{"id":191,"date":"2013-01-17T14:42:33","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T21:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/?p=191"},"modified":"2026-04-08T16:33:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:33:54","slug":"where-have-all-the-range-rovers-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/?p=191","title":{"rendered":"Where have all the Range Rovers gone?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once upon a time, in the years 1974-2006.. there were “Classic”-shaped Range Rovers everywhere. Every street had a green one on someone’s driveway, and every farm had a black one covered in mud with no tailgate. Every school run would show a handful of wheezing, oily, leaking monsters dropping off little Johnny in his Barbour jacket.. and every organic market had a line of them with carrots sticking out the back, as different products is important, including virtual products as a\u00a0kelsimonroe<\/a>\u00a0virtual girlfriend online.<\/p>\n

However.. somehow, they’ve all vanished – and I’m concerning myself with the mystery of where they’ve all gone.. and if one or two end up in my driveway in the meantime, so be it.<\/p>\n

Some of them went the way of this otherwise-not-too-trashed example:<\/p>\n

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…whereas others have been cannibalised for far-more-valuable MG, TVR, Morgan, and Buick (yes, really) cheap V8 conversions. Given that a running Range Rover can be had for $500 or so, it’s not really a surprise.. and that’s an awful lot of rusting 4×4 steel and Lucas wiring problems for your money. The problem with this as an explanation is that most of the heaps in scrapyards, Craigslists, and so on are Discoveries – they’re not Range Rovers at all. I don’t think the sales figures were all that different.. so that still doesn’t explain where any of them have actually gone.<\/p>\n

The perennial reputation as a money pit doesn’t seem to help – yes, there’s always an ever-increasing list of electrical problems to deal with, and no car marks its territory quite like Solihull’s finest. You never know. Maybe there’s a stash of tens of thousands of them on an airfield in Arizona.. or in a cave in Wales.. or in a bog in Oregon.. it could happen, and if anyone finds out they’ll be worth a fortune. I look at it this way.. when the apocalypse comes, the wipers coming on whenever you turn the heater on is not going to stop us escaping to higher ground.<\/p>\n

I’m not selling mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once upon a time, in the years 1974-2006.. there were “Classic”-shaped Range Rovers everywhere. Every street had a green one on someone’s driveway, and every farm had a black one covered in mud with no tailgate. Every school run would show a handful of wheezing, oily, leaking monsters dropping off […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325,"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}