just because!
I can't imagine ANYTHING else. I have ALWAYS had a series, usually a few at any given time, there is just something addictive about them. THey are so damned robust, so absolutely unbreakable, so built to last and last and last. I love the old Landy slogan - "Land Rover, First because Land Rover lasts" and it does! And you know what I absolutely LOVE . . . the look on the faces of 80 thousand dollar Toyota Landcruiser owners as I pull them out of the soft sand with a 1948 buket of tin and bolts. - PRICELESS. THey can't comprehend that something that looks like it cost a hundred bucks from the scrapyard can be so damned capable!.
It's great especially when you have some snotty city boy with his polished Cruiser, THOUSANDS of dollars of lights, bullbar, racks and a 3 thousand dollar winch that has never been used because he hasn't got a fecking clue, His high maintenance missus alongside him made up like a Geisha Girl in her nightclubbing gear trying to be 'seen' by all and sundry and they are stone motherless STUCK, BELLIED OUT AND FARKED. All because he assumes that because it cost a years salary it can do anything!!!
Then the real fun starts!, You watch as he nonchalantly climbs out, has a quick not so discreet peep around to see if anyone saw (hahaha) and than tries to look unfussed as though it's not a drama. He farts around for a half hour or so all the while digging it in further, his MONSTER truck tyres no use at all except to keep on digging!! (well he still has 40psi in em!!) Meanwhile the glamour has shrunk into the seat to now AVOID being seen!! .
Cue stage left, BATTERED old '48 landy with no paint, no doors, no windscreen, no roof and a 6 foot 3 shaven headed scruffy looking bloke that looks like his head has broken a few fists over the years at the wheel (me!) .
At first snotty city boy puffs out the chest and its a case of "Ah it's all right mate, yeah I'll get it out....... gee bit soft though isn't it" - but after another 15 minutes of clueless blundering he concedes the need for help, albeit tempered by "what with THAT thing?" as you offer recovery!!
Yeah cobber, with THAT thing, get some air out of those boots, down to about 15 pounds..........blank looks.. do it for him!!. 10 minutes later the bucket of bolts recovers the shiny toy, no damage done, except to his ego!!!! and ... ANOTHER T with a cross through it on the front guard (sorry..wing) Fighter ace style....
Just for interests sake it now has....
9 T's - 6 Cruisers and 3 Hilux
14 N's - 9 Patrols 4 Navara's and a 720B
4 H's - 3 Holden Jackaroos and 1 Rodeo
7 J's - Cheap Cherokees
5 S's - 4 Suzuki Vitara's and 1 Sierra (like the Rhino in the UK)
1 L - Lada Niva
1 VW !!!!!
And you know what, how many of the 'above' has ever had to recover a LANDY ????????
THAT'S why I love series!!!!!
Kris
