YouTuber Exhumes Problematic Range Rover He Buried Last Year
Enthusiast buried his 2004 Range Rover because it had too many problems. Now it has even more issues…and a new owner?!
There’s a good chance that, at some point in your life, you’ve had at least one car that was a total nightmare. It was basically a never-ending game of mechanical whack-a-mole – you fixed one problem and another one popped up immediately. And you probably fantasized about how you’d get rid of that car. Maybe you pictured yourself setting it on fire or running it over with a tank to put it out of your misery. Tyler Hoover, the star of the popular YouTube channel Hoovie’s Garage, had that kind of vehicle. It was a 2004 Land Rover Range Rover that “needed a hundred hours of labor just to get it highway worthy,” according to Hoover. Instead of just daydreaming of over-the-top ways to get rid of it, he put one into action and buried the rolling nuisance last year.
In one of his most recent videos, Hoover decides enough time has gone by and that it’s time to unearth the L322. It’s not just because it’ll be interesting to see how its body and interior have held up underneath so many feet of rain-soaked Kansas soil. Hoover needs to get the Range Rover out of the ground so he can hand it over to its new owner, Freddy Hernandez aka “Tavarish,” another YouTube celebrity who buys seriously troubled luxury and exotic cars and breathes new life into them.
Hoover’s friend and go-to mechanic, David Long aka The Car Wizard (another popular YouTuber), was kind enough to let him bury the Range Rover on his property. To save time exhuming it, the guys enlist the services of an excavator operator.
During the rescue mission, the excavator accidentally pierces the Range Rover’s rear window, which gives Hoover and his pals a view inside the water-filled interior or, as Hoover describes it, “Batman’s cave.”
Once the excavator uncovers most of the Range Rover’s squashed roof and scoops out the mud on the sides of the vehicle, Hoover digs his way to the tow hitch, attaches a chain, then has the excavator operator yank the big burden out of its filthy temporary residence.
Hoover and Hernandez are curious to know if the Range Rover’s V8 will start, but Hernandez will have to wait until he drains the water out of it before attempting to crank it up. As Hoover puts it, “If the engine’s going to run again, [starting] it would ruin the engine trying to compress the water in there.” At least Hernandez knows the key won’t be going anywhere because it’s stuck in the cylinder. We’re confident he can solve that problem. As for the other 6,997,813 issues…
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