It all started about 4 years ago. I was running around in a 1990 Ford Sierra XR4x4 2.0i, that I had played with quite a bit (rebuilt engine to stage 1 spec etc...) and was getting a hankering for something different.......so decided to look at Discovery's.....the rest (or should that be rust?) is history.....
The first one I found was a 1991 (J Reg) 200 TDi 3 door. Looked good enough on eBay (oh dear) and was a bargain compared to others I had seen (and lost out on).
So the day arrived, and we set off to the South Coast to track it down and bring it home. To say it was described "accurately" on eBay is not exactly true - it was a nail :( - rusty sills, inner wings, rear crossmember, gutless 200 TDi engine with 220k on the clock, no drive unless it was in difflock (turned out to be a destroyed CV Joint (not mentioned in the ad) both headlights badly corroded, and to top it all off, they didn't work, interesting when you've got a 200 mile journey to do in December.
So this one stayed with me for a while (well, about 3 months) before I had the option of my second Disco - a 1990 3.5 Efi 5 Door with LPG - in exchange for my XR. It was lightyears away from the J plate diesel, only requiring minor work to the sills and rear arches, along with a pair of headgskets. The smile it gave when you booted the loud pedal was rather pleasing, the rate the fuel gauge went down wasn't, and with the lack of LPG stations round here, it had to go.
Enter Disco number 3 (in almost as many years). A Caprice Green 300 TDi ES Spec from 1994, another eBay purchase (I really should learn) advertised as taxed and tested, but having suddenly lost drive one morning. Snapped up for the bargain price of £600, it was collected and the investigation began. One secondhand gearbox later (the output splines had stripped - more on that when i get round to a history of my Disco's) and she was on the road, delivering a sterling service, until August last year.......
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