Lucky man....

[Guest diesel_jim]

How would we all like to have HIS garage.....

[FridgeFreezer]

Cool, and a clever chap too.

[nickm]

£450 for a t box

no wonder he has so many

[sgnas]

£450 for a t box

no wonder he has so many

Remember, he's selling most of this stuff back to Government organisations (ours and others)

[q-rover]

"And here, I have 1,100 transfer boxes at £450 each, and these gearboxes - I've got 800 of them - are £2,000 each."

Mr Hobson reckons the bits in his barn are worth at least £25m ($50m) - and conceivably more than twice that, depending on how much his customers are willing to pay for them.

Now you know where your tax money is going...

[Kev Baldwin]

Pete Hobson used to break all of the Camels in the early days.

Anyone else got a copy of the Land Rover Directory he published in the late eighties??

[FridgeFreezer]

Now you know where your tax money is going...

I'll be that's a damn sight less than they spend with Land Rover.

[sheeppimp]

I'll be that's a damn sight less than they spend with Land Rover.

reckon so:

Hobson Industries sells the reconditioned parts at half the official Land Rover list-price, regardless of costs, and the components come with a two-year warranty, compared with a one-year warranty on new parts.

[Mark]

There was an article in one of the mags recently about his remanufactured Mod vehicles... can't remember which one though...

[missingsid]

My first thought was that if he cleaned and resold items from broken motors and rebuilds engines from parts that are worn from running in different engines then they ain't gonna last very long!

However he offers a 2 year warranty (mind you I bet that just covers a replacement part in the same condition).

Doubt he would deal with the likes of us just governments?

Either way fiar play to him, I am not sure if L-R see him as a pain or someone who keeps L-R sales going?

[siearl]

Thats one or two spares me thinks might be worth finding out if he sells to the general public

[steve b]

Anyone else got a copy of the Land Rover Directory he published in the late eighties??

Yep somewhere on a shelf..it was only done one year IIRC , good idea at the time.

All power to him , very green to rework rather than crush 'em and make new from new materials

..of course it should have been Steveb Industries really

cheers

Steveb

[Blippie]

As it happens, Hobson's toolbox is bulging

Some details not required...

Cheers

Blippie

[Eightpot]

Some interesting comments aout this on the EMLRA forum. particularly around how a retired Major sets up a parts business and then gets a major MOD contract ...

[T1G UP]

Some interesting comments aout this on the EMLRA forum. particularly around how a retired Major sets up a parts business and then gets a major MOD contract ...

Thats business......

[RedLineMike]

.....

[Holyzeus]

Thats business......

i call it the old boy network

[Cartman]

I call it a man on the inside who sees the MOD being ripped off and he see's an opening to pad his retirement fund while saving the tax payer cash

It's all business though and depends on your view

[Early90]

Doubt he would deal with the likes of us just governments?

He is selling on ebay, user name Hobson-bros.