Category: Range Rovers

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Windshield for the Range Rover Classic Overland Rig (Post #748) 10/25/2026

Windshield, windscreen… whatever you call it it keeps the bugs out of your teeth.

I ordered a windshield from Rovers North. First thing, don’t expect this to arrive quickly. The glass is made in Türkiye (Turkey) by Doraglass.

Doraglass picture.

It is then sent to AllMakes4x4 and from there it is sent to Rovers North.

Somewhere in there Rovers North puts a ProLine label on it too.

Not sure where “Made in China (CN)” comes into play since the glass is made in Türkiye.

Anyway, the glass (spoiler alert) arrived broken.

Yeah… that’s disappointing. Now before you say, “Just install it like that.” I hired a professional installer and he said it would spider and windup being worse than what I have. Looking online supports this assertion. The corner has a lot of pressure on it. I’m wondering if since the windshield is in a rubber seal if that is slightly different.

I also asked, “Why don’t we just fill all the cracks with windshield glue stuff?” He was not confident in that solution either.

I contacted Rovers North and told them what happened. Erik was quick to ask for pictures and to provide a refund. Which I have already received. Erik was great through this whole process. My original shipping location did not workout and he was quick to get the delivery back to the depot where I picked it up.

If you don’t have a commercial site, with a forklift, and a dock that an average over the road trucker can get a 40 foot trailer in… just have them leave it at the shipping depot. Delivery to a commercial site is $185(US) cheaper to ship to. My delivery was 111 pounds (50.3488 kilograms). This is a crate and the glass. Since it is over 100 pounds, the driver will not assist with the unloading. Another pro tip, make sure you understand the shipping insurance and who pays what if the windshield arrives broken. Rovers North took care of me, I don’t know if any other vendor would be as good.

There are lots of questions.

Will JayZ’s Superbowl 60 Half-time show suck? I have no idea, I don’t think I’ve ever intentionally listened to a JayZ song.

What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow? African or European?

Why order from Rovers North? They had one listed. Atlantic British did not. I had two professionals look for the windshield. Scott looked in warehouses in Dallas, Kansas City, Wichita, and another city in Texas he couldn’t remember. They aren’t sitting on the shelves of any glass warehouses in my region.

Would you order another windshield? Yes, but, the other windshields I saw online started at $1200(US) plus shipping. I only spent $795(US) with Rovers North.

What are you doing next? Scott is going to come back out and polish my OEM windshield. This windshield has 280,000 miles of rocks, sand, giant grasshoppers, 300 million mosquitos, at least two birds, and who knows what else. So yeah, it looks like someone sandblasted it. I don’t have much hope for the polish, but I’m going to see if it helps.

Like and subscribe, and I hope you enjoy the video.

Did you get the movie reference on the video thumbnail?

Thanks for reading and Happy Rovering.

https://youtu.be/Vp7v-QWQlHE

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Car Company Bicycles (Post #271) 10/21/2011

I was looking at some car related bicycle pr0n today on Yahoo and ran across this picture, among others, and thought, “That is pretty cool.”

I am sure I cannot afford a new Range Rover, MSRP 79,685 – 95,465$(US) and I’m pretty sure I couldn’t afford a bicycle branded the same, 795 pounds (1257$(US)). Surprisingly that is not all that expensive for a really high quality bicycle, if it is a quality bicycle. I wonder if there are any on eBay….or Craigslist…..

Land Rover has a website just for their bikes. Enjoy.

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Pain in the ass (Post #254) 3/31/2011

Pain in the ass
A fed-up motorist towed his 200,000 GBP Range Rover to his garage by donkey power after claiming the dealers had made an ass of him.

I’m wondering if any one in that country is “factory trained”? 
Four times the cost of Europe? That’s insane. 
Free trade? Not much.
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1991 and 1993 Range Rover Classics SWBs Available (Post #249) 2/21/2011

My good friend Mike and Rogers have two Range Rovers they are trying to part with. Each of them have bad transmissions. There is a 1991 SWB (Black) and a 1993 SWB (I remember it being white). They are located in Oklahoma City.

They want just $1500 for the pair. Yes THE PAIR! Engines are good and were running right up to the point where the transmissions quit.

Each of these guys are Jaguar men and Mike builds Bobbed M35’s on the side. They have these Range Rovers and are not willing to put in the time or effort to keep them on the street. Each of them were formerly vehicles their adult kids drove. Neither are in the position to dump the money in to keep these Classics on the road.

If you are interested, send him an email at mike w at crtonline dot com.

I am working on getting pictures.

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My Farm Girl is Wearing a Prom Dress (Post #200) 9/2/2010

Check out these videos. Those guys are wearing suits! That fellow there is wearing a sweater and tie AND operating a open belt PTO driven table saw! That’s just Crazy-Awesome. If this feature was available on today’s Land Rovers I can assure you the lawsuits from idiot misuse would fill the bloody Superdome. I’m also guessing that poor lady’s Jaguar or MG was in the shop when her husband suggested she do the daily shopping in the Series 1.

