Surely, this way lies madness

"Master Cylinder" (mastercylinder28) 12/18/2015 at 16:28 • Filed to: None

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But think of the stories you’ll be able to tell in your stay at the “long-term rehabilitative mental care facility” of trying to DD your $500 Land Rover.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Master Cylinder 12/18/2015 at 16:31

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Excuse me while I cough up a lung laughing at “4-cylinder”. Probably more true than he knows.

HammerheadFistpunch > Master Cylinder 12/18/2015 at 16:35

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at least it has good transfer...

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 12/18/2015 at 16:38

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Came to say this exactly

RallyWrench > Master Cylinder 12/18/2015 at 16:45

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If by madness you mean salvation and the Light, then yes. That way lies madness. This seem like a Top Gear challenge kind of vehicle.

Master Cylinder > RallyWrench 12/18/2015 at 16:58

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This does seem like pretty much exactly the kind of junk heap they’d have picked on Top Gear. I wonder what the final tally would be to buy it and get it just barely road worthy...

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > RallyWrench 12/18/2015 at 17:03

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I will actually be obtaining a $500 RRC shortly. For burgling parts to use on a Series because it has a cracked block, of course. A while back there was an $800 Disco with “blown head gaskets” at the local junk/towing place. Enough people with electrical and engine nightmare out there that somebody sufficiently perverse can get a lot for the money.

WiscoProud > Master Cylinder 12/18/2015 at 17:12

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If I had the space I would consider giving it a crack, $500 is probably what you'd get for scrap, not to mention just piecing it out. Best case, I could get it running and have a low cost Discovery

RallyWrench > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 12/18/2015 at 17:22

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I searched for them for Tim of Overland awhile back, and drew the same conclusion. Many seem awfully cheap because people are scared of them.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > RallyWrench 12/18/2015 at 17:27

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The process seems to be that one is bought cheap, pops (as inevitably so many do), they took it to the mechanic, and the mechanic NOPEd out or smiled grimly at their checkbook. And yet, the principle of “never spend more on a car than it’s worth” works in your favor, because once these people have ditched their $3k Rangey or Disco I, you can pick it and a parts car up for a grand, get a better than stock in every way engine ready to go for $3-$4k, and have the equivalent of a $7k vehicle for some (pretty straightforward) labor.

leicester > Master Cylinder 12/18/2015 at 17:35

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...or LeMons.