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1 S|ren Vels Christensen [21Re: Newsgroup opinion.. (No, please)
2 S|ren Vels Christensen [51Re: UNIMOG FOR SALE
3 S|ren Vels Christensen [28Halogen Beams (Re: Mid Atlantic Rally)
4 S|ren Vels Christensen [28Re: Query on L/R product development / Safety research
5 S|ren Vels Christensen [35Re: Bull Bars/LR Safety
6 Spenny@aol.com 22Re: Unimog Madness, USA
7 Spenny@aol.com 67Names List/LRO Club
8 Spenny@aol.com 23Newsgroups
9 dixon@fourfold.ocunix.on26[not specified]


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Date: Sat, 3 Sep 1994 09:13:32 +0200 (METDST)
From: S|ren Vels Christensen <velssvch@inet.uni-c.dk>
Subject: Re: Newsgroup opinion.. (No, please)

On Fri, 2 Sep 1994, Andy Woodward wrote:

> a free man."

And, as i can see, you have a good taste in music too. The kind of music that
one can hear over the noise in a landie.
(Not to start a thread!).

yours

+----------------------------+--------------------------------+
| Soren Vels                 | 1976  sIII  109"   2.25 petrol |
| velssvch@inet.uni-c.dk     | "Lawrence of Arabia"           |    ((|||))
| Royal Danish Air Force     | Dansk Land-Rover Klub no. 3564 |   ((|||))
| Communications Specialist  | DL-RK: Approx. 1000 members.   |    ((|||))
+----------------------------+--------------------------------+__((|||))______

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Date: Sat, 3 Sep 1994 10:17:31 +0200 (METDST)
From: S|ren Vels Christensen <velssvch@inet.uni-c.dk>
Subject: Re: UNIMOG FOR SALE

On Fri, 2 Sep 1994, maloney wrote:

> Sefan writes:
> ...because suddenly we hear a deafening roar behind us somewhere, and there 
	 [ truncated by lro-digester (was 23 lines)]
> UNIMOG after all but it does have the same cab shape, wheel style, and it is a 
> Mercedes.

Before going to the bank and converting the landie to loan security, please
note that an old MOG is a VERY special vehicle (not car). We have had MOG's 
for many years in Her Majesty's Armed Forces (The Queen's got hundreds of 
cars, but only uses the Bentley and the XJ6, -never a MOG). I've been riding
in an UNIMOG. It only goes 70km/h and its even more noisy than a diesel
landie. The front wheels are where the footwells should have been. The 
springs are harder than rusty overaged LR springs. On a bumby surface, the
rocking chair effect is more distinct than in an 88'' because your are 
sitting high.
Like buying the first LR, drive it as much as possible before signing the 
check. If you like it and money is no object get an MAN 6x6, and roll the LR
on the back of it and take off into the wilderness. When the forest gets 
dense, roll of the landie and go on.

> Personally, it's not my cup of tea as LRs are what get's my blood going.

LR is superior when it comes to providing that pi**-boiling feeling when i
drive my battered veteran of the mud wars saying "i can go where you can't
mr. Mercedes and Lacoste and Ray-Ban".

BTW we used to have landies in the defense but switched to Mercedes GD.
And the airbase firechiefs use Toy Landcrushers. Utterly incomprehensible.

 
> FWIW
> Bill
	 [ truncated by lro-digester (was 7 lines)]
> maloney@wings.attmail.com
> Wayne, NJ USA

yours

+----------------------------+--------------------------------+
| Soren Vels                 | 1976  sIII  109"   2.25 petrol |
| velssvch@inet.uni-c.dk     | "Lawrence of Arabia"           |    ((|||))
| Royal Danish Air Force     | Dansk Land-Rover Klub no. 3564 |   ((|||))
| Communications Specialist  | DL-RK: Approx. 1000 members.   |    ((|||))
+----------------------------+--------------------------------+__((|||))______

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Date: Sat, 3 Sep 1994 10:45:39 +0200 (METDST)
From: S|ren Vels Christensen <velssvch@inet.uni-c.dk>
Subject: Halogen Beams (Re: Mid Atlantic Rally)

On Fri, 2 Sep 1994, MR ALEXANDER P GRICE wrote:

