Is this about right?

I have a question about this - https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classi...ponsored&minimum-badge-engine-size=3.5&page=1

Granted it's low mileage and it's had a new chassis but £23K?
I ask because I have a similar one (1983) with more miles (about 115,000) and an original (rot free) chassis but I didn't imagine for a second that it would be worth anything close to this.

Is the seller living in cloud cuckoo land? Am I missing something?

i want it..

but not for 23k

Personally I'd say the seller is a dreamer, it's by no means perfect and not worth 23k of my money. I wouldn't pay anywhere near that for it, some may but not I.

However, I would spend less than half that on a good late TD5.

I'm sure that ad said new chassis, all new bushes and bolts. Maybe in good nick but don't look new to me.

Sod that, I'd want a complete resto for that.

Good, so it's not just me.
Not that I don't want it it be true, if it does sell then I'm sitting on quite a pot of money

They say new chassis? Did they buy 1 from LR then?

Looks good but not 23k good. Bulkhead looks suspect too.

J

Total dreamer, that's certainly not a new chassis, if it's had one it was 15 years ago, all the doors are rotten, bulkhead issues. V8 motor not everyone's cup of tea, thats a 5k motor not 23k.

Do we have a skewd sense of the value of some of these models?
Yes it's an okd Land Rover with some good and bad aspects but for him to put that value on it, a a trader, must mean something, right?

I had seen a couple of others of similar vintage but shinier and with more miles for about £15-17K, I thought that was a lot until I saw this one.

I was also in conversation with someone from one of the specialists at the Land Rover Legends event that took an interest in my one when I said it was reletively genuine and still had the 'county' stickers down the side.

I just wonder if there's something in it and we're looking at it from the owners and carers point of view, rather than some of these perhaps rose tinted views non owners have

marjon said:

They say new chassis? Did they buy 1 from LR then?

Looks good but not 23k good. Bulkhead looks suspect too.

J

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Read the gumph, it said new genuine LR chassis from a snatch LR, even listed a part number.

It's priced and ripe for US export at that age.

Fenders are getting stupid prices but as above, this is probbably gonna end up in yank hands

goonarmy said:

Fenders are getting stupid prices but as above, this is probbably gonna end up in yank hands

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And they pay that? They do know what they're getting, right?

parptoot said:

And they pay that? They do know what they're getting, right?

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Have you seen the prices Defenders go for in the states? Ridiculous.

Nope but I'm going to look now. Maybe I'm sitting on a goldmine.

parptoot said:

Nope but I'm going to look now. Maybe I'm sitting on a goldmine.

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If yours has an original V8 in it, yes.

It was built as and still has a V8 in it. Whether it's the original engine number, I don't know. Does that make a difference?

Yes, for US customs it has to be all original numbers.

Is that for legal/import reasons or just the customers demands? I can find out though.

parptoot said:

Is that for legal/import reasons or just the customers demands? I can find out though.

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It's for import reasons. They have a nasty habit of crushing cars that are not numbers matching. For example I can not sell my 1989 Ninety, because I have fitted a Disco 200tdi engine into it.

parptoot said:

Is that for legal/import reasons or just the customers demands? I can find out though.

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Only if the customer demands having their vehicle seized and crushed.