Peterborough 4x4 Club Vice Chairman, Newsletter Editor and Webmaster (how much more....)
3.5V8 100" Hybrid, now LPG converted Part owner of 1976 S3 LWT, Fully restored, ready for sale! Make me an offer! Suzuki SJ410 (Fiancée's) 3" lift kit fitted, body shell now restored and mounted on chassis, waiting on a windscreen and MOT Series 3 88" Rolling chassis...what to do next
1993 200 TDi Discovery (the Pug 106 is dead, long live the Pug)
I take your point, although if that were to happen, I doubt if Land Rover as a business would last a year. If it wasn't for the Disco, and latterly the Freebie (the vast majority of which I would guess are never used off road), LR would have gone down the pan years ago.
On or around Thu, 23 Sep 2004 19:39:04 +0000 (UTC), "Richard Brookman" enlightened us thusly:
's all just more smoke and mirrors, anyway. summat else fro the plebs to focus their attention on rather than criticise the govermint for making a pig's ear of things.
You're quite right. The Argentinians don't seem likely to oblige them by invading this time around, so they are having to make something up. Foxes and 4x4's are the bandwagons at the moment. After the considerable success (ahem) of the handgun ban, it has been decided that banning responsible driving of 4x4's will stop people from driving them in a way which is already illegal, or worse, annoying to people who don't like them.
If we carry on long enough, we will all be legally required to ramble, cuddle foxes and grow beards to fit in with the norm. On the plus side, we will then only have people with stupid voices and big teeth to victimise, and the Janet Street-Snorter will have to be culled with hounds.
I did indeed mean 4x4. "Converting" - interesting phrase for jamming the difflock on and removing the front propshaft, or possibly starting a market for FWHs for Discos. (Only two wheels being driven ossifer, it's a 2WD).
Of course, with the swingeing laws this bunch of clowns keep chucking out they could end up getting rid of a lot more cars than they were planning on.
All Subarus for example.
Any modern performance super sports.
I don't know about anybody else, but I'd personally support a separate license classification for offroad capable vehicles. It would certainly remove a lot of the muppets who get us bad names from the hills.
Come to think of it, howsabout a separate classification for any car over
1900cc Only achievable once you have held a clean licens for 3 years and are over 21. Yet again, would stop a lot of the dickheads I see around who get their licenses and go and get a 15 year old 520 BMW and drop the suspension, paint it electric pink and go around deafening people.
And a requirement for a council issued public events license for any car audio system rated to deliver more than 75W of bass.
On or around Fri, 24 Sep 2004 10:43:28 +0100, Mother enlightened us thusly:
sorry, shed joke. There used to be blank messages from "Harry Marsh", we never found out who he was, now any time someone posts a blank message...
speaking of 'tother "Harry", you heard anything more? 's all gone very quiet here, bar from a letter a bit back from solicitors who apparently were representing him, requesting information I didn't have.
Ah, 't reminds me, I've several thousand unread posting a la sheddi to mark as read ;-)
Currently being paid for by the rest of us to have a nice secure holiday. Long may it continue - at least summat positive is comin' from mi taxes at last...
On or around Fri, 24 Sep 2004 13:29:36 +0100, Mother enlightened us thusly:
last I heard was that he was awaiting trial, wondered if there was any further news, that's all. I was aware of his secure holidaying. Not seen anything in the local rag, but then again, you can't actually rely on the local rag to print what you want to read...
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