint.

Years later I still loved the utilitarian look of the Defender, and along with an alloy body I figured that if I had one, I'd likely be able to keep it for years. So when a mte of mine wanted to sell his (which was kitted to the eyeballs) I didn't hesitate. I'm glad I have it now - it's my favourite out of our four 4WD's by far.