Why doesn't someone start an anti concours movement so that people like me can exhibit the scruffiest leakisest vehicle that still runs. I quite like the effect of having two doors that don't match the body colour and think I will keep things this way.
I think it is a bit silly buying an old landie and then trying to turn it into something it was never intended to be, better than showroom condition.
That having been said I have invested in some new seats for centre row, as there are limits.
Larry, the majority of us are already in this movement :-)
Well apart from a few die hard enthusiasts who sit counting rivets and restoring their beloved oil-leaker to original condition (or better, these are Land Rovers after all), there would be nothing to judge just how 'un-concours' we are - so full marques to those who 'do', and nuf respect to those of us who 'do not'. Live and let leak, I say...
TRAITOR! - it's the first step on the slippery slope you know... :-)
Martyn
Strangely enough, I (or my Range Rover at least) won the "Best Land Rover" section at a classic car show a couple of years ago. I'd driven it back from a challenge competition (one of the Optima Challenge series IIRC) and it was still covered in half a peat bog. It was pitted against a selection of very shiney vehicles including an immaculately restored Series II, a 90 with every bolt on shiney bit you could think of and an early 3 door freelander that the owner reckoned would be a classic of the future ?!? It won because the judges felt that it was the only one that actually looked like it had been used for the purpose it had been designed for.
The most bizarre bit came later though - as a "class winner" it was included in the line up for "car of the show". Imagine the scene, a range of concours classics, most of which only a real car buff would recognise, each gleaming in the sunshine and with judges pouring over them looking for the slightest discrepancy from the original... at the far end of the lineup a battle scarred green Range Rover covered in mud. The commentator was lost for words :-) I didn't win though :-(
cheers
Dave W.
Shame, you should have won it for the 'real' originality.
There's an old story, probably a myth, about a line-up at Billing or somesuch of concours vehicles - at the end of which was a slightly battered AA Landie. As the commentator moved along, giving details of each vehicle, the driver of said AA Landie started to look a little sheepish, albeit in a badly fitting AA uniform...
The commentator eventually arrived at the end of the line-up and remarked at the original condition of the vehicle and offered full marks for also having a (badly fitting) uniform to add to the authenticity.
"Oh" said the driver, "Thank you very much. I am actually here to try and start a members car. Somebody just waved me in and...".
(Or similar...) As I say, probably a myth, but a rather nice one :-)
Martyn
We'll join. All of ours leak somewhere, could do with a could clean and polish, have flaky paint in several areas, the odd bits of rust and some rather large areas of rust(RR, lower tailgate), bits that don't work or vibrate loose or fall off completely, but they all still go, although I think the Disco will be getting itself a new engine before long.
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