And part 2…

What was that in the 36th second of the first video? “the strong aluminum body… no corrosion, no rust in the corners, no laying up for painting.”

Later the narrator says, “The most reliable vehicle in the world.” Perhaps the Series 1 Land Rover was all of this. The Range Rover Classic? I’d say not so much.

Land Rover engineers need to hear the narrator’s words again. Perhaps these videos should be required viewing.

Having watched these videos and after re-reading “The Range Rover Story” on Ovalnews.com a question comes to mind.

Am I asking too much of my Range Rover LWB?

It’s a fair question. Am I asking a beauty queen to be a farm girl? I realize that I am restoring a RANGE ROVER and not a Defender or Series truck. If you listen to the narrator, Land Rover was once careful about construction. When did they drop the ball?

I highly recommend you read, “The Range Rover Story” you can get the complete story of how a utilitarian work vehicle became the Best 4x4xFar. You can see the direction of the company begin to snowball into maintaining its high end SUV reputation. If you’ve read it, read it again.

The Range Rover was designed to be a higher end vehicle from the beginning. How much higher than the utilitarian run-about, has been a creeping mission statement coming up on fifty years. Wearing the name “Rolls-Royce of Off-Roaders” would probably dictate something perhaps no longer indented to be utilitarian. About the time I was promoted to Lance Corporal in the USMCR, circa 1983 according to the article the “hose it out interior” was replaced with lush carpet. This perhaps is the defining moment when our farm girl started wearing make-up and stopped wearing her boots.

I would never imagine anyone taking today’s Evoque and making it a serious off-road or even driving it on a lovely greenlining tour of Uncle Billy’s sheep farm. Sure there’s a possibility that someone would do it as a stunt, but there is no way anyone would seriously expect an Evoque to be used as a trail vehicle.

Look at it. It’s a CAR for God’s sake. It’s a car wearing the Range Rover name. It is available in TWO-WHEEL DRIVE! What.the.hell? Is the marketing department so inept that they couldn’t launch a new vehicle line with a new name? Is the mother company so afraid of leaving the Range Rover name that they have in fact created a separate brand?

Here is a partial list of the models of Range Rovers taken from RangeRovers.net and Wikipedia. It’s not a complete list nor does it cover any the Special Vehicles modifications. This list spans the three generations of Range Rovers.

Vogue
Hunter
County
County LSE
County LWB
County Sport
Great Divide Edition
Desert Storm Edition (only one made)
25th Anniversary Model
Brooklands/TWR
4.0 SE
4.0 SE Panther Edition
4.0 SE Polo Edition
4.6 HSE
4.6 HSE Panther Edition
4.6 HSE Vitesse Edition
4.6 HSE Kensington Edition
4.6 SSE Edition (by Cameron Concepts)
TReK Edition
50th Anniversary Edition
4.6 HSE Callaway Edition
4.6 HSE Autobiography Edition
4.6 HSK
4.6 HSE Linley Edition
4.6 HSE Rhino Edition
4.6 HSE Vitesse Edition
4.6 HSE First Dartmouth Homelink Edition
4.6 HSE Holland & Holland Edition
4.6 HSE Vogue Special Edition
Great Divide Edition
30th Anniversary Edition
Borrego Edition
Westminster Edition
2010 and 2011MY Editions
Range Rover Sport
Range Rover Evoque

Yeah, I had no idea it was so many. I didn’t even list the accessory packages that were available on various models. What do we see here? Do you notice that variety of editions are very important? Owners don’t want the same Range Rover their neighbor drives. People who buy Range Rovers are obviously in the upper income bracket. The average annual income of someone buying a 1992 Range Rover was now at $400,000(US) a year. In 1993 my yearly gross income was $31,000 and we did pretty good on that.

In 1993 a Range Rover SWB’s base price was $45,125, add $4,700 for the LWB (worth every penny I promise). I bought my first house in 1990. It was a small three bedroom home in a good neighborhood. We laid out $29,000 for it.

I bought my 1993 Range Rover LWB for $15,000 in June of 2000. At the time I was looking for a Jeep CJ or even a Wrangler. I wanted one for its utilitarianism. I thought it fit my personality. After describing what, “I wanted to use it for” to Charlie Blankenship of Sports and Classics he said a Range Rover would be much more comfortable. He was right. So at that time I had bought a comfortable utilitarian vehicle.

So back to the question at hand, am I asking too much for my Range Rover to be able to deliver me down the highways and logging roads and gentle green lanes of America without my feet stepping through the rusted out floor boards? I don’t think so and maybe neither do you. I guess the question will be answered by the Range Rovers of today when in 10 years we are reading about how some owner’s supermodel wife punctured her 4 inch high heel through the floor pan of her Evoque in downtown New York City.

Thanks for reading and Happy Rovering.

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