Land Rover Discovery XD - 20th Anniversary

[pdXDisco97]

All,

I'm feeling inspired tonight, so I want to get this out there.

Next year is the 20th anniversary of the Land Rover Discovery XD. While this may not be a big deal to most of you (yes, I know it's just an SD with Yellow paint), but to me as an owner of one, I'm really excited about the possibilities. I thought it would be great to try and put together as much information as possible in one place about the XD, including the 1996 TReK trucks. I'm not sure what form it will take, maybe a website, a brochure, a pdf, I don't know, but I do know that it will be fun to gather all the information available, as well as known trucks and the owners (if they are willing) to share their stories and where the rigs are and how many are left.

If you are the owner of an XD, have ever owned one in the past, or just know a thing or two about the trucks that would be of interested to the Land Rover community, please send me a note and I'll gather it up as I go. You can reply to this thread, PM me, or send an email to the address below. My hope is to have something completed early next year to properly celebrate the 20th anniversary, maybe even culminating in a meet-up somewhere!

I hope the results are a fun bit of history, and I look forward to hearing about the XD in more detail!

1997LRdiscoXD (at) gmail(dot)com

Thanks,
Joey

 

[discostew]

Inspired ? You mean Shitfaced Drunk right?

 

[Devildog01]

Yay shitfaced drunk!!!!!!!!!

 

[pdXDisco97]

Ha! Sober as could be... but I had just chatted with a member of the PCRC who was an original XD owner, actually ended up being Ho Chung's XD, which made me curious to track the history of the trucks as much as possible.

 

[stu454]

I've got a low SD rack if anyone needs it to make their XD whole again.

 

[ERover82]

Little known fact: Owning an XD transforms your daily commute into a Borneo bridge building and winching exercise. You wont even know you're headed to work.

 

[discostew]

Ha! Sober as could be... but I had just chatted with a member of the PCRC who was an original XD owner, actually ended up being Ho Chung's XD, which made me curious to track the history of the trucks as much as possible.

If you pm me your vin I might be able to get some info about yours. Like the selling dealer and maybe some of its warranty service history.

 

[KyleT]

I've got a low SD rack if anyone needs it to make their XD whole again.

That rack is worth 3x the truck it came off of...

I had a friend buy a XD for the rack. Paid 600 for it. The truck is gone. It had something like 280k miles and still ran until it was run out of oil.

 

[stu454]

I sold the truck for $3800. So, yay for me.

 

[pdXDisco97]

Little known fact: Owning an XD transforms your daily commute into a Borneo bridge building and winching exercise. You wont even know you're headed to work.

It's true! Whenever I drive it to work, I end up plowing through mud up to my hood and winching KIA's out of the ditch, it's pretty exciting, but the gas mileage sucks so I limit it to twice a week.

stu454, I do need the low version of the rack, someday... If only you weren't across the country!

 

[pdXDisco97]

Any XD owners out there... I've set up a Facebook page to share information and see how many XDs are still on the road.

https://www.facebook.com/landroverdiscoveryxd/