REGGIE ROVER || Birth of an Overland Vehicle - Part 1 || Why a Range Rover Classic?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ย. 2024
- Hello viewers, friends, and family!
Last week's video showed a bit about how our life is going in Coronavirus Lockdown here in Honduras. As most of you know, we were racing to get home to the United States when the travel restrictions started happening - we barely managed to make it into Honduras, and there we got stuck after Guatemala closed its borders to non-nationals. If you haven't taken a look at that video you should check it out - it shows where we are living and what some of our daily life looks like.
This week's video is Part 1 in a two-part series that Tim was anxious to film. It is the story of Reggie Rover - how we ended up with a Range Rover Classic and turned it into our overland vehicle. And if you think this is going to be a big talking video, well, you're semi-correct, BUT we have gone back through old photos and videos from those first years, and even pre-Reggie. We have scattered some of the fun and interesting clips into the video, so you won't have to stare at Tim the whole time, haha.
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And join us next week for an unknown video - it might be Part 2 of this series if Tim can get it filmed, or it might be a vlog-style day in the life of lockdown if I can get that filmed, or it might be a Spotlight Special that we filmed back in Australia if Tim can get it finished after 3 years of editing, LOL.
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*Gotta learn to love it"...truth! I've always been a Chevy guy, but my Rover changed that. Absolutely love this truck.
Haha, we've always loved Suzukis for rock crawling and stuff, but once we got Reggie we really started enjoying more long-distance adventures. And he's mechanical so pretty easy to fix and take care of!
Thanks for making this vid! Im a 30 year old, so tired of looking at new vehicles. Im hell bent on getting a RR classic and want it to sit just like the stance on yours.
The RR Classic is an awesome capable 4WD. I have 2 of them, both V8 3.5 which is not the best engine. One was 1985 and the other a Hiline 1988. Now a I have a Tdi300 1998 Disco.IMO you have the right choice and combination with the RRC and a Tdi engine. Thank you for sharing, keep safe, and the dram alive.
Yes, we have really enjoyed traveling with our RRC - he is durable, reliable, and a mountain goat! We have met so many Land Rover owners while traveling - it has been a lot of fun. Thank you!
Loved it! Really nice! 🙌🏻👌🏻
Thanks Jorge! Miss you guys.....
Planet Overland Same here, wish you could stay here in CR, definitely one of the best places to be now
You guys are great, found you through Dirt Sunrise and being a rover guy myself, had to subscribe! Love the RRC!
Are you guys still in Colorado? Will be up there in Ouray and surrounding areas for a couple weeks end of July for the national rally and side trips. If you are ever in Texas, look up the Texas Rovers club!
Hello Chad - sorry for the delay in answering! We just moved from Colorado down to Arizona to stay with my parents after my mother's cancer treatment. From here we are hoping to get jobs in Death Valley for the winter, so we may not be back to Colorado for a little while. Thanks for subscribing - we will be back with more videos about Reggie and our new Skoolie build shortly!
Somehow just found you, despite always searching for RRC vids as I own a 94 LWB myself.
As I’m going through and plan on building something very similar to this, I figured I’d ask for your advice.
What should I focus on rebuilding/replacing first? It runs great and was my DD for 8 months. But it clunks here and there. I just swapped in an LT230 as the BW was fried.
It needs paint and could use an interior freshening up. The engine/trans hasn’t failed me but it lacks some serious power...
But if you were to start from the ground up, what would be the first thing you would focus on?
Exterior as a means of preservation? Frame and body...
Engine swap despite running fine? LS3?
Axles/diffs/lockers?
Suspension?
Just a lot and am overwhelmed. TIA
Hi Amando!
Well our vehicle was built up based on what we intended to do with it. In our case we use it for long term independent travel to remote locations. So for us the first priority was making the vehicle perfect mechanically. When we started we actually rebuild the transmission, we also did a rebuilt LT230 as well, then came the motor and that's where we decided to do a new 2.8 TGV diesel. We went with diesel do to fuel range and dependability, a V8 would never get the 28mpg that we get today! We completely cleaned and rustproofed the vehicle, rebuilt the axles including adding air lockers, added new heavy duty springs and shocks. Once we completed those keys items we then went on to hit the "extras" externally like added external tire carrier, heavy front bumper with winch, driving lights, snorkel and a hard top roof tent. Many more things were done but I guess the point is write down on paper what the vehicle will be used for, (overlanding, rock crawling, weekend trips, etc) then you can start deciding what "extras" you need to implant. Also write down a list of what really needs attention, in my case right now I need to fix an oil pan leak and two rust spots in the rear wheel wells, those are top priority. Make sure you get your list prioritized, fixing a rust spot isn't the coolest item but a truck won't go far no matter the cool engine if the rust make its fall apart.
