Why do we drive them

Well, the exact comment from a guy at work, who is a ice enough bloke, but
with one of those annoying nasal voices, was "How can you drive that thing?"

This is the 40 year old man, that still lives with his mum, and sleeps with
his pussy cat and a hot water bottle I'll add (NOT KIDDING).

His car is a second hand Mondeo on a 02 plate, about which he told me a
prolonged story about how someone "damaged" his rear bumper, and he put it
into the Ford dealer, who repaired it under warranty, and it came back
having had a factory fault fixed (for free) to do with the hand brake (and
he grumbled that it didn't work the same, and took it to 2 other Ford
dealers to get them to make it work as it did), and a "blemish" on the
bumper.

Now I looked at said bumper/valence, and it was a sea of pristine silver, I
couldn't see a single smut, but he inisted that if you look at it in the
right light, it stuck out like a sore thumb, so I wandered around, peering
and prodding, and I couldn't see the blemish.. So went into take the ****
mode instead.

And it reminded me why I drive my Landrover.. It'll NEVER be perfect,
probably wasn't when it was new (which was a long time ago), and never will
be.. So I don't care if it gets another 10 "blemishes" during "play time"...
That'd be dents then..LOL.. But I can tow, pull, play offroad, not worry
about what state the road is in and it now has 8 seats as well.

Also, my insurance is probably less than 1/4 of his, and parts about the
same.. OK, he got me on fuel consumption, but I got him on getting thru the
floods we get around here with the motor still running...

On the flip side, a BIG Nigerian guy came up to me from the next shift,
slapped me on the back (which almost had me flat on my nose) and said "I
LOVE YOUR CAR MAN, I LOVE REALLY YOUR CAR"... Nuff said

Also had 4 employees at the same company ask me if I'll sell it to them...
NO, it's MINE

That's why I can drive "That thing".. So that's some reasons why we put up
with it all

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They sound like the sort of people I work with. I find that talking about
the holidays we have off road with the car tends to keep them quiet. I also
get a lot of lectures on fuel economy - especially amusing from those with
5.0 litre sedans - not quite the ultimate in fuel conservation! At least we
get fun from our car.

"Me" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Well, the exact comment from a guy at work, who is a ice enough bloke, but
> with one of those annoying nasal voices, was "How can you drive that
> thing?"
>
> This is the 40 year old man, that still lives with his mum, and sleeps
> with
> his pussy cat and a hot water bottle I'll add (NOT KIDDING).
>
> His car is a second hand Mondeo on a 02 plate, about which he told me a
> prolonged story about how someone "damaged" his rear bumper, and he put it
> into the Ford dealer, who repaired it under warranty, and it came back
> having had a factory fault fixed (for free) to do with the hand brake (and
> he grumbled that it didn't work the same, and took it to 2 other Ford
> dealers to get them to make it work as it did), and a "blemish" on the
> bumper.
>
> Now I looked at said bumper/valence, and it was a sea of pristine silver,
> I
> couldn't see a single smut, but he inisted that if you look at it in the
> right light, it stuck out like a sore thumb, so I wandered around, peering
> and prodding, and I couldn't see the blemish.. So went into take the ****
> mode instead.
>
> And it reminded me why I drive my Landrover.. It'll NEVER be perfect,
> probably wasn't when it was new (which was a long time ago), and never
> will
> be.. So I don't care if it gets another 10 "blemishes" during "play
> time"...
> That'd be dents then..LOL.. But I can tow, pull, play offroad, not worry
> about what state the road is in and it now has 8 seats as well.
>
> Also, my insurance is probably less than 1/4 of his, and parts about the
> same.. OK, he got me on fuel consumption, but I got him on getting thru
> the
> floods we get around here with the motor still running...
>
> On the flip side, a BIG Nigerian guy came up to me from the next shift,
> slapped me on the back (which almost had me flat on my nose) and said "I
> LOVE YOUR CAR MAN, I LOVE REALLY YOUR CAR"... Nuff said
>
> Also had 4 employees at the same company ask me if I'll sell it to them...
> NO, it's MINE
>
> That's why I can drive "That thing".. So that's some reasons why we put up
> with it all
>
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"Me" <[email protected]> wrote:

>And it reminded me why I drive my Landrover.. It'll NEVER be perfect,
>probably wasn't when it was new (which was a long time ago), and never will
>be.. So I don't care if it gets another 10 "blemishes" during "play time"...
>That'd be dents then..LOL.. But I can tow, pull, play offroad, not worry
>about what state the road is in and it now has 8 seats as well.

