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Got myself a black '96 Land Rover Discovery... Old Man Emu lift;4 inches, superswamper tires, ARB bar with attached 8,000pd winch... have I mentioned I love this car? I know it's not an option for everyone, but to avoid mechanic costs I do all the mechanical work myself... it's easy enough, as long as you get used to the sometimes strange way the British engineer a car (don't get me started on the electrical system...), but I love it all the same... and do you know what else I love? Taking this black beast and off-roading as much as I can... gives the local enviromentalists conniptions to think of me and my buddies running over poor defenseless bunny rabbits and endangered moths...

Mine's a 96, too. The last year they made a stick shift. I really don't want to have an automatic transmission, so will hang onto it until it dies.

I should do more of the work myself. I grew up with VWs and the Volkswagen Complete Idiot books. Wonderful things, those, with great instructions and illustrations, really showed you how to do just about anything.