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Post by unclebob on Sept 17, 2021 7:54:00 GMT
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Post by firemac on Sept 17, 2021 10:39:00 GMT
I have never understood people throwing money at a Defender to try to make it halfway decent. From the day an uncle gave me a lift in his Series something-or-other I’ve considered LR owners to be masochists of the first order. Surprising to say, I hate the bloody things. IMHO the only way to make these abortions passably acceptable is to sell them and buy something decent.👍 |
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Post by charliefarlie on Sept 17, 2021 17:08:31 GMT
Quite a tool but who would want rich Brit on the back of any car ? Seats look like Recaros taken from a Vauxhall Corsa … It’s a common conversion in the VW world to take those seats and re trim them in the GTI chequer cloth.
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Post by anchorman on Sept 18, 2021 13:13:00 GMT
I have never understood people throwing money at a Defender to try to make it halfway decent. From the day an uncle gave me a lift in his Series something-or-other I’ve considered LR owners to be masochists of the first order. Surprising to say, I hate the bloody things. IMHO the only way to make these abortions passably acceptable is to sell them and buy something decent.👍 100% agree. It astonishes me what they bring. All I would say is they are iconic like red phone boxes and Routemaster buses but they are a mechanical disaster. I drove a mate’s series II and the steering wheel was that big to maul the numerous linkages around that I kept taking the skin off my knuckles on the crude window slides. Conversation was impossible thanks to the din and those were the good points. |
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Post by charliefarlie on Sept 18, 2021 16:30:13 GMT
I have never understood people throwing money at a Defender to try to make it halfway decent. From the day an uncle gave me a lift in his Series something-or-other I’ve considered LR owners to be masochists of the first order. Surprising to say, I hate the bloody things. IMHO the only way to make these abortions passably acceptable is to sell them and buy something decent.👍 100% agree. It astonishes me what they bring. All I would say is they are iconic like red phone boxes and Routemaster buses but they are a mechanical disaster. I drove a mate’s series II and the steering wheel was that big to maul the numerous linkages around that I kept taking the skin off my knuckles on the crude window slides. Conversation was impossible thanks to the din and those were the good points. The older farmers up here love those Defenders the younger ones like those double cab Mitsubishi’s…… ive only ever once driven an old land rover and it wasn’t so much as drive it it was fight it…. Steering turned six inches either way before the thing actually changed direction. The new Defenders are taking off big style in rural Herefordshire…. I didn’t think they would but there are quite a few round here now. 👍👍 |
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Post by davrav on Sept 18, 2021 16:42:13 GMT
Defender ownership must be some kind of self flagellation......
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Post by charliefarlie on Sept 18, 2021 18:20:59 GMT
Defender ownership must be some kind of self flagellation...... They ole boy who tends the sheep in the big field opposite us has an old defender. Tailgate is missing but his two Collies sit in the back on straw…… I bet he wouldn’t part with that old motor for a kings randsome….. Im not sure but I don’t think he’s into detailing 😳😳😳 |
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Post by clarki on Sept 22, 2021 17:26:42 GMT
Think it's a toss up between a Defender and a Smart car for the worst car i've ever driven - and i've driven a Zastava  |
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Post by Mb2t on Sept 22, 2021 21:31:17 GMT
Think it's a toss up between a Defender and a Smart car for the worst car i've ever driven - and i've driven a Zastava Have you driven a Yugo...? |
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Post by davrav on Sept 22, 2021 21:38:57 GMT
Knock, knock………
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Post by Rambler on Oct 7, 2021 12:48:05 GMT
Looks bloomin great !
But... that's it.
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Post by firemac on Oct 7, 2021 13:41:46 GMT
Looks bloomin great ! But... that's it. “Lipstick on a pig” comes to mind…..😕 |
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Post by DjRav on Oct 10, 2021 18:23:31 GMT
Or a polished Turd
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Post by unclebob on Oct 10, 2021 19:41:11 GMT
Think its looks takes me back to my youth with a Tonka toy truck 😎😎
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