Is This For Real????

[Bertha]

The other day a friend of mine stopped by to see my 71 2a 88" that I am just about finished with. He is not much of a Rover guy, but he is into cars. The next day he calls me up and tells me how my truck must be worth $80k+. I said you are on drugs, I would barely be able to get 1/3 of that if I am lucky. I asked him where he got this ridiculous figure from and low and behold he sends me this link:
http://www.land-roverco.com./vehicle_71softtop.htm

I am in shock. Yes anyone could ask anything they want, but is there really someone out there that will really pay anything near this amount for this truck? How do you spend 30k on a paint job for a Rover? I realize that he is not asking the 80k+ for the blue one pictured, but one could only guess what he values that one at.
The most amusing part of the whole thing is how this guy picks apart some other truck in the pictures on his website when the one he is selling is nowhere near perfect-just look at the engine bay. BTW-since when has a Rover been at Pebble Beach? Based on arrogance alone, I can't see how anyone would ever deal with this guy.

[TedW]

I hope Charles gets every nickle.

A typical example of him taking things to extremes. Gotta love the product, though!

[Nium]

The ad seems to indicate he's restoring another Landy that will cost $88k not the one in the pics. I think the Pebble Beach reference was to the fact the seats were reupholstered in leather by a fellow that had won awards at Pebble Beach.

I have no comment about the air of arrogance the restorer seems to exude and the implied contempt for any one that wouldn't restore a Rover to his assumed level of expertise.

[Bertha]

The ad seems to indicate he's restoring another Landy that will cost $88k not the one in the pics..

I believe I acknowledged that in my post.

I think the Pebble Beach reference was to the fact the seats were reupholstered in leather by a fellow that had won awards at Pebble Beach.

My mistake on that one.

[griswald]

Boy is this going to be good, short though I am sure it will get locked.

I have seen this truck and it is beautiful...but it is only worth what someone will pay for it.

And it is a Land Rover not a Bugatti.

PM offline for more juice.

Best,
Griswald
(Somewhere near Olympia, Wa...)

[Nium]

I realize that he is not asking the 80k+ for the blue one pictured, but one could only guess what he values that one at.

My apologies Bertha my fingers got away from me.

[Daurie]

I've dealy with this guy before on small things and lemme tell ya he is proud of his stuff. He really does come off as holier than thou. I mean if you cant make your rover look like one of his (or pay him to LOL!!) then you just have no business owning one.

[vansdonk]

This was the guy that I posted about in the general forum. We were down that way last weekend and we were going to stop by. But the kids would have killed me for making them leave the water park to look at Rovers. LOL. We are going back down to Tahuya this weekend and it's just alittle bit farther to that place. Was thinking about checking out that $88K rover.

[Blueboy]

Regrettably, the vast majority of the original sixes have now suffered catastrophic engine conversions

yep, that would sum up my 109 - a catastrophic engine conversion to a LR 4.0 V8!


Jaime

[greasyhandsagain]

Its a beautiful restoration...perhaps TOO beautiful. How can it ever be 'used and enjoyed' as a real Land Rover should?

...he even imported actual British air to be pumped into the tires :-)

[brucejohn]

It would be great to have a very nicely restored Landy, though I doubt any of these will ever be too busy to pickup an Oscar.

[griswald]

cornflake...

[thixon]

Tell you what guys, I'll do everyone here a favor. I'll be glad to paint everyones rover on this board for the bargain price of $20,000. I promise you'll get the same quality, but at $10,000 less. In fact, I'll go one better. To the first 10 who sign up, I'll go ahead and restore your rovers to the same quality for a mere $60,000 a pop.

Honestly though, the guy will probably find someone to bite. Heck, I know some guys who would bite if I recommended the buy. A guy I do business with in Michigan supposedly paid over $400,000 for one of the two Monkey's GTO's. Another guy I do business iwth in the UK routinely buys brit cars back from the states after I look at them for him. He overpays almost every time, but does'nt care if he gets what he wants. These guys live in a different world. Remember the scene in Caddy Shack where the chick shows up at Chevy's house and finds a bunch of uncashed checks for five figures?!

[jac04]

I think that it's important to remember that anyone trying to make a living restoring & selling Land Rovers needs to get a decent amount of money for them. I'm not saying I would pay $80k, but I don't think that you should expect to be able to buy a professionally restored Rover for $25k. Heck, I'm into my Lightweight 'refurbushment' for over $25k in parts and I've put about 1000 hours into it. At $10/hr, it's a $35k vehicle and I certainly wouldn't consider selling it for less than that. Now consider a professional shop charging a very reasonable $50/hour........

[jb_]

I think that it's important to remember that anyone trying to make a living restoring & selling Land Rovers needs to get a decent amount of money for them. I'm not saying I would pay $80k, but I don't think that you should expect to be able to buy a professionally restored Rover for $25k. Heck, I'm into my Lightweight 'refurbushment' for over $25k in parts and I've put about 1000 hours into it. At $10/hr, it's a $35k vehicle and I certainly wouldn't consider selling it for less than that. Now consider a professional shop charging a very reasonable $50/hour........

Wow. I can't imagine anyone wanting to pay that much for a Series.

At the end of the day, it is still a Land Rover.

The guy in the link has a paint job of more than $30K. Talk about over capitalizing a vehicle!

I guess it comes down to a labour of love. I can't fault jac04 on the quality of his restoration or the passion that is going in to it, but I just can't imagine why anyone would pay that sort of money for a Land Rover that is still expected to leak oil and is sh*t to drive.