OFFICIAL Land Rover thread.

[LateFan]

Back on track! Pictures!

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[LateFan]

This.
Still gives me the creeps… and that's a pretty decent road..and I think this photo's been tipped...




A place a lot like these…a long way down, and nothing to slow you down..


See that road up at the top?

[quickervicar]

Don't consider any P38 or Disco unless it's in A+ shape or you know exactly what's wrong with it

Really though, if you want a Landy save your money and get a Series or Defender. Even if it needs a lot of work it’ll turn out to be a much more rewarding experience. :)

I understand the advice to stay away from a P38 or D2, but a Defender and a D1 are essentially the same truck with the same capabilities and issues. One just costs 1/50th of the other and is far more comfortable to live with day to day.

[mrsleeve]

Black bear pass CO. ????????

[slammin.e28]

I understand the advice to stay away from a P38 or D2, but a Defender and a D1 are essentially the same truck with the same capabilities and issues. One just costs 1/50th of the other and is far more comfortable to live with day to day.

...and the RRC is even better day to day!

Update here, I found more rust on the body. FAWK.

Going to have to gut it and see what the shell looks like. I see many intimate hours with the plasma cutter/welder in my future.

[LateFan]

I understand the advice to stay away from a P38 or D2, but a Defender and a D1 are essentially the same truck with the same capabilities and issues. One just costs 1/50th of the other and is far more comfortable to live with day to day.

Exactly. My son's '95 D1 is a 100" Defender underneath, essentially. Heavy frame, coil springs, locking center diff, minimal electronics, 3.9 V8 - same engine and injection system as the NAS Defenders, pretty reliable…..not good mileage….

We've beefed it up a bit with Old Man Emu springs and shocks (+2"), tall tires, and taken off all the hanging plastic crap off the bumpers.

Needs a fuel pump right now, but that's pretty normal for any car from 1995 with 175,000 mi.

[LateFan]

Black bear pass CO. ????????

Many places, mostly CO - just images that look a bit like my teenage encounter with nearly bouncing down a mountainside with my Dad in our Bronco. It was on the east side of Independence Pass at about 12,000 feet.

After we got out of there and walked back, we realized there was an ancient drill rig truck at the bottom of the slope 1500 feet down, crushed and rusted. He must have tried that same road many many years earlier.

[evil-diesel]

here's my 2011 Defender 110:

[mrsleeve]

Many places, mostly CO - just images that look a bit like my teenage encounter with nearly bouncing down a mountainside with my Dad in our Bronco. It was on the east side of Independence Pass at about 12,000 feet.

After we got out of there and walked back, we realized there was an ancient drill rig truck at the bottom of the slope 1500 feet down, crushed and rusted. He must have tried that same road many many years earlier.

Black Bear is a F/S road that branches off US550 and runs up to about 12,800 and then switchbacks down into Telluride CO. Its one of the more famous very SCARY jeep trails in the country... One of these days I will go check it out at least not sure if I have the ballz or da skillz to run those switchbacks,

[LateFan]

That's another thing I remember from going with my Dad on those trips - switchbacks! A lot of those old mine roads were not intended for anything except to get a bulldozer up there. There is not a wide spot at the switchback, and you have to go forwards up one direction, then reverse up the next, alternating your way up the mountain.

Or, you try a 15-point turn with your bumper hanging out in the sky, hanging out the door to make sure your tire doesn't go over the edge! YIKE.


Nice ride, Mr Evil! We can't get those.

[slammin.e28]

Black Bear is a F/S road that branches off US550 and runs up to about 12,800 and then switchbacks down into Telluride CO. Its one of the more famous very SCARY jeep trails in the country... One of these days I will go check it out at least not sure if I have the ballz or da skillz to run those switchbacks,

That road looks uhhhh-mazing!

We did the Durango to Silverton RR ride. It was great. They could only go halfway though due to a rock slide over the tracks. So we ended up driving the million dollar highway through Silverton to Montrose, then 50 up to I70.

I recall seeing multitudes of Jeeps on the sides of 550 queuing for trails.

Beautiful country!

[LateFan]

mmm…switchbacks….my favorite….







Couldn't find any pics of the dead end kind where you can't turn.

The best part of switchbacks for me is when you're going downhill and all you see is hood and sky.

[LateFan]

Just get a roll bar.

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