Nappy New Year to everyone. I'm a newbie so apologies if I've not followed the rules with this post.
I was the extremely proud owner of 'Bertie' - an ex-MOD Defender 90, 300Tdi until I came home from work on the morning of the 30th Dec to find that someone had stolen my landy around 0630 from my drive in Berkshire.
It's quite a distinctive vehicle - NATO tow hitch, and electrics, Balmoral green and an orange flashing light on the roof. The front two wheel were whiter than the rear as I'd recently (badly) repainted them. It's only done 11,500 miles and I was the first owner following it's illustrious military career.
Reg is S983 MFC (checked with the insurers that it's ok to post this). I'll offer a pretty decent cash reward to anyone who can help me get the landy back, though I'm fairly realistic about the chances of this happening.
I thought this would never happen, so if you're reading this and have a much loved landy on the drive without any extra security, please don't be as naive as I was and go and buy something to help stop it being stolen.
If you can help in any way, please PM me - I've been told there has been a particular spate of thefts of landys, so I guess please don't buy spared unless you're pretty confident where they came from - and please lock up your trusty landy and don't think "it won't happen to me"!
Safe and happy driving, Simon
I was the extremely proud owner of 'Bertie' - an ex-MOD Defender 90, 300Tdi until I came home from work on the morning of the 30th Dec to find that someone had stolen my landy around 0630 from my drive in Berkshire.
It's quite a distinctive vehicle - NATO tow hitch, and electrics, Balmoral green and an orange flashing light on the roof. The front two wheel were whiter than the rear as I'd recently (badly) repainted them. It's only done 11,500 miles and I was the first owner following it's illustrious military career.
Reg is S983 MFC (checked with the insurers that it's ok to post this). I'll offer a pretty decent cash reward to anyone who can help me get the landy back, though I'm fairly realistic about the chances of this happening.
I thought this would never happen, so if you're reading this and have a much loved landy on the drive without any extra security, please don't be as naive as I was and go and buy something to help stop it being stolen.
If you can help in any way, please PM me - I've been told there has been a particular spate of thefts of landys, so I guess please don't buy spared unless you're pretty confident where they came from - and please lock up your trusty landy and don't think "it won't happen to me"!
Safe and happy driving, Simon