Market car park, landrovers

[Hilly]

Melt it down and make it into something that works!

It dose work, melt them pickups down they worth fek all after a decade .

 

[livestock 1]

It dose work, melt them pickups down they worth fek all after a decade .

That’s coz the land rover has probably been parked up with a leg up half its life

 

[Al R]

Mine has bunge rope keeping passenger door shut, like i care i sit in the other side, you boys are soft as sh!t little snowflakes.

My drivers door was the same though, bungee chords were both connected to the gearstick. Wipers and heaters didn’t work.
A well known beet harvester mechanic from cambridge had a lift with me one day and he literally sh@ himself as we went down the road to the field, as he said it would’ve been pulled and scrapped by the police 10 years previous if it had been up his area.

 

[Hilly]

That’s coz the land rover has probably been parked up with a leg up half its life

Ive ran a defender for 29years and only had two, i cant remember ever repairing one other than tyres brake pads discs exhaust battery.

 

[Al R]

Quarterly Machinery Auction at McClellands livestock mart today. Among the items was the machinery belonging to a recently deceased farmer who died suddenly. His 4 year old bog standard Defender 90 was sold presented completely in its working clothes, for how much?
Have a guess.

What sort of mileage?
I bet some ret paid £20k?

 

[livestock 1]

Ive ran a defender for 29years and only had two, i cant remember ever repairing one other than tyres brake pads discs exhaust battery.

Mine was a pile of sh@te! Bad job when jap crap lasts longer here

 

[Al R]

Ive ran a defender for 29years and only had two, i cant remember ever repairing one other than tyres brake pads discs exhaust battery.

I never knew they came with exhausts? Is that an optional extra? I thought all the engine gases were meant to go into the cab to add to the thrill?

 

[shumungus]

What sort of mileage?
I bet some ret paid £20k?

Don't know exactly but it'll be that 30/40 thousand mile club.

 

[Hilly]

Mine was a pile of sh@te! Bad job when jap crap lasts longer here

I sold a jap pickup last winter, half millage and half age of defender was told no way it would get another mot, chassis rusted thin, landy will get another chassis when it gets that way, im keeping it for as long as i possibly can.

 

[Al R]

Don't know exactly but it'll be that 30/40 thousand mile club.

£22.5k?

 

[Red Fred]

On mine, the exhaust goes under the passenger floor and cooks the passenger, while the driver freezes.

 

[Al R]

On mine, the exhaust goes under the passenger floor and cooks the passenger, while the driver freezes.

 

[livestock 1]

I sold a jap pickup last winter, half millage and half age of defender was told no way it would get another mot, chassis rusted thin, landy will get another chassis when it gets that way, im keeping it for as long as i possibly can.

I couldn’t keep my td5 running. It was constantly broken down

 

[Hilly]

On mine, the exhaust goes under the passenger floor and cooks the passenger, while the driver freezes.

Mine takes 8 miles to warm up then its grand, its cos they have big radiators.

 

[Hilly]

I couldn’t keep my td5 running. It was constantly broken down

Thats unfortunate, mines touching 100k miles only thing was a wiring loom under warrenty.

 

[Hilly]

I used to have a maroon 300tdi 90 county pack, so regret selling a 300tdi they were the best by far.

 

[Red Fred]

Still have to say that the series 2 with soft top and the door tops off was the dog's bits for driving fun. I put it on softer road tyres and used to take it camping in Cornwall, 200 miles away and it never stranded me anywhere although it needed fettling all the time. It was 40 years old by then, though, so that was fair. Driving it stripped down in the summer is great, you are at one with nature instead of being isolated from reality in a tin box.

 

[livestock 1]

I used to have a maroon 300tdi 90 county pack, so regret selling a 300tdi they were the best by far.

I had a 200 defender diesel did 400k was a good one

 

[Red Fred]

For some reason the Germans had the most trouble, did they have a different variant or something?

If you ignore the bad press it had, a lot of pilots raved about the Starfighter.

It was fine for what it was designed for, intercepting Russian bombers at 50,000 ft in a minute, but they bribed the Germans and several other countries to buy them as ground attack planes for which they were really not suited. I remember the bribes scandal dragging on for years in the '70s.

 

[Weasel]

I’m 6’4 with a 12” wang and I find the steering very stiff

I'm 5 ft 9 with a 12 inch Wang