My wife made her first tour through the woods this weekend, and she
really came to the point where the defender 90 had its limit with the
street tyres. After that the car looked like having been rolled over
in mud, and when we got out of the car at home she looked at it and
said "_This_ is like my landy has to look" I have never seen
before a woman (!) looking proudly at her f*ckin dirty car!!

>That's why I can drive "That thing".. So that's some reasons why we put up
>with it all

Yep, really...



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"Viviane" <[email protected]> wrote:

>They sound like the sort of people I work with. I find that talking about
>the holidays we have off road with the car tends to keep them quiet. I also
>get a lot of lectures on fuel economy - especially amusing from those with
>5.0 litre sedans - not quite the ultimate in fuel conservation! At least we
>get fun from our car.

Almost everybody around us says "wow, cool, I have ever been dreaming
of such a car, but...(familiy/children/costs/the wive/fuel
consumption/whatever)" why the hell do they not kame their dream come
true?? Instead they buy a VW or Ford or BMW at twice the price they
would have to spend for a good landy... Fools!



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>Well, the exact comment from a guy at work, who is a ice enough bloke, but
>with one of those annoying nasal voices, was "How can you drive that thing?"
>
>This is the 40 year old man, that still lives with his mum, and sleeps with
>his pussy cat and a hot water bottle I'll add (NOT KIDDING).
>
>His car is a second hand Mondeo on a 02 plate, about which he told me a
>prolonged story about how someone "damaged" his rear bumper, and he put it
>into the Ford dealer, who repaired it under warranty, and it came back
>having had a factory fault fixed (for free) to do with the hand brake (and
>he grumbled that it didn't work the same, and took it to 2 other Ford
>dealers to get them to make it work as it did), and a "blemish" on the
>bumper.
>
>Now I looked at said bumper/valence, and it was a sea of pristine silver, I
>couldn't see a single smut, but he inisted that if you look at it in the
>right light, it stuck out like a sore thumb, so I wandered around, peering
>and prodding, and I couldn't see the blemish.. So went into take the ****
>mode instead.
>

He sounds like a poof to me! I hate to be stereotypical about gays
(being one myself) but I don't find many who are at all at home with
the idea of a dirty, bent, scratched landrover being "a suitable mode
of transport" Certainly the more fastidious element of the gay world
frown upon my dirty fingernails after I've been working on the
Landies.

Come to think of it, I know very few gay guys who are into Landrovers
in the enthusiast sense.

Mind you, still living at home at 40? There has to be something amiss
somewhere.....

Alex

"Alex" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
[snip]
>
> Mind you, still living at home at 40? There has to be something amiss
> somewhere.....
>

Do you live on the road then?

Mr.Nice. <[email protected]> wrote:

>For me it's about character I think. it's a 10 minute walk from my
>house to the landy (I live in a fishing village with skinny streets,
>really skinny) and when I walk along to it I smile as soon as I see it
>poking up above the line of cars, I can't help it, I just grin like a
>bloody idiot.

Same with my wife. When we come back from a walk and do not have the
landy in sight she urges me to walk past it, just to touch it and say
"hi", and I enjoy this, too *g*

>then I pull away and manovre out of the tiny parking space with the
>ease that is absent from most smaller car drivers around here, it
>makes me feel good about my abilities.

This was really interesting, I never hat expected such a car to be so
easy to handle, in fact much better than most normal cars.

>Land Rovers are very very cool. they are what cars should be.

In deed!

>you drive it and you feel like you are driving it.

Sure you do!

>land rovers, we love-em. everyone loves-em.
>
>Regards.
>Mark.(AKA, Mr.Nice.)




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On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 18:14:29 +0000, Mr.Nice. <[email protected]>
wrote:

>For me it's about character I think. it's a 10 minute walk from my
>house to the landy (I live in a fishing village with skinny streets,
>really skinny) and when I walk along to it I smile as soon as I see it
>poking up above the line of cars, I can't help it, I just grin like a
>bloody idiot.
<snip>
>
>land rovers, we love-em. everyone loves-em.

Hi Mark,

Saw your post, and on the off-chance typed Mark Varley into the Alamy
search box, and found a lovely set of pics!

Your Landy sentiments regarding character ring a bell with me, but the
major plus for me is the feeling that I have the Solution to any transport
problem which is likely to arise.

