1995 Land Rover Range Rover Classic County LWB, 4.2 V8

This 1995 Land Rover Range Rover Classic is a long wheelbase County finished in black over tan and is offered from Nottingham Road by midlands_classic, about this seller, its fourth owner and the keeper of the vehicle for six years. It carries the 4.2 litre V8 through the four speed automatic and shows 214,600km.

It no longer sits on its air suspension. The system was removed in 2020 and coil springs and new dampers went in, invoiced, with the removed components retained and photographed. That is a conversion away from how the vehicle was built and the listing states it as one rather than as an upgrade.

The structure has been photographed rather than described. The rear cross member carries a let in repair section done by a previous owner at a date nobody can establish, and it is photographed from underneath along with the chassis rails and the boot floor. The cooling system was replaced in 2023 and the workshop logged coolant temperatures on a hill climb afterwards, which is on the invoice.

One question was declined. Asked whether the engine has ever suffered a liner slip or a head gasket failure, which is the documented question on this V8, the seller said the block has never been opened in his six years and the file he inherited has gaps between 2011 and 2019. He will not answer for that period and says so in the transcript.

The remaining flaws are a sagging headlining pinned rather than rebonded, bubbling under the paint at both front door bottoms with a driver's door that drops on its hinge, and a gearbox slow into fourth when cold.

The Classic is the original Range Rover, in production from 1970 to 1996, and the long wheelbase County is the late luxury version of it: air suspension, the enlarged 4.2 litre V8, and an interior that was trying to justify the price rather than the mud. It is the vehicle that invented the category every manufacturer now sells.

Two things define a surviving one. The Rover V8 runs cylinder liners that can slip in the block, which presents as coolant loss and then as a head gasket that will not stay sealed, so the cooling history and any evidence of the block having been opened is the first thing to read. And the bodies rot in specific places: the rear cross member, the boot floor, the A posts and the door bottoms.

The air suspension is the third conversation. Original systems are long past their service life, replacement is expensive, and coil conversions are common enough that the market has largely made its peace with them. What matters is whether the conversion is declared, because a Classic sitting level on coils and described as having working air suspension is a listing nobody should trust.