New Here, Question on a 1970 IIa purchase

[xsbowes]

Will all you guys come over one day and help me explain to my wife that I'm really not the "only one?"

I also need you to pay visits to the members of my HOA while you're at it!

If you are a member of a Rover Club have the next meeting at your house, you'll probably get half the neighborhood to buy a rover.

As far as the wife good luck, I can't even get my wife to take a short ride down the block. Especially after I made her ride from Hamburg Germany to Sicily in October of 2000. Although she says it was the best trip she ever had. But I'm workin' on her and the lightweight to get them more comfortable with each other.

[SafeAirOne]

2 things:

1) This link will be helpful when doing a pre-purchase inspection: http://www.lrfaq.org/Series/FAQ.S.look_for.html

2) I'm never going to try to sell a Rover to Travis!

[TCapelle]

Charlie Brown trucks

Crakin's comments are hilarious and sad but true...

I have bought 3 series rovers in the last year at a price of less than 2k to 6k

When you have 5 rovers your wife and others start to ask really anoying questions like...

"why do you need 5 trucks that me and the family don't really want to ride in"

"Why does the garage smell like an old snowmobile"

"Were you running a chainsaw out here"

"Where are your keys so I can move the green rover to park the other green rover in the 3rd stall so I can mover the blue rover in the 2nd stall and park my station wagon in the garage?"

The old Charlie Brown trucks are a big undertaking- but there is something about them that just calls your name "buy me"

[crankin]

So...these trucks are like "The Field of Dreams" with Kevin Costner…

He was building something that everyone thought was crazy to do, took all his money, made him hear and see things...but in the end, man, did he have something sweet sitting in his yard that everyone wanted to come see.

[Rineheitzgabot]

Bugeye-thing

I'm the token, Bugeye idiot, and all these guys are right, it doesn't mean jack-sh!t as far as value goes.

One of the RN people pointed out to me that it is quite possible that there are Bugeyes out there that are 1970's. FYI

Good luck in your pursuit. When you start working on it, and upgrading with certain mods, and your wife asks, after you excitedly show her the new roof rack you made, "Oh honey, that's a nice thingy that you made and fastened to the top of your truck, what do you plan on carrying up there?" You have no answer because up until now, it never occurred to you that it might have a practical use. You say something like, "You know, when I take the kids camping...". Yep. I had a plan the whole time.

This is purely hypethetical; it's not like this ever happened to me or anything.

[scott]

I'm the token, Bugeye idiot...

i wouldn't say you're an idiot, quite the contrary...you've already demonstrated a greater intelligence than the heep and yota owners

4x4's, they all break down, they all get stuck, so i chose to do it in a unique vic

[Tim Smith]

Best post ever!

Agreed.