Hi,

I bought a 2001 Disco 2 weekend before last, and posted in the thread a few times. I figured I'd post in here too in the very likely event that nobody remembers me from the years when I owned a 1988 RRC or the few weeks five years ago that I owned a 2000 Disco 2 SE7. After buying a house, I couldn't afford the rather expensive hobby of maintaining a Land Rover, so I sold that green Disco cheap to a farm family who wanted to fix up an old Rover and didn't mind replacing a $1000 cracked windshield or replacing the lifters that were ticking. We bought the Range Rover in 2007 and sold it in 2012, and it is much missed by the entire family. My boy was also bummed when we sold the 2000 Disco after only five or six weeks... but he was delighted that we bought this one. It's in a lot better shape that that 2000 Disco was too.

I've got a history with British sports cars going back to the late Eighties after I got out of the Navy. I bought a 1975 Midget 1500 that I owned for years. I added a Spitfire overdrive tranny to it, put in CarSan bushings, a Weber DCOE 40 carb, a header and custom exhaust, and the widest tires that would fit without custom bodywork. That was a great car, but I had to trade it for a Macintosh to look for a job (yeah, back when a Mac SE was an equal trade for a sports car!). I then got a 1964 Spitfire 4 Mk. 1. It was ratty, but I rebuilt the engine and carbs, redid the suspension, bought a new top, and blasted around in it for a few months before I got a Toyota MR2 Mk. 2, and later a CRX. It was odd having reliable sports cars... just drive them and change the oil... boring. In about 2005 I bought a 1975 Spitfire 1500 that my wife immediately named "the deathtrap." That was an even rattier car, but it got me through the $4.00 per gal. gas crisis and the worldwide financial collapse in 2008 at 30 mpg. Then I had a string of classic Saabs, but we need not mention those here, fun and fast though they may be. Then three years ago I bought a Mini Cooper, which has been fun too... but then its transmission through a ball bearing that popped a hole in the case, so I'm rebuilding it now.

Anyway, it's nice to have a robust British car again. I bought this Disco because our longtime family wagon that we used to tow trailers gave up the ghost. It's been easy to fix a lot of little problems, the "low hanging fruit." The problems yet to be solved are more involved, but I have another thread on that process.

It's nice to be back among like-minded British car fanciers.

Scott