It's a Saturday morning in July and I'm casually looking on Facebook Marketplace for early 90s Land Rovers. My specialist recommended that if I want to keep something long term, I might want to consider getting a "new" D1 or something else that doesn't have the structural rust issues that my 300Tdi Disco is starting to show. And A/C. I am dying in these FL summers without A/C. Call me a snowflake, I don't care.
I find a RRC that appears to be sitting in a field in FL and send it to him. "What do you think of this?"
He replies back saying, with all due respect, the seller of that is sketchy at best. "Look, if you're serious about doing something now... I have a rust-free 1992 RRC that I've been planning to build out and flip that a client sold to me a while ago. But I don't have the time for my own stuff. Are you interested?"
Duh?
A couple weeks later, and I'm at his shop, looking at this:
Okay, so it's not 100% rust free, but it's rust free where it counts. The frame is solid, the interior is pretty good but not as clean as my Disco. It's got a 3.9 V8 that's showing its 180k miles, but it's not leaking. I mean, there's oil showing up in the coolant from the oil cooler, but it's not dripping under the car, so that's not technically a leak, right? Right?
Next week, this has happened:
It's home and I'm swapping out all the stuff I keep in the Disco, which has been detailed for its pending sale. Here we go!
The plan is to do a diesel conversion along with changing from the Borg-Warner transfer case to an LT230. I'll keep it automatic, but we'll put a rebuilt transmission in as part of the work as well.
I find a RRC that appears to be sitting in a field in FL and send it to him. "What do you think of this?"
He replies back saying, with all due respect, the seller of that is sketchy at best. "Look, if you're serious about doing something now... I have a rust-free 1992 RRC that I've been planning to build out and flip that a client sold to me a while ago. But I don't have the time for my own stuff. Are you interested?"
Duh?
A couple weeks later, and I'm at his shop, looking at this:
Okay, so it's not 100% rust free, but it's rust free where it counts. The frame is solid, the interior is pretty good but not as clean as my Disco. It's got a 3.9 V8 that's showing its 180k miles, but it's not leaking. I mean, there's oil showing up in the coolant from the oil cooler, but it's not dripping under the car, so that's not technically a leak, right? Right?
Next week, this has happened:
It's home and I'm swapping out all the stuff I keep in the Disco, which has been detailed for its pending sale. Here we go!
The plan is to do a diesel conversion along with changing from the Borg-Warner transfer case to an LT230. I'll keep it automatic, but we'll put a rebuilt transmission in as part of the work as well.
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