>... 
> Has anyone replaced a headlight with a halogen sealed beam?  I'm still
	 [ truncated by lro-digester (was 17 lines)]
>     |    1633 Melrose Pkwy., Norfolk, VA, 23508-1730 USA   |
>     *------------------------------------------------------*

Sandy
I use Hella R2000 kettledrums for beamers. They are mounted on the front
skirt in the radiator pit, with a steel band through the grille to 
stabilise. They not only provide sufficient beams, - they also give Lawrence
a more "pioneer"-like look. If you want to keep an original LR, get an extra
skirt to keep. They are still available and cheap.

yours

+----------------------------+--------------------------------+
| Soren Vels                 | 1976  sIII  109"   2.25 petrol |
| velssvch@inet.uni-c.dk     | "Lawrence of Arabia"           |    ((|||))
| Royal Danish Air Force     | Dansk Land-Rover Klub no. 3564 |   ((|||))
| Communications Specialist  | DL-RK: Approx. 1000 members.   |    ((|||))
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Date: Sat, 3 Sep 1994 11:19:23 +0200 (METDST)
From: S|ren Vels Christensen <velssvch@inet.uni-c.dk>
Subject: Re: Query on L/R product development / Safety research

I have seen the word "afterthought" mentioned in connection with LR safety,
both here on the list and in various other places.

It is worth to keep in mind that LR was a professional work vehicle made for
agricultural/forestry/military etc environnements. It has only been a
lifestyle vehicle for a few years. And therefore, applying safety _devices_
is a fairly new thing. Until about the mid eighties, the far most LR's were
registered with public/private organisations and with farmers, vets etc.

When ordinary people looks at SUV's, they will of course look at nippers as
well. And many of those are just sedan's with bigger wheels and an extra 
diff. "Airbag" is the selling label these days, and LR would of course like
to gain and keep market shares. NOT claiming that market interests is the
only reason for LR research into safety!. 

yours

+----------------------------+--------------------------------+
| Soren Vels                 | 1976  sIII  109"   2.25 petrol |
| velssvch@inet.uni-c.dk     | "Lawrence of Arabia"           |    ((|||))
| Royal Danish Air Force     | Dansk Land-Rover Klub no. 3564 |   ((|||))
| Communications Specialist  | DL-RK: Approx. 1000 members.   |    ((|||))
+----------------------------+--------------------------------+__((|||))______

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Date: Sat, 3 Sep 1994 11:36:37 +0200 (METDST)
From: S|ren Vels Christensen <velssvch@inet.uni-c.dk>
Subject: Re: Bull Bars/LR Safety

On Fri, 2 Sep 1994, John Brabyn wrote:

> I agree especially about the bullbars -- I have never seen them to be useful
> for anything but appearance. The same applies to the ridiculous headlight
	 [ truncated by lro-digester (was 13 lines)]
> ^[[D
> John Brabyn
> 89RR

Some people find the bull-bar essential when travelling. They can tie a rope
between the front corners and the pigsti on the top to ensure it won't leave
the roof and test the crumple-zones of the Volvo driving behind.

Bull-bars are not made for hi-speed raming. If you drive in a dense forest
for example, you have to look in 20 directions at the same time. I you only
look in 19 directions, the bar might save a headlight or the radiator.

I read somewhere that bull-bars (kufangere) are now forbidden in Norway. This
might create a precedense in Europe. We'll se what happens.

(I don't have my self, i only have the opinion).

yours

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| Soren Vels                 | 1976  sIII  109"   2.25 petrol |
| velssvch@inet.uni-c.dk     | "Lawrence of Arabia"           |    ((|||))
| Royal Danish Air Force     | Dansk Land-Rover Klub no. 3564 |   ((|||))
| Communications Specialist  | DL-RK: Approx. 1000 members.   |    ((|||))
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From: Spenny@aol.com
Date: Sat, 03 Sep 94 08:55:36 EDT
Subject: Re: Unimog Madness, USA

Bill writes
>>>You too can indulge in Unimog Madness as there is one for sale on RT 1 in 
>>>Hampton, New Hampshire, USA.

I haven't seen it recently, perhaps it was sold and is out and about
squishing Jettas in this country. :-)

Spenny

Spencer K. C. Norcross                                Spenny@aol.com
Haverhill, Mass. USA
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1969 IIA SWB Bugeye - The Wayback Machine

Land Rovers on the Information Superhighway!
What will they think of next!

