how long have you owned your Rover???

[mongoswede]

I've owned one rover for 3 years and another for 2. I've driven both rovers a total of about 20 minutes Of course both are projects....one is ready for reassembly and the other really just needs a new home. Then there is the hybrid that I'd really like to finish....just need to get a defender bulkhead, windshield+frame, and roof.

[rocinante]

I've had my poppy red '74 Series III since 1988. I bought it from a plumber in Rockland County NY. I had some work done on it in 1989 by Fred Monsees ("Piermont Off-Road"), who at the time had a shop on Cape Cod. Anybody know where he is now?

I hardly ever get to drive it, but I'll never sell this thing.

Charles Schneider
Raynham MA

[smukai]

Time...

I first started looking for a Series Land Rover in 1993. My Dad and I went and drove an '88, I couldn't get it into second gear and he just laughed and laughed (and laughed) at me.

I bought my '67 IIa 109 Station Wagon in the later months of 1999 and the love affair has lost none of the passion. I've just added a wife, a dog and two kids to the affair (in that order).

[Bostonian1976]

had mine since June '05

[Terrys]

My first one stayed around for 8 years, but it was young and almost never broke. Most just visit for a year or two, but I think I'll keep the present ('73 88) for a few seasons. I've had my NAS110 for 11 years.

[artpeck]

I fell in love with Rovers when I was working in southern africa in the early 80s. A new disco was purchased in '98 and a new range rover in 2006 (both sold). I reenergized my love affair with "real" rovers (at least to me) when I was back in Africa in the bush in 2007 and bought my '95 d-90 when I returned. The series came in when an uncle by marriage who had owned it since new was moving into assisted living and it had to go to a good home last year. Who knows what is next...

[RoverForm]

Posted once, but have attached again a photo from 1964 of me and my father and the rover- when we were all considerably younger.

i think that might be one of the best "rover" photos i have ever seen!

[jac04]

Posted once, but have attached again a photo from 1964 of me and my father and the rover....

That's a great picture. Post it as many times as you like. I'll enjoy looking at it every time!

[stonefox]

Its definately a feel good photo. I wish my Rover and I had that kind of history

[kwd509]

The best part is

At first my siblings thought it was crazy to reclaim the truck..... Now they have drunk the cool aide and are nearly as enthusiastic as me.

[stonefox]

That Rover Cool Aide is some strong $hit.It has definately been dragging me around by my short hairs.

[czenkov]

Fred Monsees

I've had my poppy red '74 Series III since 1988. I bought it from a plumber in Rockland County NY. I had some work done on it in 1989 by Fred Monsees ("Piermont Off-Road"), who at the time had a shop on Cape Cod. Anybody know where he is now?

Charles,
Are you referring to Fred Monsees of Camel Trophy fame? He rode in my Defender with the GF at the last Overland Expo on the LRExperience course. I think he is an instructor with the Land Rover Experience - full time? Very cool guy if we are referring to the same Fred.

http://turtleexpedition.com/photo-galleries/photo/5751865554/overland-expo-2011.html

[RoverForm]

Hx

At first my siblings thought it was crazy to reclaim the truck..... Now they have drunk the cool aide and are nearly as enthusiastic as me.

i think sometimes people forget how important history is. it sounds odd but people do often bond with other people through objects. then those objects become heirlooms. just recently my father sold the mercedes he bought just months after i was born back in '77. felt kind of strange to see it go.

and to answer the OPs question, i bought my first in 2005, a RHD '79 SIII 109 safari wagon. and my second just last year in august. a '66 RHD SIIa 88 soft top. so clearly not long enough...

i guess the trend dictates that i'm due for a third purchase sometime in 2015.

[MJL]

I agree. Where was the picture taken. Looks like a UK number plate

[kwd509]

Photo was taken in Lancing, Tennessee, which is on the cumberland Plateau. About an hr northwest of Knoxville. The truck was purchased in England, driven a relatively short distance in the UK and shipped to Boston in aprox April 1964 (the ship, the American Chieftain was new at the time and scrapped in 1988). IIRC my father told the story that it arrived 'uncrated', which as he told it meant it was on the ship's deck but not fully assembled. He spent the weekend putting things together at my uncle's house outside Boston.

I am hoping that my aunt, as she packs up her house to go to live with her kids, goes through photos. I cannot imagine that the weekend assembly project was not photographed at all.

You never know. But the history is interesting.