LandRovers, How did you Start and when?

[Maggot4x4]

So when did you get your first landrover? What was it? Were you bitten by the bug straight away or did it take some time?

For me it was an '83 Rangie bought in 2000 that started me off.

[Ken]

My addiction started in 93
Series 2 1959
Fully Rebuilt
From the front indicators to the brakelights
Shouldnt have ever sold it

[tombraider]

July 1999 - New Freelander 3 door (Wife thought it was cute)

August 1999 - 5000km service, Freelander drives in 1995 V8 Discovery drives out

August 2001 - Defender Tombraider Edition joins the fold...

January 2006 - 1972 Rangie Joins the yard awaiting "mods"

[101RRS]

I was 22 and into trail bike riding - generally by myself. After some near misses coming off my bike out in the bush, without help, I decided a 4wd might be a bit safer. I saw a series 1 advertised in the paper for $600 and rode my bike over to have a look at it - bought it on the spot - put the bike in the back and then on the way home managed to get it bogged on the side of the road. An old patrol stopped to help but couldn't pull me out and I had to pay $50 for a tow truck to come and get me.

I painted it air traffic control yellow and put go fast black GT stripes on the side - I loved that car - was my sole means of transport but I still went everywhere in it. Sold it about 6 years later for $1500 and the car was often seen driving around in the northern suburbs of Sydney.

30 years later - I want another series 1 so if anyone knows a good one for less than $4k let me know.

Gazzz

[CraigE]

Sept 1997 New Tdi 300 Disco bought - went in to buy a Nissan and came home with a Disco - Inept Nissan sales staff - arrogant - Land Rover dealer an absolute pleasure to deal with. Trade due to tax implications on V8 Commodore wagon.

2001 1984 Rangie _ My Dad has now.

2004 2000 model TD5 Defender Extrem - Current.

Really wish I had kept my Disco, but still loved the rangie and still the Defender.

Inkling started with a friends Series 2 shorty in 1983 and brother in laws series 2 shorty 1991.

[Graeme]

1983 - 1976 RR replaced out-grown, worn-out 78 Subaru 4WD wagon.

[weeds]

I used to always bag my father in-laws two door rangie and thought a 45 series cruiser trayback was the ducks guts..............until I drove it for the first time on the family macadamia farm full to the roof with bags of nuts that we had just picked up, to my surprise it did it with ease, when nobody was around I tried it with my cruiser and she struggled

A few years later when our first boy was born they offer it to us, I could say yes quick enough..toyoya what toyota

She was pretty rough and run down so after five years I upgraded to the defender

[easo]

grew up with the old girl and vowed to get 1 as soon as I could afford one.
And in 2003 Sallyanne arived. See link for pics of both.
This is the old girl when I was younger.

This is the old girl with Sally Anne a few weeks ago


Cheers easo

[Reads90]

mm well when i was born my mum had a s2 88"
and then my dad had one of the first 110' and then many after that. Bit of a family thing

But the first i bought was in 1988 (was a S3 88" Diesel) , When i was 16 . It was my first car and have had a land rover ever since
This was my first landy

[SS_110]

fell in love with a BJ Landcruiser when the midnight oil clips reached Europe.
Must have been the age of 13 then.

BJ love turned into Landrover love and got my first RRC 3.5V8 in '89
next there was a 3.9V8i.
Because my other rigs where oldtimers I sold the RRC and bought a Series3 StaWa with safari roof and 2.25diesel.
This one was swapped after a couple of years for a D90 2.5atmo which I sold with 395.000km on the clock(and is still someones daily driver today).
I should not forget a D1 200Tdi which I bought for an Moroccan expedition couple of years ago.

The a D90 300TDI did the job for a while but could be swapped for the 110TD5 DCPU 1.5years ago.and the 110HCPU V8 just recently joined the fleet

Here some pics of the old rigs

the 300TDI


the 90 2.5 atmo somewhere in the Spanish pyrinees


the S3 StaWa


and the DCPU in the Romenian snow