What gave you the bug?

Antichrist said:

Probably the one near you, it's "up north" About 6 miles from Boulmer.
Or to keep the Rover content, the one where Mastora is.

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Tremendous, it's a small world!
I am a regular customer at Mastora. They know me well

I used to play a lot with them at school - a 90, some Discos, 101 as well as some bigger toys we were lucky enough to have. We'd go every year to a local P&P place with them, though at that time I didn't think about getting my own (apart from occasional thoughts about a 101, which I utterly loved). Also we always used to have various Series LRs at home until I was probably 7 or 8 - some of my earliest memories of cars include learning about bump starting in a Land Rover on a hill just for fun on the way home and standing next to a Series poking the steel dimpled pedals.

Then recently I needed my own car and was also thinking about what best to use for the development of a microcontrolled woodgas generator. Something with a largish petrol engine fitted the bill nicely, plus a LR has a nice flat back end to bolt it onto without making holes in the boot of a 'normal' car. Now a few green lanes and lots of new parts has cemented my bond with it and my soft spot for LRs has softened further.

Just recovered this from my parents.

I had it as a bairn!

My 1st full time job after leaving uni was a sales man in a local landcover dealer in Aberystwyth where I went to Uni. I was hooked on the oval the minute I sat in one. That was back in 2001. Only now have I been able to justify the running costs of the TD5 and bought a 53 plate just 1 month ago. Yearning to get out and do some green laning but finding local groups is difficult and I am not confident enough to do it on my own in a std vehicle.
Fingers crossed it will happen soon. Anyone near Newcastle Emlyn who knows of any groups or lanes I would love to hear from you