From another Landy-owning photographer,
Pat

Pat Bennett
Email : [email protected]
Website : www.cheshirewildlife.co.uk

Hear Hear .....

Well said that man
i couldent agree more

On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 19:11:57 -0000, "BigBird" <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>"Alex" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>>
>[snip]
>>
>> Mind you, still living at home at 40? There has to be something amiss
>> somewhere.....
>>
>
>Do you live on the road then?
>

You know what I meant!

Alex

>Subject: Re: Why do we drive them
>From: "Shayne" [email protected]
>Date: 02/11/2004 21:17 GMT

>Hear Hear .....
>
>Well said that man
>i couldent agree more

Quite. Apart from I absolutely refuse to call any of my Land Rovers 'Landy's'.

Steve. Suffolk.
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Mr.Nice. wrote:
>
> I go to pick the kids up from school and I park among the shiny
> mercedes and pristine discos and rangies and there I am in my
> mud-splattered landy, and all the kids love-it, big chunky tyres,
> mud-spray, daft bloke in it in a funny hat, they always want to stop
> and look at it, the boys come over with comments like "cool truck" or
> "I like your landy" or sometimes, "cool jeep" (little sod).

Ought to make bumper stickers:

"It's not a bloody JEEP!"

Pat Bennett wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 18:14:29 +0000, Mr.Nice. <[email protected]>
>
>>For me it's about character I think. it's a 10 minute walk from my
>>house to the landy (I live in a fishing village with skinny streets,
>>really skinny) and when I walk along to it I smile as soon as I see it
>>poking up above the line of cars, I can't help it, I just grin like a
>>bloody idiot.
>
> <snip>
>
> Your Landy sentiments regarding character ring a bell with me, but the
> major plus for me is the feeling that I have the Solution to any transport
> problem which is likely to arise.

A while ago I was trying to find my old drumming teacher's new house
here in Brussels. The instructions I'd found on the internet (TIP:
Mapblast can't tell the difference between asphalt and mud) took us up a
dreadful farm track which, unbeknownst to us, actually ended up in the
nice paved little suburb street where the house is. But we didn't know
that at the time, so my dad turned the Saab around (the 9-5 is a great
car, but not in eight-inch ruts and mud) with some difficulty and we
said "bugger this for a lark".

If I'd had my Landy then we wouldn't have even noticed.

Torak <[email protected]> wrote:
> Mr.Nice. wrote:
>>
>> I go to pick the kids up from school and I park among the shiny
>> mercedes and pristine discos and rangies and there I am in my
>> mud-splattered landy, and all the kids love-it, big chunky tyres,
>> mud-spray, daft bloke in it in a funny hat, they always want to stop
>> and look at it, the boys come over with comments like "cool truck" or
>> "I like your landy" or sometimes, "cool jeep" (little sod).

> Ought to make bumper stickers:

> "It's not a bloody JEEP!"

I have a sticker on mine that says :- 'The Toyota in front is my crumple zone'

Andy P

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One thing about ford mondeo's though, they don't **** oil out all over your
driveway, unlike landrovers!
"Me" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Well, the exact comment from a guy at work, who is a ice enough bloke, but
> with one of those annoying nasal voices, was "How can you drive that
thing?"
>
> This is the 40 year old man, that still lives with his mum, and sleeps
with
> his pussy cat and a hot water bottle I'll add (NOT KIDDING).
>
> His car is a second hand Mondeo on a 02 plate, about which he told me a
> prolonged story about how someone "damaged" his rear bumper, and he put it
> into the Ford dealer, who repaired it under warranty, and it came back
> having had a factory fault fixed (for free) to do with the hand brake (and
> he grumbled that it didn't work the same, and took it to 2 other Ford
> dealers to get them to make it work as it did), and a "blemish" on the
> bumper.
>
> Now I looked at said bumper/valence, and it was a sea of pristine silver,
I
> couldn't see a single smut, but he inisted that if you look at it in the
> right light, it stuck out like a sore thumb, so I wandered around, peering
> and prodding, and I couldn't see the blemish.. So went into take the ****
> mode instead.
>
> And it reminded me why I drive my Landrover.. It'll NEVER be perfect,
> probably wasn't when it was new (which was a long time ago), and never
will
> be.. So I don't care if it gets another 10 "blemishes" during "play
time"...
> That'd be dents then..LOL.. But I can tow, pull, play offroad, not worry
> about what state the road is in and it now has 8 seats as well.
>
> Also, my insurance is probably less than 1/4 of his, and parts about the
> same.. OK, he got me on fuel consumption, but I got him on getting thru
the
> floods we get around here with the motor still running...
>
> On the flip side, a BIG Nigerian guy came up to me from the next shift,
> slapped me on the back (which almost had me flat on my nose) and said "I
> LOVE YOUR CAR MAN, I LOVE REALLY YOUR CAR"... Nuff said
>
> Also had 4 employees at the same company ask me if I'll sell it to them...
> NO, it's MINE
>
> That's why I can drive "That thing".. So that's some reasons why we put up
> with it all
>
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>
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>

