Thread: Hard Rangie - Black Label Edition

Thanks Rick... nor can I.

Need to catch up for a chat sometime and you can tell me about your trip.

BTW: does that Roo Bar on my blue Rangie look familiar?

Cheers, Paul.

Originally Posted by PaulP38a

Thanks Rick... nor can I.

Need to catch up for a chat sometime and you can tell me about your trip.

BTW: does that Roo Bar on my blue Rangie look familiar?

Cheers, Paul.

For sure, trip was great, as you can see by my profile pic I made it across and onto the top of Big Red Highlight was the Rangie getting a certain 100 series out after going down to its diffs

Thought that was the bar on your blue one, looks good!!

Talk soon

Finally! The Black Label Hard Rangie is legal. Good news is that NSW RTA told me it was not actually written off, just de-registered

Passed it's NSW Blue Slip with flying colours, NSW CTP Green Slip, Comprehensive Insurance and NSW Rego all sorted. For now it has a rego plate that looks/sounds like "Black Boxes" (BK 80 XS).

Photo below next to the "Blue Thunder Hard Rangie".



Going up to Bundalene's on Saturday to bring it home and see if it passes the "Wife Acceptance Factor" test. If it does, it will remain a "town car" and I will be selling a lovely 2001 TD4 Freelander. If not, it will become a black version of the blue "Hard Rangie" and the blue one will be sold, with or without all the "hard" bits.

Looking forward to the weekend

Oh yeah, we are picking up another black one on Saturday for spare parts to share between Dave, Martin, Andy and me.

Cheers, Paul.

Ooh now come on thats just showing off......2 P38s!
You must have plenty of spare time to work on the sodding things............... i do too.

A second P38 tricked up a little is almost appealing to me.
White not Black though

Originally Posted by RR P38

A second P38 tricked up a little is almost appealing to me.
White not Black though

A White Hard Rangie is coming to VIC very soon...

HRA Lift kit
33" Simex Jungle Trekker 2's
Tigerz11 12000lb winch on "Junosi style" discreet winch mount
Factory Roof rails, Rhino cage & Hella roof lights
Most of the "plastic fantastic" factory accessories
HRA Snorkel (one day!)
HRA Sliders (another day!)
Ron's Kaymar rear bar/wheel carrier (after ebay auction end day!)

ooops!

The "Black Box" is home but the "Blue Box" is still in Sydney until I figure out what to do with it, or find a way of getting back up there to collect it.

Got pretty good fuel economy coming home, approx 13L/100Km sitting on cruise at approx 110kph. That's better than what I get with the "Blue Box". I expect that to change if/when the "Black Box" gets bigger tyres, diff ratios, front and rear bars etc.

Got a bit of a scare while adjusting the steering column... "SRS Airbag Fault"... which cleared after I stopped for petrol. I can feel a new rotary coupling coming on...

Love the HK sound system. An iPod adapter kit is on it's way from the UK. I kept looking at the stereo expecting to see my 7" touch screen Kenwood/GPS screen... wrong Rangie! Burnt CD's of Sting's live concerts worked a treat in the stacker

Heater works... temp dropped to 0 degC as I turned on to the Sutton Rd, approx 25Km from home.

Off to the car wash in the morning, and then perhaps a bit of a clean up inside and out before SWMBO gets a drive.

Cheers, Paul.

Paul,
You WILL be bringing it to the LRC-ACT meeting on Monday!