Doodle
Well-Known Member
By all rights, I should be driving a product of Solihull - my 4x4-owning friends are all die-hard green oval people. But for the available budget, we hit a problem.
Defender/110 - too small in the cabin
Mk1 Disco - invariably a nasty rotbox
Rangie Classic - you pay over the odds for a good one, the others have been run in the ground
P38 - Well, I actually want to get where I'm going. And if I get there, I'd like to get back again too.
And so end up at the beginning of our tale - with the acquisition of a LC 95.
It's green, and the badge is oval-shaped. I'm claiming I misheard what they were saying
The intention is to prep it for general off-road fun, but in the short term I'm readying it for the MAC 4x4 next year. It came with a stack of provenance, full service history and with all appearances of having led an easy life. Everything worked, nothing was broken or missing and it was clean and tidy. Sold to the man with the bundle of 50s.
First job on the list was to sort out the rubber. Out with a set of part worn Grandtreks, in with some slightly larger Grabber AT2s.
A Safari Snorkel crossed my path for naff all money and was snapped up. It's probably slightly overkill, but it's a cheap insurance policy if I get a little over-enthusiastic with water crossings. It also means that I can avoid the massive traffic jams on the A339 roadworks by taking the shortcut through the ford. It's the same ford that claimed the judge earlier this year and gets pretty deep, probably pushing the limits of the standard wading ability.
For some reason I had a bit of a mental block when it came to drilling into a perfectly serviceable wing, so my dad did for me.
I'd started to sort out the lighting with some standoff plates and spotlight steadies to mount up a set of Hella Luminators
but after last weekend it looks like the plans will be changing a little. Stopped by Dave Bowyer's stand at the Newbury 4x4 show and ended up walking away with one of his TDS 9.5 winches, and a contact for a prototype winch bumper that shouldn't cost the earth.
Defender/110 - too small in the cabin
Mk1 Disco - invariably a nasty rotbox
Rangie Classic - you pay over the odds for a good one, the others have been run in the ground
P38 - Well, I actually want to get where I'm going. And if I get there, I'd like to get back again too.
And so end up at the beginning of our tale - with the acquisition of a LC 95.
It's green, and the badge is oval-shaped. I'm claiming I misheard what they were saying
The intention is to prep it for general off-road fun, but in the short term I'm readying it for the MAC 4x4 next year. It came with a stack of provenance, full service history and with all appearances of having led an easy life. Everything worked, nothing was broken or missing and it was clean and tidy. Sold to the man with the bundle of 50s.First job on the list was to sort out the rubber. Out with a set of part worn Grandtreks, in with some slightly larger Grabber AT2s.
A Safari Snorkel crossed my path for naff all money and was snapped up. It's probably slightly overkill, but it's a cheap insurance policy if I get a little over-enthusiastic with water crossings. It also means that I can avoid the massive traffic jams on the A339 roadworks by taking the shortcut through the ford. It's the same ford that claimed the judge earlier this year and gets pretty deep, probably pushing the limits of the standard wading ability.
For some reason I had a bit of a mental block when it came to drilling into a perfectly serviceable wing, so my dad did for me.
I'd started to sort out the lighting with some standoff plates and spotlight steadies to mount up a set of Hella Luminators
but after last weekend it looks like the plans will be changing a little. Stopped by Dave Bowyer's stand at the Newbury 4x4 show and ended up walking away with one of his TDS 9.5 winches, and a contact for a prototype winch bumper that shouldn't cost the earth.
everything gets modified, it's just varies how far it goes. It's sharing driveway space with an old AMG'd Merc SL and a tweaked Ducati Multistrada I commute every day on. Even my current workhorse (Merc E-class estate) has a hefty install under the boot floor.
