Recovery Discovery – Diary of a Restoration
A Land Rover, a lot of hope, and even more tools.
Prologue - What have we done?
Hello dear ones,
Here begins a project that cannot be explained rationally: a Land Rover Discovery II , built in 1999, formerly of the Federal Border Police, frog green, inside as if it had come through a drilling workshop, outside with patina instead of paint.
Composite windows at the rear, classic glass at the front, cables emerging from the roof, lights that are more like legends than illuminants.
Tires from 2009, rims from the Stone Age, and still TÜV.
How? We'll sort that out as soon as our nerves are strong enough.
Why all this? Because we want to find out if an old company car can be revived using as many pre-manufactured parts as possible. So that its carbon footprint rivals that of a new car.
At the same time, we calculate when a new car is really “worth it” and when it is wiser to use existing resources.
This is neither nostalgia nor pure fantasy; it's an experiment. And yes, of course, we secured the domain first. It's an agency reflex.