By gil on Wednesday, August 22, 2001 - 11:29 am: Edit

anyone else seen this masterpiece? whos going to be the first discoweber to slap their beloved Disco on the chopping block?

By Blue Gill (Bluegill) on Wednesday, August 22, 2001 - 11:37 am: Edit

I think we were talking about shaving the frame horns down a bit, not the whole damn body! That is pretty cool, looks like it was a 3-door to begin with. Not much in the way of cargo room anymore, unless you delete the rear seats, which would also be cool...where did you come across this?

By Ho Chung (Ho) on Wednesday, August 22, 2001 - 11:44 am: Edit

ouch!

By gil on Wednesday, August 22, 2001 - 11:46 am: Edit

i found it on difflock.com, a touch ugly, but man talk about departure angle.

By John on Wednesday, August 22, 2001 - 11:47 am: Edit

cargo area is now the gas tank area....damn, and no ass end to protect the tank...damn...hehehe, Kyles gottaa love it...

By gil on Wednesday, August 22, 2001 - 11:50 am: Edit

its actaully built on a Rangie Classic frame, heres another interesting monstrosity:

By gil on Wednesday, August 22, 2001 - 11:51 am: Edit

is it a range rover? a disco? its actually a stretched 7 seat rangie with a disco roof (also stretched) why? maybe thats a better question

By Ho Chung (Ho) on Wednesday, August 22, 2001 - 11:54 am: Edit

By Ron on Wednesday, August 22, 2001 - 11:56 am: Edit

Have you all seen steven shuback's (man I know I spelled that wrong) bob tailed RR. That thing is nice.

Ron

By gil on Wednesday, August 22, 2001 - 11:58 am: Edit

apparently bobtailed rangies are somewhat common across the pond, the only bobtailed rigs ive seen here are toyota pickups...

By RVR OVR (Tom) on Wednesday, August 22, 2001 - 12:08 pm: Edit

Ho - you spent way too much time grabbing faces from that jeeper board! Now your short messages will be really short!

tom

By Moe on Wednesday, August 22, 2001 - 12:22 pm: Edit

But the faces say it all. I think SmokinHo is the best

By Blue Gill (Bluegill) on Wednesday, August 22, 2001 - 12:24 pm: Edit

hey, that jeeper board is good for some laughs. We need a photogallery section on this board called "Official Recovery Vehicle" with pictures of all our recoveries!

By Steve (Steve2) on Wednesday, August 22, 2001 - 12:26 pm: Edit

is it me or does the bobtail have a freelander esque look to it? and as far as the disrangery that is weird! - but don't laugh as we might actually get a lwb of the new rangie model!s

steve

By Moe on Wednesday, August 22, 2001 - 12:37 pm: Edit

Sources say the Freelander design was inspired by the bobtail Disco. I've always thought a RR tray back would be the way to go if want to butcher a LR

By pk on Wednesday, August 22, 2001 - 12:37 pm: Edit

Wow!

By Craig on Wednesday, August 22, 2001 - 01:48 pm: Edit

getting done to my classic right now. It'll be ready for OTR moad 01. 18" cut and shut. biggest obstacle has been the fuel tank/delivery system. I bought a d90 tank/pump/sender etc... to fit in factory location. Damn, I can't wait!
Craig
LRDE parts

By Craig on Wednesday, August 22, 2001 - 01:52 pm: Edit

sorry-
still can't type.
moaB
Craig

By chu son on Wednesday, August 22, 2001 - 02:07 pm: Edit

Craig,

when do you think you're gonna get this bad boy back? I'd like to come by and see what it looks like. I thought you just got some 35s put on it.


chu

By Craig on Wednesday, August 22, 2001 - 02:22 pm: Edit

Chu--
should be done first week of September. We are making room for 35 or 36's at the same time. sitting on 33x12.5x15 right now.
Craig

By Jose A Cabrera (Jcabrera) on Wednesday, August 22, 2001 - 04:53 pm: Edit

Can anyone tell what kind and size the tires on that Disco (the first picture) are? I think those would look good on my 96 SE

By Norm Orschnorschki (Norm) on Wednesday, August 22, 2001 - 05:28 pm: Edit

The stretch RR w/ the Disco roof looks good -- I've always liked the round headlights, grill and hood of the RR classic.

Is it possible to mount the RR hood and grill/headlight assy. on a Disco I?

---Norm

By Chris Browne on Wednesday, August 22, 2001 - 10:19 pm: Edit

That chopped Disco is actually sitting on another vehicles chassis - the J plate is 1970/1 vintage.
Adding Rangie nose isn't that difficult given that the Discovery uses rangie inner frame, but the fender to door bit doesn't quite look right take a close look at the next classic you see

By gil on Thursday, August 23, 2001 - 02:32 am: Edit

i saw a disco fitted with a rangie front clip in the UK, it was on the street, so i couldnt ask anyone about it. it looked very clean but who knows how much custom work was needed to be done. the bobtail is sitting on an old range rover chassis, theres an article on it @ www.difflock.com