RE: was Schadenfreude now Land-Rover re-visited

["Brian G. Reynolds" <brian.g.reynolds@xxxxxxx>]

A man after my own heart!

Driving around the other night and I saw a 101 for sale....YES...if it
still
has the V8 in it.....I have always wanted one of these when I had the money
for one there were none available, I then tried for the Stage 1 V8
(remember
those?) but they were not available so I had to settle on a Range-Rover
which turned out probably to be a better buy as I was posted to Germany and
was crossing the Channel quite regularly, would not have been as practical
to be driving a 101. they were life savers in the Falklands, well the one's
with the mid mount winch were....sex on wheels.
I think the 101 was one of the few military vehicles that the forces
actually liked!
Mind you the HMMWVEE (or what ever it is called) looks quite fun!

B.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Morgan [mailto:steve@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 20 September 2001 23:27
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Schadenfreude
>
>
> That's why I love my Landy. It's crude, slow, corners like a
supertanker,
> leaks like a seive (if there's no water in the footwells, then it's
not
> rained for a fortnight and if there's no puddle of oil under it,
there's
> none left), has absolutely no mod cons and is the most
> spectacularly fun car
> that I've ever had the privilege to drive.
>
> I opted out of the 'New V6 Omega' every 18 months company car
> scheme and now
> run my Landy plus a motorbike and don't regret it for a minute.
>
> --
> Steve Morgan
> 2001 Deauville & 1986 V8 110
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Brian G. Reynolds [mailto:brian.g.reynolds@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 20 September 2001 21:51
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Schadenfreude
> >
> >
> > Good one, do modern car owners have "fun" like we used
too? I
> > think not, the
> > modern young-un's can afford much more expensive cars and the
money is
> > readily available and readily taken by insurance companies!
> >
> > Our era of cars were no where near as powerful as they are
> > today? I really
> > do think the emphasis is on speed instead of looks, I drove
> > my Range-Rover
> > with no roof for about 3 years, cold but bloody good fun!
> >
> > Hate cars now, been driving 21 years without a crash and
> > still get clobbered
> > by the insurance companies!
> >
> > Mind you, company van now :-)))))
> >
> > B.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Stuart Grimshaw [mailto:stuart@xxxxxxx]
> > > Sent: 20 September 2001 21:44
> > > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > > Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Schadenfreude
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thursday 20 September 2001 21:11 pm, Keith Doxey wrote:
> > > > I once had a BT van (HA Viva) where the windscreen
leaked
> > badly. This
> > > > resulted in the drivers footwell filling with water.
> > >
> > > My last car did that, after I took it to a garage to get
fixed,
> > > after ages
> > > trying to find where the water was coming from I found that
the
> > > door rubber
> > > had been sabotaged. There was a little hole that looked a
little
> > > too clean to
> > > be a perished hole, right under the hole that was supposed
> > to be there.
> > >
> > > Also, I had a mushroom grow in one of my old cars. A huge
thing
> > > it was, and
> > > one day when my Mum got in the back, it started spitting
> > spores at her :-)
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > >  Stuart Grimshaw <stuart@xxxxxxx>
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> > >
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