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Just leave it and buy a real LR maybe a 90 or 110.
Oh no, dear boy - the Disco is a far better off roader than many believe. I've waded a 200 yard lake in 3 feet of water and climbed out of a bomb hole you couldn't walk up and mine is automatic and is on road tyres.
Thomas coupling
Eventually - if all else fails, claim off the insurance and then buy it back from the salvage company the insurance company use to retrieve it.
My insurance company wouldn't let me buy mine when it got damaged last year. The insurance company had a contract with a salvage company and whatever my rights, they rode me out.
Birddog
Edited to add: Remember there is a 4wd low-range fixed diff gear shift setting on these cars for a reason... people tend to forget about that in the mud (or snow)...
Some do - if its automatic it may not. The device locks the 'centre' diff that balances power front to rear.
Shy Torque
We can't hang any old bit of rope on an aircraft for jobs such as this, by the way. If it breaks under tension, the part attached to the aircraft may well fly up into the rotors and you will have two recovery jobs, not one, at best.
My late and very much missed mate Graham Budden had that happen to him in a Chinook in the Falklands. The hook broke while lifting an empty 40ft ISO, but the rear strop hung on long enough to take the full, falling weight of the container before it too broke. The hook assembly spat back upwards and went round the fuselage three times, each time smashing blades on the front rotor.
Despite the massive vibration, Graham and his (Australian?) PH (?) managed to get it over land and virtually dropped it onto a cricket pitch opposite the 'Upland Goose'. When Graham saw the rotors, he was physically sick. The damage was very severe indeed and one blade was almost completely delaminated. After those sons of fun the engineers had fitted a new set of blades and done a rough set up, Graham had to fly it back to Kelly's Gardens on his own.
Roger.