ShoelessSmith
New Member
Hello, it appears that I have made a bit of a faux-pas earlier by posting a message on the forums without introducing myself.
I live just outside of Snowdonia and bought the current Land Rover, a Freelander 1, for the simple reason I wanted something to go up the lane to the cottage. I'm not into off-roading, except when my less than impressive driving skills and my research into the ways and means of going around the new Penamser roundabout in fifth, takes me off the tarmac.
The Freelander is a little bit townie for me but it's great to drive and has a good enough clearance to get us home.
I've had four other Landies in the past. The first was a Series II bought somewhere in Northumberland and I took it to Norway, where I was living at the time. Six months later the gearbox started to go. As I couldn't afford to fix it I had to sell it on cheap to a bonkers bloke who wanted to pay far more that it was worth. So, in a spirit of Care in the Community I took the money and ran. Well, he wasn't going to drive after me, was he?
Fast forward a decade or so later and I found myself living here and wanted something to scrump wood in. So I found an old ex-military Landie which was born in Libya, or at least lived out there. The trouble was that it was 24 volts and was a pain to maintain, especially the electrics. One day it caught fire which was, all in all, a relief.
Then I decided what I really needed was something reliable. So, instead I bought a Series I which was great except that it would backfire after two minutes, stall after five and then conk out after fifteen. I had no end of trouble with that one and then it just rusted away. I have never seen a Land Rover vanish in a pile of bits of orange so fast.
So then I vowed never to get another Land Rover until this one came into my view. What was there not to love? It was black, tinted windows and it looked all the earth like a pimp's ride. Neatly forgetting the fact that I live in a very rural area of North Wales, of course.
So, that's the thing that I am driving now. There's some issues with the back window deciding to go down at random intervals. And the alarm is good, isn't it? At a drop of a hat it would decide to sing out if it felt left alone in a supermarket carpark. The other week I saw a family gathered around their Freelander at Aldi's trying to stop theirs from continually shouting out "I've been broken into!".
The Freelander is useful for taking industrial sized deposits to the bottle bank and generally for dragging things around. At the moment I am looking for a roof rack arrangement so that I can get the kayak to the coast.
Anyway, hello.
I live just outside of Snowdonia and bought the current Land Rover, a Freelander 1, for the simple reason I wanted something to go up the lane to the cottage. I'm not into off-roading, except when my less than impressive driving skills and my research into the ways and means of going around the new Penamser roundabout in fifth, takes me off the tarmac.
The Freelander is a little bit townie for me but it's great to drive and has a good enough clearance to get us home.
I've had four other Landies in the past. The first was a Series II bought somewhere in Northumberland and I took it to Norway, where I was living at the time. Six months later the gearbox started to go. As I couldn't afford to fix it I had to sell it on cheap to a bonkers bloke who wanted to pay far more that it was worth. So, in a spirit of Care in the Community I took the money and ran. Well, he wasn't going to drive after me, was he?
Fast forward a decade or so later and I found myself living here and wanted something to scrump wood in. So I found an old ex-military Landie which was born in Libya, or at least lived out there. The trouble was that it was 24 volts and was a pain to maintain, especially the electrics. One day it caught fire which was, all in all, a relief.
Then I decided what I really needed was something reliable. So, instead I bought a Series I which was great except that it would backfire after two minutes, stall after five and then conk out after fifteen. I had no end of trouble with that one and then it just rusted away. I have never seen a Land Rover vanish in a pile of bits of orange so fast.
So then I vowed never to get another Land Rover until this one came into my view. What was there not to love? It was black, tinted windows and it looked all the earth like a pimp's ride. Neatly forgetting the fact that I live in a very rural area of North Wales, of course.
So, that's the thing that I am driving now. There's some issues with the back window deciding to go down at random intervals. And the alarm is good, isn't it? At a drop of a hat it would decide to sing out if it felt left alone in a supermarket carpark. The other week I saw a family gathered around their Freelander at Aldi's trying to stop theirs from continually shouting out "I've been broken into!".
The Freelander is useful for taking industrial sized deposits to the bottle bank and generally for dragging things around. At the moment I am looking for a roof rack arrangement so that I can get the kayak to the coast.
Anyway, hello.
