Hello folks
I've been a discreet landy lover for some time now and thought it was about time I came out - so here I am!
All my life I wanted a defender having grown up on a farm in Somerset and been surrounded by tractors and farm vehicles throughout my childhood but it took 42 years and a diagnosis of leukaemia for me to take the plunge! The day I had my bone marrow biopsy in 2015 I was in so much pain when we left the hospital - and unable to walk - that I asked my girlfriend to take me straight to the local 4x4 specialist where, having eyed up a landy a few days before I decided to buy it there and then for cash. I have not regretted it for a nanosecond since, even though it has cost me a small fortune in work - replacement rear cross member, shocks all round, discs n pads, underseal, new clutch, blah, blah, blah but I don't care 'cos I love it!
It is, a 1996 Defender 90 300tdi with fixed Masai tinted rear windows, aluminium roof rack and Hannibal roof tent oh, and 250,000 miles on the clock. Furthermore, when the clutch went on this middle aged lovely I thought I needed a better motorway car so went out and bought a 2010 Freelander 2 HSE TD4. Its well stacked with equipment and like gliding along the motorway in a beautifully upholstered leather seat. I am obviously not a monogamous landy lover but they'll just have to live with it.
My girlfriend calls the defender my "man-cave on wheels". She's right, it is just that. Perfect.
I've been doing some tinkering recently so have a couple of questions which I will post in the right place in a bit. In the mean time I can't wait to meet some like-minded people.
Cheers all
I've been a discreet landy lover for some time now and thought it was about time I came out - so here I am!
All my life I wanted a defender having grown up on a farm in Somerset and been surrounded by tractors and farm vehicles throughout my childhood but it took 42 years and a diagnosis of leukaemia for me to take the plunge! The day I had my bone marrow biopsy in 2015 I was in so much pain when we left the hospital - and unable to walk - that I asked my girlfriend to take me straight to the local 4x4 specialist where, having eyed up a landy a few days before I decided to buy it there and then for cash. I have not regretted it for a nanosecond since, even though it has cost me a small fortune in work - replacement rear cross member, shocks all round, discs n pads, underseal, new clutch, blah, blah, blah but I don't care 'cos I love it!
It is, a 1996 Defender 90 300tdi with fixed Masai tinted rear windows, aluminium roof rack and Hannibal roof tent oh, and 250,000 miles on the clock. Furthermore, when the clutch went on this middle aged lovely I thought I needed a better motorway car so went out and bought a 2010 Freelander 2 HSE TD4. Its well stacked with equipment and like gliding along the motorway in a beautifully upholstered leather seat. I am obviously not a monogamous landy lover but they'll just have to live with it.
My girlfriend calls the defender my "man-cave on wheels". She's right, it is just that. Perfect.
I've been doing some tinkering recently so have a couple of questions which I will post in the right place in a bit. In the mean time I can't wait to meet some like-minded people.
Cheers all
