Random Cars I Found

"liquid_popcorn" (liquid-popcorn) 10/25/2013 at 07:52 • Filed to: found around town

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This Land Rover is near my office; it hasn't moved in almost three years since I started working here, and probably not for a long time before.

Parking lot at home depot.

Something interesting I passed on my own road. Sorry the photo's shit, I was looking at the road and not the camera.

505Turbeaux > liquid_popcorn 10/25/2013 at 07:59

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frame is soft - right...about...there. Love me a 109 in the morning though. Virginia?

Der Käfer > liquid_popcorn 10/25/2013 at 08:05

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I just traded my 2001 Land Rover Discovery II on a 2012 CPO Volkswagen... Beetle with Nav & Sound package.. The amount of money I've saved in just one month is making it more and more worth it.

Der Käfer > liquid_popcorn 10/25/2013 at 08:10

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I also live in Virginia Beach where a Land Rover makes me look like a rich soccer mom or an ocean front realator....

liquid_popcorn > 505Turbeaux 10/25/2013 at 08:21

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Yep. Northern VA, near Leesburg.

Also, when I first started the job here I left a note asking if they wanted to get rid of it; they never answered. :(

liquid_popcorn > Der Käfer 10/25/2013 at 08:22

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Out of curiosity, why a Beetle, as opposed to a Golf or Jetta?

Der Käfer > liquid_popcorn 10/25/2013 at 08:39

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Since I could walk I've been a VW lover... my family bought new an MK3 GTI blue on blue/black plaid with the golf ball shifter, it was love at first sight! I wanted navigation for work and the fender sound sytem because bass , I knew my next car would be a vw and after visiting 3 dealers.. I could not find a GTI with those 2 options in my budget. The jetta doesn't feel very "Volkswagen" to me. I wasn't even looking at the beetle until my sales guy asked if I'd be interested in one.. test drove it, fell in love and the next thing I know.. I'm the proud owner of a bug.

Der Käfer > liquid_popcorn 10/25/2013 at 08:44

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This is exactly what it looks like.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Der Käfer 10/25/2013 at 09:13

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One does not really go "Saving money" where a Series III is concerned, though. It's generally quite reliable for a Brit and parts are as cheap or cheaper than contemporaries unless something there isn't aftermarket for. A Disco II, I could see bankrupting someone.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > 505Turbeaux 10/25/2013 at 09:15

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Very possibly a frame candidate. That being said, it could just be the doors, as I've seen both.

A Series III interior gets dilapidated in ways a IIa can't dream of with all its vinyl, though, so it's possible it just got so fugly inside the guy didn't like it anymore.

505Turbeaux > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 10/25/2013 at 09:19

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oh yeah those doors are never aligned that well. I have never done a 109 frame, do they make a galvy frame a la 88. I remember that being significantly harder to find. S3 interiors are for the birds, agreed. My IIa 88 was worn, but whole.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > liquid_popcorn 10/25/2013 at 09:19

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Your "flying by in a blur" may be an early 30's Chevy, but I can't say that with great confidence.

Not all early 30's Chevys have those chrome hood strakes, so that's not a deciding factor either way.

That Series III is in need of some TLC, to be sure, and probably a new interior. Maybe a frame as well. The ARB bar suggests at least some money was thrown at it in the past, though, so I'd reckon ordinary door hang fail may be the cause. Also: you forgot #RamblinBait.

Der Käfer > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 10/25/2013 at 09:23

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I bought it with just under 80k Miles, knock sensors died, needed all new brake lines and coolant lines and hoses, leaking rear sunroof, replaced the ECU that died less than 2 weeks after install, window regulators, I got the dreaded 3 amigos o2 sensors, ABS module... that's just off the top of my head. I ended putting more money in repairs than what I bought it for so as much as I loved her... I had to let her go.

R.I.P. Betty (Chawton) White.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > 505Turbeaux 10/25/2013 at 09:25

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They do make a galvey frame now and again, but I'm going to be repairing my brother's probably with a rear half of a pickup frame and some new steel. Very expensive to swap a whole frame, but we did it for my cousin's '64 IIa 88 here recently - we'd used up our two spares for mine and one of my brothers'.

Yes, we had two whole 88 frames as spares and the rear half of a pickup frame. From South Korea. Long story.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Der Käfer 10/25/2013 at 09:29

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All that would be why I'm sticking a Rover V-8 with simplified EFI in a much simpler old Ford, and keep my Rovers to 60's Series IIa. :)

Discos are capable, but Mein Gott are they fiddly. Normally a Series goes sitting just when the owner has either

a: destroyed the frame driving on salty roads

b: just gotten generally tired of it.

505Turbeaux > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 10/25/2013 at 09:33

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that sounds like a lot of story there! I so want another IIa but it will be some years before I finish up all the lingering projects.

Der Käfer > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 10/25/2013 at 09:35

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I'm thinkng about buying a classic range rover without any extra bits or electrics.

My family currently owns a 2005 Mercedes c230 Kompressor, a 2010 Land Rover LR4, my 2012 VW beetle, a 2012 Nissan titan and my old gal a 1998 Ford Expedition Eddie Bauer with almost 200k miles on the original transmission and engine!

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Der Käfer 10/25/2013 at 09:47

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The only trick with RRCs is that they can be rusted beyond the ability to repair easily. Aluminum exterior body, but enough thin steel underneath that abuse can ruin them. I stripped a newer RRC ('95) out of White Plains NY that had holes through the fenders, floorboards, and other locations, completely ruined. It actually get parked, though, because it lost 1st in the trans...

liquid_popcorn > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 10/25/2013 at 10:03

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Haha, my bad. I knew you'd find it eventually anyway.

There's also a horseshoe riveted to the front, which looks a little odd.

liquid_popcorn > Der Käfer 10/25/2013 at 10:05

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Cool.

I've not driven a Beetle of any generation, although I'm curious. I drive a MKVI GTI, and love it. No sound system or nav, though.

The only Jetta I really am curious about is an old VR6 or the GLI, which looks kind of interesting.

I'll have to drive a Beetle next time I go back to the dealer and see how it feels.

Der Käfer > liquid_popcorn 10/25/2013 at 13:13

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I love the old jetta TREK editions and of course the mk4 GLIs with the BBS rims.

Yea man, drive a beetle, looks and feels very vw.

Der Käfer > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 10/25/2013 at 13:15

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I've heard and seen horror stories but I would LOVE a LWB classic in that green or red

liquid_popcorn > Der Käfer 10/25/2013 at 14:53

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Mmmm, yes.

I actually found a MkI or MkII VW Rabbit, 4speed manual, diesel, in baby blue on Craigslist the other day. About pissed myself in excitement.

It sold almost immediately; I've seen it on the road twice since in town, accelerating hilariously slow.

I definitely will. Is yours a manual or auto?

Der Käfer > liquid_popcorn 10/28/2013 at 07:41

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6 speed auto, wanted a turbo man but that was no where to be found used.

liquid_popcorn > Der Käfer 10/29/2013 at 18:08

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Ah, too bad. How's the auto in those, then?

Der Käfer > liquid_popcorn 10/30/2013 at 08:47

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Just a conventional 6 speed. smooth, efficient.