Sorry mate, only just saw your post! All play for me, I did it at Luton Hoo in April. Went with my sister and we both had a good time. Would have been nice to do a full day instead of just the half that we did, but good fun none the less.
Hi thinks for the info. We're in a bit of a winter storm, won't be able to do much with the cable for a few days. If i'm not able to do any thing with it, I can at least keep the heater working as Mav suggests Ed
I read that then looked at the date then looked at your location. Aaaah gotcha. Australia. Seasons reversed. The innerwebs are an amazing thing! M
Mavette and I only did a half day and, like you, wished we'd booked a full day. There was talk of being able to take your own vehicle on the course which I'd be very tempted by!
I didn't hear anything about taking your own vehicle - that would be pretty popular I would think. In our case, my sister drives an X3 or an X5 so it likely wouldn't have got out of the gravel car park if it had been raining, but for plenty of others I think they would be surprised to know what their cars could do off road with the right driving instruction. I was secretly hoping that we were going to Eastnor just for the historical LR context, but when it comes down to it I'm sure the courses are all pretty similar. My sister was impressed enough that she is considering going back again with business clients, something our instructor said happens fairly often.
A Land Rover was on it. That itch just got scratched. After months of driving Series IIA's and III's I moved on. Gave up. It just wasn't going to work. Too slow, too expensive.... Blah Blah. Then a friend imported a RHD D90 and it got the juices going again. After some eBay searches, D-90.COM looking, CL looking, etc... I found a decent one right in the town I live in. 1994 NAS D90 with 71.5K miles. #772. Arles Blue color which I think was only available in 1994. It was bought brand new on April 20, 1995 in Pittsburgh, PA and moved to Colorado in December 1995 and registered here. Two other owners since then and all of them in Colorado based on the Carfax. No rear seats, no A/C, and no hard top. Just the way I wanted mine. Brand new tires and lots of service records over the years. Has a newish ARB front bumper and a X9 Super Winch which I am not familiar with. Has an aftermarket center console made of metal with a nice pad on top that I can't recall the name of. Everything works. The only defect is the top which is a full Bestop. It has a rip near the rear window and is frayed in a few spots. It should last a year or so but will research getting a newer top. Need more research to determine what's best. It also came with a Bikini top, winch remote, recovery equipment, etc.. Has the original owner's manual and a factory service manual. Has Old Man Emu shocks and steering damper which I'm not sure is good or bad. I need to ride in more D90's to get a feel for it. It feels a little "worn" to me. I absolutely love it. I've owned 5 Jeep Wranglers (own one 2006 TJ now) and this is just a bigger, badder, meaner, slower, probably thirstier and less reliable Jeep for me. My wife loves it as well. The sliding front windows are very cool. It's not fast, it's not slow. It will be a lot more fun to drive it around town and on back roads. It doesn't want to be driven really fast and that's the way I want it. Just fetched it home today. I'm officially a masochist. Questions: 1. How do you lock the back door? Mine doesn't have a lock. 2. What are the two red switches for? I can't figure them out yet. Winch related? I don't have fog lights (yet). Tom
I heard that Stallone asked a Range Rover outlet in the US for a freebie and was told he'd have to pay!
(UK) World record formation attempt tomorrow - if you fancy http://www.lro.com/news.php?sid=1279&page=1
Sharp truck! Congrats on the purchase. Your best option for a top would be a Badger. They're a bit on the expensive side, but you really won't find a nicer unit. Exmoor Trim is developing an NAS top, but I can't speak on quality or availability. Old Man Emu makes quality components. The 'worn' feeling is probably due to tired bushings, either on the shocks or in your radius arms. A complete bushing refresh will definitely give the truck a new feel. The rear door locks from the inside. Open the door, and right by the inside handle there will be a little switch that you can toggle to lock and unlock it. As for the switches, they're definitely not factory and could really go to anything. If I were to guess, I'd say the truck had a set of fog lights in a past life and the switches were never removed.
Never mind on the Texas deal. Anyways, it looks like I'll have another Rover by weeks end... ...and I'll be complaining about it here in a few months.
Right, so I come here seeking motivation. I'm the friend Infracaninophile mentioned above. Some of my first memories of awesome were of a friends' SIII that I learned to drive (when I was about 10) and took many, many trips around the place I grew up in. Every time I came close to buying one, though, I looked at all the limitations of the vehicle and couldn't pull the trigger. Too slow, too archaic, too expensive. Enter ADV. Pyndon and I have been thru a lot together (understatement) and when I started looking at rovers in the UK, I thought "I could sorta afford that!" and got him on the hunt. Earlier this year he bought one on my behalf and sent it over. I used Doug Crowther from Dividing Creek Imports, he was knowledgable and I'd recommend him. Here's the truck when I picked it up in Philadelphia: My mom flew up and we drove it down the Blue Ridge Parkway together to her house in Asheville. I dropped her off, and drove it back to CO. Did something like 3000 miles in 6 days, which I don't recommend to the faint of heart, in a vehicle that won't reliably exceed 50. I loved it. Pyn found me a sweet truck. I asked for a 110 with a 300TDI, and I got a 90 with a V8, but I'm not complaining. Perfect interior, barely any rust, and it came with an as-new roof tent, winch, tons of lights, etc. It's perfect for me, my plan is to take it to Baja this fall for an extended tour of beaches with my GF. For the geeks in this thread, the vitals are: 87 D90, R380/ 1.2, 3.5L from an old range rover with a newer range rover injection system installed, and the truck has a complete OME suspension underneath. Runs and drives great, goes 75 with a tailwind without revving much, but only goes 48 into that same wind. Having lived with it for a while, I'm tired of how slow it is. Add in a tendency to expectorate coolant (head gasket? dunno, it doesn't do it fast but it does it consistently!) and I decided a repower was in order. Enter my friend Jeff Summers of Harris Truck Parts. He had a good 2002 Disco motor sitting under a shelf, and I traded him some cash and it became mine. Then I found D&D Performance, who sent me a gasket set, camshaft (to drive the distributor), and various other bits I apparently will need, and now we come to the motivation part. The goal is to pull the motor on Thursday, swap parts from 3.5 to 4.0 on Friday, and reassemble next week. I found a shop willing to do the swap for $1k, but I decided that since my goal was to take this thing all kinds of off-the-beaten-path places, I wanted to do the work myself. So, I called in a favor with another friend, who runs a race/ vintage shop, and secured myself a bay for the project, along with guidance to get me unstuck in the (likely) event that I found myself outside my depth. Next post on Thursday. Wish me luck!
Let's see, you can ride, you ran THE race, and now this. I don't know you except through this sit, but I really don't think I like you. Great truck, congrats and good luck!