Mog & Daisy have arrived! :D (with pictures!)

Thor1950 · Jun 11, 2015

Turboman said:
They didn't actually copy the jeep, which is why a landy don't look same as a Willys. What they did do was measure a jeep chassis all over before, err............designing theirs!

The design for the original Land Rover vehicle was started in 1947 by Maurice Wilks, chief designer at the Rover Company, on his farm in Newborough, Anglesey.[12] It is said that he was inspired by an American World War II Jeep that he used one summer at his holiday home in Wales.[13][14] The first Land Rover prototype, later nicknamed 'Centre Steer', was built on a Jeep chassis and axles

Turboman · Jun 11, 2015

Thor1950 said:
The design for the original Land Rover vehicle was started in 1947 by Maurice Wilks, chief designer at the Rover Company, on his farm in Newborough, Anglesey.[12] It is said that he was inspired by an American World War II Jeep that he used one summer at his holiday home in Wales.[13][14] The first Land Rover prototype, later nicknamed 'Centre Steer', was built on a Jeep chassis and axles

Yes, I have been well aware of that for thirty years, and I have met some of the people involved, though sadly not the Wilks brothers themselves.

They were not inspired by the Jeep, MW said to his brother " if we cant build a better vehicle than that, we shouldn't be in the motor trade"

What they particularly disliked was the parts availability, to be fair, not the vehicle itself. to get spark plugs they had to buy a crate of 144 plugs from US war dept.

But the chassis used on the production models were homegrown, although based on a Jeep chassis.

ER1C · Jun 11, 2015

:focus::focus::focus:

You chaps sure know how to give a warm welcome eh !

Turboman · Jun 11, 2015

ER1C said:
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You chaps sure know how to give a warm welcome eh !

I thought that was pretty good by lz standards!

Only one request to get em out, and that was edited out quicksmart!

blue beasty · Jun 11, 2015

Copy and paste trolling on an intro thread? Really? :doh:

West Slope Rover · Jun 11, 2015

blue beasty said:
Copy and paste trolling on an intro thread? Really? :doh:

I've copied nothing and ate the paste ages ago.

blue beasty · Jun 11, 2015

West Slope Rover said:
I've copied nothing and ate the paste ages ago.

Possibly but some eejits [12] just can't help themselves [13].....

Do you mean paste or patè?

DiscoPol · Jun 11, 2015

Turboman said:
I thought that was pretty good by lz standards!

Only one request to get em out, and that was edited out quicksmart!

Oi I edited nothing, I simply hid it with intent, badly it seems as turbograss gave the game away 😣 so quickly.

I feel ashamed to do it but it's become so pc round here now a little faux misogyny always lightens the mood [emoji5] [emoji1]

Turboman · Jun 11, 2015

DiscoPol said:
Oi I edited nothing, I simply hid it with intent, badly it seems as turbograss gave the game away &#55357;&#56867; so quickly.

Didn't name names, no-one wold have known if yu hadn't said

DiscoPol · Jun 11, 2015

Turboman said:
Didn't name names, no-one wold have known if yu hadn't said [emoji14]

Is that my own petard I'm being hoisted by?

blue beasty · Jun 11, 2015

DiscoPol said:
Oi I edited nothing, I simply hid it with intent, badly it seems as turbograss gave the game away 😣 so quickly.

I feel ashamed to do it but it's become so pc round here now a little faux misogyny always lightens the mood [emoji5] [emoji1]

Blaming it on PC when in reality you're terrified of invoking the fury of our pack of marauding wimminis sounds more likely

West Slope Rover · Jun 11, 2015

blue beasty said:
Possibly but some eejits [12] just can't help themselves [13].....

Do you mean paste or patè?

Paste. When I was a younger version of myself, I was much smaller but as slow as I am today, I would eat the paste at school. Why make paste taste like spearmint if it's not meant to be eaten, right?

DiscoPol · Jun 11, 2015

blue beasty said:
Blaming it on PC when in reality you're terrified of invoking the fury of our pack of marauding wimminis sounds more likely [emoji14]

Im relatively safe, I'm on the continent and we know they aren't allowed more than a few feet away from the kitchen sink.

You do know why women don't ski, don't you?

blue beasty · Jun 11, 2015

West Slope Rover said:
Paste. When I was a younger version of myself, I was much smaller but as slow as I am today, I would eat the paste at school. Why make paste taste like spearmint if it's not meant to be eaten, right?

And why call cattle feed 'cow cake'?

That's just asking for trouble and besides its far too gritty to be cake

West Slope Rover · Jun 11, 2015

blue beasty said:
And why call cattle feed 'cow cake'?

That's just asking for trouble and besides its far too gritty to be cake

Now you've got me reminiscing about my mum's cow cake.

Rosie · Jun 11, 2015

Hello Mog & Daisy! Welcome to lz. Ignore this bunch of lunatics, especially Thor

Your defender looks lovely

I'm coming to the lakes with my landy and dog in September for a week - it looks amazing!!

FMog · Jun 11, 2015

Rosie said:
Hello Mog & Daisy! Welcome to lz. Ignore this bunch of lunatics, especially Thor

Your defender looks lovely

I'm coming to the lakes with my landy and dog in September for a week - it looks amazing!!

Have you never been? Make sure you make it the West Lakes

(The real Lakes!)

Lakes Rob · Jun 11, 2015

Hello and welcome!
Gibsons in Kendal is the place to go. Bit of a trek from Wasdale but they know their stuff!

FMog · Jun 11, 2015

Lakes Rob said:
Hello and welcome!
Gibsons in Kendal is the place to go. Bit of a trek from Wasdale but they know their stuff!

Thanks! I contacted Fultons in Workington, they couldn't even weld me any panels on bottom of the doors, also prices seemed a tad steep

£250 for new timing belt and fitting
£450 for new clutch and fitting
£350-400 for all round oils and filters (that price better be including the diff etc

)

Maybe those prices aren't that bad at all?

I'll give Gibsons a call tomorrow

Turboman · Jun 11, 2015

FMog said:
Thanks! I contacted Fultons in Workington, they couldn't even weld me any panels on bottom of the doors, also prices seemed a tad steep

£250 for new timing belt and fitting
£450 for new clutch and fitting
£350-400 for all round oils and filters (that price better be including the diff etc )

Maybe those prices aren't that bad at all?

I'll give Gibsons a call tomorrow

Probably about right for the belt and clutch, depending on quality of work.

Sounds loads too much for the oils and filters on a Tdi!

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