For all of their, let’s call them ‘characteristics’ 🤭, I always loved my Defender(s), this one was my third and last one somewhere along the Old Coach Road in Cumbria on New Years Day 2009.

 

 

 

 

20 minutes ago, Modders said:

For all of their, let’s call them ‘characteristics’ 🤭, I always loved my Defender(s), this one was my third and last one somewhere along the Old Coach Road in Cumbria on New Years Day 2009.

 

 

 

 

 

We used to get SWB and LWB Defenders on highway construction sites years ago - the SWB ones were great at doing 4 wheel drifts out of / or into our site compounds and there was always a scrap for the keys first thing in the morning...

 

Not sure you'd get them now due to the costs of them...

2 minutes ago, skomaz said:

 

 

Not sure you'd get them now due to the costs of them...

Yeah the price of them now is horrific! 
 

I had a 90 for a few years in between having the two 110’s, the 90 was great fun, especially off road or greenlaning but the 110 was the far more practical of the two. 
 

I fitted a GKN overdrive to my first 110 and that transformed the ride comfort on longer drives.

 

It's a long time ago now but I recall getting stopped in the LWB by a driver of a 17t wagon with a flat battery and being asked to give it a tow start.  I was reticent at first but he was insistent so we hooked it up to the land rovers tow bar I stuck it in low ratio 4x4 and set off...   It got the wagon started no problem.

I do miss it on the admittedly few times we get snow, it was great to go out and ‘play’.

 

I remember going out one year for a drive in the snow across Cannock Chase and a couple in a Mazda something-or-other flagged me down asking if I could tow them out of a drainage ditch at the side of the road. I asked them why they thought I had a tow strop and they said “you drive a Defender, of course you’ll have a tow rope”  😂

 

Looking for something else and I happened across a photo from early 2006 of my 1999 B5 Passat Estate:

 

 

1.9 TDI (AFN) auto. Six CD changer in the boot (Gamma?).

 

Awww 

 

Gaz

14 minutes ago, Gaz said:

Looking for something else and I happened across a photo from early 2006 of my 1999 B5 Passat Estate:

 

 

1.9 TDI (AFN) auto. Six CD changer in the boot (Gamma?).

 

Awww 

 

Gaz

 

Lovely motor there, Gaz. One just like it kicking about my way. Think I have a photograph of it somewhere.

14 hours ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

Lovely motor there, Gaz.

 

It was indeed.  Sold it to a mate after I bought the 9-5 HOT Aero.  Drove it several years after I sold it, and found myself wondering what on earth I was thinking to get rid of it.  Dimwit! 🙄

 

Many happy memories - drove it up to western Scotland (Acharacle) and did the 620 miles journey on one tank, fully loaded up with a family of four.  Think it's the only car I've owned that was capable of that 😎.  Pre-PD too so had the simpler fuelling system that'd run on anything vaguely oily (well you know what I mean).

 

G

I know what you mean gaz my shogun used to run on anything oily ,if you were behind me it had the scent of a chip shop 😂

57 minutes ago, Mickvrs220 said:

I know what you mean gaz my shogun used to run on anything oily ,if you were behind me it had the scent of a chip shop 😂

 

Mate of mine had a Chinese-flavoured Volvo 850 TDI (the VW engined kind). Got the oil from the local takeaway for 30p.

4 minutes ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

 

Mate of mine had a Chinese-flavoured Volvo 850 TDI (the VW engined kind). Got the oil from the local takeaway for 30p.

I like that "chinese flavoured volvo"😂

We had a Volvo 343 that came with a French flavoured Renault 5 engine.  Tbf it was a good little engine.

^^^ I loved my one. I had it for 2 years, no idea what replaced it, i think my Strada 75 Automatic.

343, Blue, Automatic / Variomatic.  Stirling Winter Remould tyres, RWD, virtually unstoppable.   1980 / W reg.

My first car after coming to the UK was a Volvo 365, with the Volvo 2 litre engine from the 2-series. Considered that to be a lot better than the Renault-engined 340 we had later. 

26 minutes ago, Rooted said:

^^^ I loved my one.

 

Ours was a 1983 model.  We'd changed from a 1.2 Starlet because our Daughter's pushchair wouldn't fit in the back.  Only real problem we had was the drivers door stuck, closed, when Mrs Gaz was in it and eight months pregnant.  She wasn't best pleased.  It always felt very solid and safe 👍

Found pictures in another thread of my 'Worky' van which was actually fitted out as a camper and could be just parked up over night where there were other vans but 'No camping'.

& the bikes & Glensee and Mar Lodge.