Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

Work undertaken so far has included:

• New heater matrix £40
  
• Dash out and dismantling of heater box to replace blower motor with aftermarket kit from USA £160
  
• Upgraded heater blower resistor pack £50
  
• New front fog lamps £30
  
• Oil and filter change £30
  
• Air filter £10
  
• Expansion tank £20
  
• Coolant flush £20
  
• New steering column lower shaft assembly and universal joints £40
  
• Replacement ABS ECU £30
  
• New rear bumper end caps and fittings £50
  
• Other exterior and interior trims, lights etc £50
  
  

Of course I have saved a packet on the above by doing all of the work myself. I'd estimate the labour would have been somewhere around £1.5-2k?

The previous owner treated it to a basic respray, new tyres all round, new vented and cross drilled discs and decent pads all round and the 3.9 V8 is very strong indicating a rebuild at some point in its past.

Needs

• New driver's seat recliner motor
  
• New driver's door window lifter channel
  
• Repairs to off-side front inner wing
  
  

The poor old thing has 202,000 miles on the clock and so is a bit rough around the edges. I didn't want anything too nice as it lives outside on the street.

I committed to buy it unseen on the basis that the £2.6k I paid was not much above scrap value for one of these. I was pleasantly surprised to find the thing was actually a viable runner!

Even the interior isn't too bad for such a high miler:

Of course it would need a full restoration to make it 'nice'. But then again it would make a lot more sense to buy something like this to start with:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1990-LAND-ROVER-RANGE-ROVER-VOGUE-EFI-A-AUTOMATIC/222685512223?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649