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Range Rover Classic
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Put in the asking price and the odometer reading. You will see what this model should make at that reading.
Odometer only. Colour, options, history, condition and the photographs move it further, and that is what the report reads.
Price history
The verdict
Recorded sales
Every row, with its price and note (2) ↓
Score breakdown
The working behind each factor: baseline and drivers ↓
What it costs to own · about 4,977 km a year
Specification
What moves the price on this model
Condition, history, originality, ownership, delivery and modification multipliers apply to every car in the library. They are applied automatically when an advertisement is analysed, and the schedule is set out once, on the analyser page.
Projected value in five years
The case for and against
Early two-doors roughly doubled to two and a half times into a 2022 peak and have held since, and genuine early two-doors number perhaps 100 to 250 in the whole country. The one published local result is a 1972 Suffix B two-door at $27,000 in July 2018, which was before any of that happened.
The value on this page is the four-door driver, and four-doors barely moved at all. Body frame corrosion under the aluminium is $40,000 and a galvanised chassis $45,000 on a $22,500 vehicle, so restoring one properly costs more than all but the best two-doors are worth.
Known faults and risks
Similar cars, and what they cost to run
A 1990 3.9 Vogue made $25,750 on 17 September: Australian-delivered, Trocadero Red over grey velour, automatic, 326,450 kilometres not warranted, a long service in February 2026 at 322,000 kilometres, stone chips front and rear. Carried on this record's curve to the 214,000 kilometres it expects, that is about $27,900, twenty-four per cent over the carried $22,500. One result does not move a value on a model this wide, and it is the first four-door this record has seen. A second near it would.
Read the rest of the evidence notes (5 more)
Shannons sold a 1972 Range Rover 'Suffix B' two-door wagon for $27,000 in July 2018. It is the only Range Rover Classic result in the entire published archive, which for this segment runs 2018 to March 2022 and then stops, because Shannons left the auction business in November 2023. It is a genuine early two-door, which makes it a useful anchor for the two-door market and no anchor at all for the four-door market this value describes. It also sits above that value, eight years earlier and before the boom.
A good honest early two-door is $45,000 to $75,000. A good honest four-door driver is $15,000 to $30,000, and the $22,500 here is the middle of that. Early two-doors roughly doubled to two and a half times into a 2022 peak and have been flat since; four-doors barely moved. The gap has widened dramatically, and any single figure covering both describes neither.
The 175 carried here is the research's estimate of genuine early two-doors in the country, the middle of a range of perhaps 100 to 250. It is not a population for the whole model. The four-door the value describes is a far more common vehicle than that number implies, so the scarcity on this page belongs to the car in the options rather than to the car in the price.
Body frame corrosion in the steel skeleton under the aluminium panels - A, B and D pillars, sills, tailgate frame and floor - is $40,000. A galvanised replacement chassis is $45,000. A Rover V8 rebuild for dropped liners or a porous block is $20,000, and an early two-door retrim another $20,000 on scarce parts. Against a $22,500 four-door, any one of those is terminal.
These were sold new here as factory right-hand drive, four-doors in volume from 1981 and early two-doors in small numbers, so no conversion cost or conversion discount applies. Many of the two-doors in the country now are British imports rather than original Australian deliveries. The delivery field reads zero because no Australian figure was found, not because the vehicle was never sold here.
The report prices the car in the advertisement.
Send the link. A person reads the advertisement and its photographs and sends back what that Range Rover Classic is worth, what to offer and when to walk away, with five years of costs at the distance you drive.
The evidence on this model is thin and the report says so on its cover. Read a complete one on a real car first. Seventeen sections, no account, nothing to pay.
One line of email when this desk publishes a call on a Range Rover Classic, or records a new Australian sale of one. Nothing else, no schedule, and on a quiet model you may hear nothing for months, which is itself worth knowing about a car you are chasing.