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Andy.Smalley
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"Richard Brookman" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
> Sitting here toasting (Safeway Tempranillo, not bad) the arrival of a new
> baby to the Brookman household.
>
> I went to Essex (630 mile round trip) yesterday to fetch the new addition.
> A slight navigational error where I completely missed the turning to the M25
> had me dragging a trailer and S2a round the North Circular at 5pm on a
> Saturday. It was fine, but then I did have my eyes shut most of the time.
> Passed a *very* bad accident on the M11, where a small yellow sports hatch
> (Max Power style) had come to grief and ended on the hard shoulder. No
> other vehicle involved, but horrible skid marks across all 3 lanes and back
> again. From the state of it, he had rolled several times, and I fear for
> the occupants as the roof was pushed down below the level of the steering
> wheel. Hell of a mess.
>
> But I digress.. Went out for a spin in the S2a today, quite a culture
> shock after a few thousand miles in an automatic Rangie. It's slow, it's
> crude, it's basic, but it has some major good features:
>
> 2. I understand how it works.
> 3. I've started to get waves from other Landy drivers again.
> 4. It looks just terrific.
>
> (Point 1 was to be "Everything on it seems to work", but I don't want to
> tempt fate.)
>
> Main observation is that it seems to be massively under-geared. The engine
> has plenty of poke, but it's screaming its nuts off at 50mph. Anyone got a
> spare overdrive unit?
>
If you're not going to take it off road too much consider
range rover diffs damn sight cheaper just need to either
have the speedo adjusted or put tipex marks on the face
mine cost me 50 GBP for the pair as opposed to 280GBP
for an overdrive
> As with all additions to the family, I have fallen in love immediately and
> completely. Series fans, expect some daft questions any day now.
>
No such thing as a daft question only ones we don't
know the answers to yet
Andy
--
SWB Series 2a ( dressed as a 3) "Bruce"
It's big it's mean it's really really green
> --
>
> Rich
>
> Series 2a
> RR 4.6
> V8 trialler
> dog, wife, kids, whatever
>
>
