Here in Colorado, retired members of the Land Rover family are lined up in large numbers in every self-service wrecking yard. Range Rovers and Discoveries were (and are) extremely popular here, most likely as a form of rebellion against the Subaru Outback-driving hordes whose maintenance expenses (even with all the blown head gaskets and nuked center diffs) come to a boring 0.004% of the total per-vehicle annual cost of Range Rover ownership. I’ve been ignoring these trucks when I see them in junkyards, but today we’re going to look at a typical example, chosen at random. (Read More…)
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Tagged as 1990s, 1995, 1995 Range Rover, 4wd, AWD, Denver, Down On The Junkyard, junkyard, Junkyard Find, Land Rover, Range Rover, SUV
Tagged as 1990s, 1995, 1995 Range Rover, 4wd, AWD, Denver, Down On The Junkyard, junkyard, Junkyard Find, Land Rover, Range Rover, SUV
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