My Range Rover Vogue SE

Lovely to see one in daily duties. Don't see many about now a days

Cheers And of course!







Thank you. She mainly gets used at weekends but does everything I need of her. This weekend we had the full spectrum of duties: Carried 9 wheels and tyres across the county, blasted up the motorway to London for a day out, went swimming through some fords to a nice picnic spot and then the back made a nice place to sit and chill.

Here she is carrying stuff:






Cheers, I'm really glad I bought her when I did as there are some crazy prices being achieved now.
Still a few bargains around if you spend some time looking though.

Its been a little while since I last posted on this thread but the Range Rover is still going strong. The worst thing that's happened so far was a sunroof switch packing up and (yesterday) the drivers window fell half way down.

It has taken us on holiday around Devon and Cornwall and many other great trips.




It has been the only one of the cars the be kept taxed throughout the whole year and it's definitely the dogs favourite of the cars too.



And tonight she is being used to over see a pretty big firework display

Haven't used this for a few years now. It has run faultlessly but needs welding in the usual places.

I have collected all the required bits of metal from YRM who have a good reputation in the Land Rover World.

Along with a brand new old-stock petrol tank to go in it.

At the moment I'm not sure whether to crack on with it or sell it as is. I don't know if I've got another restoration in me currently. Problem is that when I started her up after sitting for so long I immediately remembered one of the reasons I love this car - such a good noise!

Even after sitting for so long she ran and drove perfectly. I gave her a good clean up and took some pictures so that I can do an advert - just need to convince myself that's the right thing to do now.

I sold my Range Rover classic when they were still cheap, with the grand idea of either buying it back one day or buying a running project that I could do up over time. Here I am almost ten years later, still intending to buy a halfway decent classic to tidy up but finding prices have risen steeply and are staying on that trajectory!

I regret selling my classic and it wasn't anywhere near as smart as yours!

I think it would be a shame to part with a car that you have a decent bit of history with.

After I posted the other day a bit of good luck happened. Possibly even fate.

Having explained to the missus that I was feeling sad about the prospect of selling her she happened to mention that an old friend of hers had recently decided to start out on his own as an automotive welder. She put me in contact with him and he popped over two days later.

We had a good chat and I explained that if I was going to commit to this it needed to be done properly with all the bad bits completely removed and replaced with fresh metal. In total it works out to a week and a bit’s worth of work. He gave me a figure I was happy with and will be collecting it this week.

He’ll also be pulling the interior out so that I can swap the motors in the seats over to the new interior I have waiting to go in.

Crazy really how this things sometimes happen. Two years of it sitting waiting for something and the week I decide to sell it all starts moving quite quickly!

Simple??? This would make me run for the hills, pull my hair out and I would cry like a baby....Well kinda anyway. But there are some very skilled people here so I'll sit back and will enjoy this revival. 

Worth doing.
My dad used to get pool cars when I was a kid, and he used to work at Solihull. Going from a maxi to a RR was quite an adventure. Also they look better today than they did.