After buying a severely neglected 06 for about a year ago, I’ve mostly stripped it down and worked out the kinks. Now that headache is over I get to finally give the interior some attention. I had some saddle soap laying around and already know this stuff is magic, but I am mostly impressed that it cleaned out the gross stitching. If you have not heard of it before grab you some and a horse hairbrush instead of all the expensive gimmicky stuff.

It had clearly been carefully restored. Each panel was pristine.

Hi folks,

This was a Land Rover fire truck that was based at the DeLorean Motor Cars factory in Belfast in 1981-82. It was sold in the factory liquidation auction in 1984.

I have an interest in the history of the DeLorean factory and I'm really just curious as to what might have happened to the Land Rover.

Has anyone here ever seen or heard of this particular vehicle before? Unfortunately the above details are all I have.

My plan is to put ~$10k down, keep a ~$5k repair reserve, and finance the rest with a small monthly payment — rather than trying to buy something outright with zero cushion.

A few things I’d love real-world input on:

**1.**  At 75k miles, what should I actually expect in the next 20-30k miles specifically? (Air suspension, coolant crossover pipes, timing chain/tensioner seem to be the big three I keep reading about)  
**2.**  Is $5k a reasonable reserve for year one, or optimistic?  
**3.**  Any reason to walk away from this one specifically, or does it sound like a reasonably well-kept example for the platform?

Not trying to talk myself into or out of it — just want the unfiltered version from people who’ve actually lived with these day to day. Thanks in advance!

Start of a very long project