Either way, real or not...sad to see it in this shape...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Land...ps=63&clkid=4008643600083028488#ht_500wt_1182
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Land...ps=63&clkid=4008643600083028488#ht_500wt_1182
Disco - Camel Trophy??
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ptschram
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Holy Shit!
I've owned some badly rusted trucks, but I don't think I've ever sen one that bad.
I'd take $100 to tow it away.
I've owned some badly rusted trucks, but I don't think I've ever sen one that bad.
I'd take $100 to tow it away.
I bet you would PT.ptschram said:
Thats what neglect and living out east can do.
Almost as bad as Minnesota
ptschram
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singingcamel said:
Looking at that truck, it looks to me like it needs at least $5000 worth of fab work to repair all the rust, and I'm not sure I'd even be willing to take the job on. OK, maybe $5000 is on the high side, but between the A-pillars, the door arches and the windscreen frame, there's easily $2500 right there, and we know what we're gonna find when we lift the carpets!
It needs major work to the bulkhead that may well mean there isn't enough left to work with.
The sad things-that rust didn't happen overnight and could have been stopped easily enough. IF the owner really was the fist owner since Land Rover, he blew it and now gets to pay the price.
Actually that truck could be "restored" quite nicely on a rust free bodyshell. Transfer all the important stuff over, new paint job, end result is a very valuable D1.
damn I doubt you'd recoup your investment once you worked it back. Sad, the body has some awesome appeal.
ptschram
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crown14 said:
And I could take any of a number of DIs, paint them yellow, hang a winch on it, a roof rack and seat covers and say the same thing, but without a VIN swap, it's not the same truck.
What would you swap over? The roof rack? He admits the bumper and brush bar are toast, other than no sunroofs, it doesn't seem that unique once you strip the stickers off.
Talk about a Ship of Theseus.
It's just another rusty Disco.
Is it just me or does the magazine article he posted show a TREK decal on the door, also some of the other decals didn't seem to match up in the pictures, black stripe on upper part of front fender in magazine picture, not in his pictures.. Just not so sure this is anything other than a rusted XD, a badly rusted one at that.