Landrover Entrepeneur

Post by **dunketh** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 11:11 am

This is an amazing story!

This chap buys scrap landies from the MOD, rips them to bits then makes new ones - which he then sells to the MOD!

Recycling at its best!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7052340.stm

Post by **chickenjohn** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 1:24 pm

Yes, its a great story-read it earlier today- we should do this for Morris Minors and sell them as true recycled sustainable transport.

Post by **jonathon** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 1:30 pm

We already do John

Post by **chickenjohn** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 3:01 pm

But not on that kind of scale.

Post by **d_harris** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 3:55 pm

Post by **rayofleamington** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 6:57 pm

Someone was telling me on Tuesday that Land Rover parts availability in Lincolnshire was better than anywhere else and that the parts were really cheap.
Wierd! Now I can understand why, if they sell at parts 50% of book price.

Post by **paulhumphries** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 7:52 pm

rayofleamington wrote:Someone was telling me on Tuesday that Land Rover parts availability in Lincolnshire was better than anywhere else and that the parts were really cheap.
Wierd! Now I can understand why, if they sell at parts 50% of book price.

I cann't understand though how they can say a Wolf engine at £7000 is half the new price - after all they are just normal 300TDi units and not that much to the "general public" from local LR dealers.
Are they really saying the military paid £14000 in the past for a engines ?
They should have tried one of the biggest / well known / excellent reputation Land Rover engine reconditioners
( http://turner-engineering.co.uk/html/st ... gines.html ) who could have supplied a short unit for £1895 and had £12000+ left over for the ancilliary components !

Paul Humphries

Post by **chickenjohn** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 7:24 am

" cann't understand though how they can say a Wolf engine at £7000 is half the new price "

I expect that was the BBC journo getting his facts wrong again.