wanted defender

Not for a grand your not. Your looking at least 4-5

Blimey! If you get one for that price in good nick can you get me one!

Richard

Thats classic Range Rover money, not Defender.

I've got a great one for £7-8000...

On the other hand, maybe not ;-)

Good luck!

On or around Fri, 02 Dec 2005 09:10:02 GMT, rads enlightened us thusly:

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 uttered summat worrerz funny about:

I'd hazard a guess that the OP meant this kind of thing and fell in to the "It's got to be called a defender" which is slightly less of a sin than asking for a j**p in the same posting.

:-)

Lee D

"andrew and claire" wrote

I paid £1200 for my 90 (looks like a Defender) van a couple of years ago with 47,000 genuine miles on the clock and it needed/still needs a bit of work so you would be looking at something old.

Ah! I know, how about a S111 van? :-)

On or around Fri, 2 Dec 2005 23:39:34 -0000, "Bob Hobden" enlightened us thusly:

wrong year, though, you need a 72 or earlier...