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Got it!

Sitting here toasting (Safeway Tempranillo, not bad) the arrival of a new baby to the Brookman household.

I went to Essex (630 mile round trip) yesterday to fetch the new addition. A slight navigational error where I completely missed the turning to the M25 had me dragging a trailer and S2a round the North Circular at 5pm on a Saturday. It was fine, but then I did have my eyes shut most of the time. Passed a *very* bad accident on the M11, where a small yellow sports hatch (Max Power style) had come to grief and ended on the hard shoulder. No other vehicle involved, but horrible skid marks across all 3 lanes and back again. From the state of it, he had rolled several times, and I fear for the occupants as the roof was pushed down below the level of the steering wheel. Hell of a mess.

But I digress.. Went out for a spin in the S2a today, quite a culture shock after a few thousand miles in an automatic Rangie. It's slow, it's crude, it's basic, but it has some major good features:

  1. I understand how it works.
  2. I've started to get waves from other Landy drivers again.
  3. It looks just terrific.

(Point 1 was to be "Everything on it seems to work", but I don't want to tempt fate.)

Main observation is that it seems to be massively under-geared. The engine has plenty of poke, but it's screaming its nuts off at 50mph. Anyone got a spare overdrive unit?

As with all additions to the family, I have fallen in love immediately and completely. Series fans, expect some daft questions any day now.

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Richard Brookman
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If you're not going to take it off road too much consider range rover diffs damn sight cheaper just need to either have the speedo adjusted or put tipex marks on the face mine cost me 50 GBP for the pair as opposed to 280GBP for an overdrive

No such thing as a daft question only ones we don't know the answers to yet

Andy

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Andy.Smalley

What happened to number 1 then? :)

*sulk* Ok, so I drive a Disco[1] not a series, but I've never had a wave from other Landy drivers.

On the bright side, I stopped and helped a poor woman with her car this evening on the way to work. She'd pulled over and was blocking a lane of traffic, so I gently nudged her forward enough to get past, whipped out the tow rope and pulled away hoping she would have the sense not to crash into me, which she (fortunately) didn't. When we got her off the roundabout and opened the bonnet, we slapped on some jump leads. All was going well, until I saw the arcing in her engine compartment when she was turning it over.

I jumped out to shout and saw the HT leads sparking at the distributor cap. I disconnected, received thanks and got out of there as she was insistent on trying to start it despite my recommendations of callin the AA (I was also late for work).

I just hope she didn't have to call Trumpton on the way home.

Cheers, Aled.

[1] It's quite noticeable as it's got hi-vis jackets with "Mountain Rescue" all over them, and it lives in London.
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Aled

On or around Sun, 15 Aug 2004 19:57:29 +0000 (UTC), "Richard Brookman" enlightened us thusly:

and, if you're like me, you'll find it absolutely grin-making.

Lat summer I spent a day or so trundling around sister's BF's farm in his knackered SIII 88, which is about as basic as they come, and yet is still an absolute hoot to drive off-road.

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Austin Shackles

On or around Mon, 16 Aug 2004 04:40:40 +0100, Aled enlightened us thusly:

I've made a policy decision now, since there are so many discos on the road, that apart from people I know, I'm only going to wave at other "200" discos, while driving mine, and also others with bull bars and spotlamps and so on in other landies.

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Austin Shackles

Read the original post again :-)

My first Landy was an early 90, and round here (rural Pembrokeshire) not many people wave, as there are a lot about, usually driven by farmers rather than "fans". But whenever I visited Leeds, every Landy I saw gave a wave, often totally mental, as in "you too, eh?" Reminded me of my biking days.

Marks out of 10 for waveability, for the LRs I have owned:

Diesel 90 - rural 7, urban 9.5 ex-SAS Classic RR (full roll cage) - 6 Disco II - 0.5 RR P38a - 0 Series IIa (based on 24hrs driving) - 10. Got a really nice reaction from a very tidy 90 (hello M80 MUD) when we passed on a narrow lane.

Rich

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Richard Brookman

Austin Shackles wrote

Yup - went for a potter down to Newgale yesterday for a walk on the beach, and I was grinning like an idiot all the way. Any other wife would think I was having an affair, but Di knows me too well. I'm sitting here at work, and I can *almost* see it in the car park. If I move just a little, I can see the hardtop. I have looked out to check at least 10 times today. Last time I behaved like this, it was 5ft

2in, blonde, and in the Lower Sixth.

Rich

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Richard Brookman

"Andy.Smalley" wrote

I wondered about RR diffs (and fitting 7.50s), but as it is in quite good order and 95% unmodified, I would quite like to keep it original. I suppose diffs/wheels are 100% reversible, though, as long as I keep the old ones safe.

You haven't heard mine yet!

Ah, true wisdom.

Rich

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Richard Brookman

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