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[The Roadie]

Defo
My dad runs a 30 year old Range Rover, original 2 door, but its no classic - its a working vehicle that earns its keep at the garage and towing our boat.
Its got no straight panels, its got Disco wheels, a WARN winch for pulling scrappers and our boat onto trailers, and the tinworm tries to consume it every winter - now even the headlamps are rusty.
Its got an old Perkins 4203 3.3litre atmo diesel, with a tarmac shredding 63bhp (but it has more torque than a railway shunter). Also its bloodey slow, top speed 78 mph on GPS as the speedo doesn't work.
You can't beat them though. The Rangie needs a few jobs doing on it but it just keeps chugging on, doing its job. Still love it though, especially when it pulls 3.5 tons of boat and trailer up a 1:8 hill on the A55 coming back from Wales, revving its head off, heater on full blast so it doesn't boil but eventually it beats the hill and its never let us down.

[Purple Tom]

Perkins engines are like the new Gardner - pretty much bombproof - you gotta love em!

[hammoj28]

The old Range Rovers are way better than the new ones. My Dad used to have a 1988 Range Rover vogue (think it was a 3.9v8), wish we still had it. It never missed a beat.

[jeffberg]

the series II disco also is longer in than the series I
not cool