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Been upset today, after going into a quarry, with a few others (legally, I know the owner), the Land Rover boys descended, after slagging our tractors and sporties off, they (illegally) drove round and promptly got stuck.
We; on the other hand, drove round and did not get stuck where they were, after much humiliation, we decided we were better people and winched them out.
Just to add insult to injury, I asked them why Land Rover owners never got bad backs, they looked stunned and puzzled, and said they didn't know.
I replied it's because you're vehicles are so unreliable, and you spend so much time lying under them, your spines never have time to be anything other than straight.
Thought I would share that one.
Tossers
Good for you...the Fourtrack was voted best off roader for years. I had a Series 3 Landrover LWB, great, but drank the fuel and pulled yer arms to bits, seats were crap and with little adjustment and it weighed tons. Based as they were on Tractors, it would go anywhere as long as you had wads of cash for fuel and plenty of padding on the old aris.
The Daihatsu Fourtrak and Sportrak range were good, comfortable and ahead of their time, and good off roaders, not like some they produce for the school run these days. Every one to their own.
OLDMINIMAN
M J Young
Just taken our new Swift
Just taken our new Swift Challenger 400SE caravan (955 kg all up) down to, and around, Devon for a week last week in our 1995 Sportrak with 88k on the clock. (OK I've fitted spring assisters!)
Between Bristol and Exeter I saw 2 x Freelanders and 1 x Disco all in the hardshoulder with bonnets up, and another Disco stopped on the northbound for no apparent reason. All were 54 plate or younger.
'Nuff said.
Dave with a Sporty
Dave with a Sporty
Broked Doon, or doom
Does the old adage spring to mind, it is irrelevant how much money you spend, how much off road preperation you undertake, if it breaks it is going nowhere.