Let me know what your intended usage is, send it to info@planetoverland.com and ill let you know what I would do, also let me know where you live!
Cheers
Tim
Do you still have the bull bar that is shown at 0:10 ? If so would you consider selling it? I have a Range Rover classic and it is almost impossible to find one here in Europe
Hello! So sorry for the late reply - we just relocated, and it has been hectic! The bull bar on Reggie's front end is actually just a Smittybilt front bumper for a Jeep Cherokee. Tim thinks that you may be able to find one over in Europe. Unfortunately we love our front bumper and are not interested in selling it :o)
But check out Jeep bumpers over there and you should be able to find one that will fit, or can be customized to fit. Tim says he had to customize the mount of the Jeep Cherokee one that we bought, but after that it worked great!
Thank you for the question, and thanks for watching!
I love your videos
Thank you so much!!!!!
Awesome video 👍
Thank you so much!!
What a cracking version you've made there! I've had my 1989 3.5 V8 for a couple of years now and it's been nigh on faultless. I mention the V8 bit as although they're very common for you lucky Americans, they're quite a rarity here in England/Ireland & Europe, thanks to our evil tax-grabbing governments!
In fact, in the two years I've owned mine I'm rather concerned that it's been so reliable I'm thinking of taking it back to the factory to get some unreliability fitted :-)
Good luck with your future mods and travels.
Good job buying the only flawless LR in Europe! Over here our rain of tyranny is almost over so life should get better shortly! On this side diesels are the thing we have so many V8's to choose from its silly! Cheers!
This vlog style video is really good. You can really see the passion Tim has for cars.. Im curious why he didn't mention the car you guys have in the garage in Colorado? hahaha
Thanks James! And haha, the car in ARIZONA is my car, and def not an overlanding car LOL
We had a Nissan Patrol optional 4-wh drive in Africa - got it stuck deeply in 4-wh drive and almost lost it in quicksand. Also, drove it for 6 months on very thin brake pads until new ones could be imported for it. Like driving with eggs in your brakes?
Haha! We always carry spare breaks. Would hate to get into quicksand :o)
Hi, I hope you are doing good, I have a Land Rover Discovery 1 (96), I would like to prepare for overland and one of the first thing I would like to do is convert to diesel, what Diesel engine did you choose?
Best regards,
We chose the 2.8 TGV that was built by MD Engineering in England. And funnily enough, it was cheaper to ship to the US from England than getting an engine shipped internally from the US!
What were the challenges of pairing that 2.8 to a classic trani
The only tricky part is modifying the 4.6 automatic bell housing for placing the starter. The rest was pretty simple, all told!
So - you can drive it even if we have a magnetic pulse. But not during Coronavirus!
So true, so true!!!
Where did you source you 2.8 TGV?
A while back I ordered It from M&D engineering in the UK, then later I found the vehicle to put it in! :-)
Nive story and cool Range Rover. But after 28 years worldwide in the oil/gasindustry i can sat that Toyota is still the best 4x4. Its the workhorse by far. And yes your own 4x4 is the best i understand. But in standard form Toyota LC and Hilux are very well build 4x4's. They got this reputation long time ago and still have it.(i personally know Mr.Land Rover Roger Crathorne and even he admitted tat the quality of Toyota is beyond all.) You changed nearly everything on the Range Rover so nothing standard anymore. The LSE was on of the worst series ever build, air suspension and electronics killed most of them. On coils its getting better. But its great to build your own 4x4 with modern technology. I own a original 2 dor Range Rover from 1978. love it but compared to my Land Cruiser FJ40 the building quality is a lot less. But it drives great.
Yes we love Toyota as well! They make a few good ones I wouldn't mind having. But for now we're sticking with our loved RRC which has been flawless and setup as we like it, Yes someday well change to another but I can't say what it will be until I sit behind the wheel and get "that loving feeling". Thanks for watching and the comment!
@@planetoverland I know what you mean, same for me in my 1978 2 door classic. Still original with a big cluncky 4 speed gearbox. You did do a great job on the rebuild though. Overlanding in europe is going to campings as wild camping is not allowed.
Your Instagram is creepy as hell.
What?! Haha. Not sure what you mean by that....