On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 10:50:44 +0000, Mr.Nice. <[email protected]>
wrote:

>Twas Tue, 02 Nov 2004 20:55:02 +0000 when Pat Bennett
><[email protected]> put finger to keyboard producing:
>
>>On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 18:14:29 +0000, Mr.Nice. <[email protected]>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>For me it's about character I think. it's a 10 minute walk from my
>>>house to the landy (I live in a fishing village with skinny streets,
>>>really skinny) and when I walk along to it I smile as soon as I see it
>>>poking up above the line of cars, I can't help it, I just grin like a
>>>bloody idiot.
>><snip>
>>>
>>>land rovers, we love-em. everyone loves-em.
>>
>>Hi Mark,
>>
>>Saw your post, and on the off-chance typed Mark Varley into the Alamy
>>search box, and found a lovely set of pics!
>
>That's odd, I don't have anything on Alamy yet...

Then there is another Mark Varley! Go to www.alamy.com and type Mark
Varley in the search box. It's worth doing!

Pat

Pat Bennett
Email : [email protected]
Website : www.cheshirewildlife.co.uk

That's because Mondeo's aren't marking territory in the same way

"Torak" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Mr.Nice. wrote:
> >
> > I go to pick the kids up from school and I park among the shiny
> > mercedes and pristine discos and rangies and there I am in my
> > mud-splattered landy, and all the kids love-it, big chunky tyres,
> > mud-spray, daft bloke in it in a funny hat, they always want to stop
> > and look at it, the boys come over with comments like "cool truck" or
> > "I like your landy" or sometimes, "cool jeep" (little sod).
>
> Ought to make bumper stickers:
>
> "It's not a bloody JEEP!"

I don't have chunky (well, not *really* chunky) tyres on my V8 swb Series
III truck cab but I do have mud (and cow sh!t) splats and in winter I wear
one of those Canadian style spaniel-ears hats (I've done away with the door
tops so I've got to keep my ears warm somehow). I too get "cool truck", "I
like your landy" and sometimes "cool jeep". I really don't mind the jeep
thing because I don't think they'd be saying that about the wrangler type
product anyway. However, the best bit is when they add "I wish my dad would
get/had one of these".

Steve

AN6530 wrote:

>>Subject: Re: Why do we drive them
>>From: "Shayne" [email protected]
>>Date: 02/11/2004 21:17 GMT
>
>>Hear Hear .....
>>
>>Well said that man
>>i couldent agree more
>
> Quite. Apart from I absolutely refuse to call any of my Land Rovers
> 'Landy's'.
>

Too polite and indescriptive?

P.
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On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 18:14:29 +0000, Mr.Nice.
<[email protected]> wrote:

<snip>>
>I start the engine up and let it warm up for 5 minutes and it feels
>like home.

Hi Mark,

<Devils advocate mode on>

Is the parking area is away from other folks houses?

The reason I ask is that we had a neighbour who would, in the winter,
come out, start his car and go back in to leave it 'warming up'. The
exhaust note seemed to be at the resonant frequency of our hourse and
was very annoying. ;-(

Luckily the Police 'had a word' with him before I had to .. (I believe
it's an offence to leave a vehicle empty oin the public highway with
the engine running or summat)

That's on top of the environmental issues (and I know Land Rovers and
the environment aren't generally considered good bedfellows anyway?).

Also I believe someone once said that letting an engine 'idle' for an
extended period (say >30 seconds) wasn't a very good (efficient) way
of warming it up and not generally required anyway (apart from
personal comfort ... and you would warm up quicker by putting some
gentle load on the engine and driving?).

(DA mode off>

I like the imagery of your thoughts though .. I felt similar about an
old Royal Enfield 350 Bullet motorbike ... attracted more admiring
attention than any bike I had owned before or since ;-)

All the best ..

T i m