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From: Spenny@aol.com
Date: Sat, 03 Sep 94 09:00:28 EDT
Subject: Names List/LRO Club

As long as I am going to moderate the name vote I don't mind moderating
another.
Should we vote on whether we want to become a club?
The consensus seems to be:

Club - No   Name - Yes

Once again, the voting rules: Voting will start Mon, Sept 5 @ 6:30 am, when I
will post a final edition of the list, and will end Mon, Sept. 12 @ 6:30 am,
one week from the posting of the final list. I will post final results no
later than Wed, Sept. 14

e-mail me at   
spenny@aol.com     
put BALLOT in the Subject header

Here is the list of names as of 2:00 am EST 9/3/94
PLEASE NOTE: that the last option is no name for the club, just continuing to
use the internet mail address

1.)   Land Rover Owners Club
2.)   Rover nets
3.)   Low Rangers of the Information Superhighway
4.)   L.R.O.I Land-rovers on the internet (info hiway)
5.)   RoversNet or NetRovers
6.)   IL-RIC - International Land-Rover Internet Connection
7.)   ILRN - International Land-Rover Network
8.)   Rovers in the Ether
9.)   Roving through the Ether...
10.)   Land-Rovers, Internet & Beer, a virtual community.
11.)   low-box net surfers
12.)   Ledgendary Land Rovers International
13.)   Rover 4X4s of the electronic highway
14.)   Raving Rovers!
15.)   The Net Rovers
16.)   Rover Rangers of the Infobahn
17.)   LROC of the Internet
18.)   The Wired Rovers
19.)   Space Rovers
20.)   Cyberspace LAN'd-Rovers
21.)   LROC of the Internet
22.)   CyberLand Rovers
23 )   Land-rover Users Group    (LUG)
24 )   Land-Rover Owners Virtual Register (L-ROVR) 
25 )   Land-Rover Owners Virtual, Internet Group   (L-ROVING)
26 )   Syberspace Land Rover Owners Club
27 )   Society for Landies United Together {Maloney Baloney  ; )  }
28 )   LUGNUTs (Landrover Users Group Network UniTed) or 
29 )   SCREWs (Society of Cybernet Rover EnthusiastS)?
30 )   Car List Rejects
31 )   NO NAME - Keep LRO@Team.Net

Spenny

Spencer K. C. Norcross                                Spenny@aol.com
Haverhill, Mass. USA
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1969 IIA SWB Bugeye - The Wayback Machine

Land Rovers on the Information Superhighway!
What will they think of next!

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From: Spenny@aol.com
Date: Sat, 03 Sep 94 09:00:55 EDT
Subject: Newsgroups

I agree with Ben Smith, I don't have regular access to newsgroups, but from
what I've seen the signal/noise ratio is unacceptable. I, like Ben, read
every message I receive from my fellow LROers, I save many that I think will
be of help in the future. I don't want to have to filter anything out, and to
this point I haven't seen anything that IMHO needed to be filtered.
Secondly, anything other than a mail list will be unavailable to those of us
who get our internet from places like compuserve and aol.

Spenny

Spencer K. C. Norcross                                Spenny@aol.com
Haverhill, Mass. USA
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1969 IIA SWB Bugeye - The Wayback Machine

Land Rovers on the Information Superhighway!
What will they think of next!

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Subject: Land Rovers and charging rhinos...
From: dixon@fourfold.ocunix.on.ca (dixon kenner)
Date: Sat, 03 Sep 94 22:57:40 -0500

        Something that has been discussed before here...

        I was going through some old issues of the ALROC magazine
        Transfer Box and came across a small reprint of a Land Rover
        advert. from the early mid 1060's.  In the advert they state
        that the Land Rover was designed to withstand a charging
        rhino.  Another issue has another advert stating the same
        thing, the photo showing a 109 Station Wagon in the background,
        a bull rhino in the foreground.  I have not seen reference to
        fixing them with any simple tools yet.

        The first ad ran in 1965 (shows a 109 Station Wagon in the photo),
        there is no date on the second.

        Rgds,

        Dixon

--
dixon kenner, dixon@fourfold.ocunix.on.ca
Ottawa Valley Land Rovers / FourFold Symmetry, Nepean, Ontario, Canada

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