On or around Fri, 02 Dec 2005 09:10:02 GMT, rads
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[email protected]> enlightened us
thusly:
>On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 22:43:24 +0000 (UTC), "andrew and claire"
><nospamandrewclaire,murray@btopenworld.,com> wrote:
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>>wanted , good solid defender station wagon , for back and forth work 6 miles
>>and for fun
>>
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>>max price 1000
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>Thats classic Range Rover money, not Defender.
and a half-shagged one at that.
decent defenders, especially 110 CSW, hold their value like few other
vehicles.
Unless you specially want one, then discos are the best bet for
bang-for-buck in the medium-age secondhand market at the moment. V8 RRCs
are cheap if old, but you need to be converting 'em and you need the
mechanical know-how to keep 'em on the road, really.
D90s are more likely to be cheap, especially truck cabs or vans, and
non-TDI.
There's a good deal of merit though in looking for a decent tax-exempt
series IIA or III... very easy motors to work on and if you're not doing
huge mileage you can live with the 15-20 mpg thirst for petrol. series
diesels are a slow as a slow thing, unless they've had a heart transplant
for a more modern lump such as the 2.5 non-turbo or maybe the perkins prima
turbo.
2.1/4 petrol SWB makes a nice runabout though and is fast enough not to be
embarrassing in modern traffic.
--
Austin Shackles.
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"Quos deus vult perdere, prius dementat" Euripedes, quoted in
Boswell's "Johnson".