If you really want a cup holder, first get a cup that
will hold the coffee. One of those stainless steel
ones with a screw on top work well at containing the
coffee. Have also had luck with super size plastic
inuslated mugs with press on plastic tops. Then get
yourself a cup holder that you can screw down onto the
tunnel. I found one that is adjustable so it will fit
a variety of diameter cups. Not a super sturdy holder
but will keep a cup in place unless it is physically
knocked off by a larger falling object.
Of course the real problem with coffee in the Rover is
finding a road that's smooth enough so you can
actually drink the coffee. Around here, you have to
search out the short sections of unsullied pavement to
take a sip. If you don't time it right, the coffee
ends up splashing in your face or all over your
clothes, when you hit the inevitable poorly done patch
or pothole. Still, our roads are nothing like the
expansion strips on Michigan Freeways. Those strips
are bad enough to launch you and the cup completely
out of the Rover.
Aloha
Peter O.
Aloha
Peter O.
--- Rick Grant <rickgrant@telus.net> wrote:
>
> I'm reluctant to raise this since everyone else
> seems to be deep into
> serious and esoteric mechanical adaptations with
> their vehicles and might
> not appreciate a bit of trivial Series engineering,
> but I installed a
> coffee cup holder in my SII today -- and then had to
> rip it right out.
>
> I don't know what got into me. I should have known
> better than to try and
> gussy up the venerable beast. I can only take
> comfort from not installing
> a CD player.
>
> But I paid for it, big time.
>
> It started when I picked up a piece of bent plastic
> at a gas station
> purporting to be a "universal coffee cup holder",
> fits all makes and
> models. Sure it does.
>
> It took me half an hour of heating and bending
> plastic and then finding a
> place on the dash to wedge it into place.
>
> Job done, I piled the dogs in the back and headed
> off down the road to the
> nearest coffee shop. I don't know about the rest of
> you but how come you
> can't just order a "coffee" these days? Everything
> seems to have
> hyphenated fake Italian names and there seems to be
> more decaffeinated
> coffee for sale than should be right in a coffee
> house. And the sizes. No
> regular, medium or large. Instead, everything is
> grande, or tall or some
> other pretentiousness. I don't recall having to go
> through this ordering
> nonsense in Italy.
>
> Anyhow, I put the paper cup in the new holder and
> drove off for the
> kilometer or so to the dog runs.
>
> I would have sworn before today that that road used
> to be the pinnacle of
> the road builder's art, the finest stretch of smooth
> driving in the
> hemisphere, the sort of dead flat surface that an
> engineer could check his
> Johanson Blocks against. Instead it felt like
> something a drunken road
> digger might have hacked out.
>
> It never occurred to me before, but a Series Land
> Rover is a very bumpy
> riding beast. We hadn't gone through the second
> gear change before the
> plastic top exploded off the cup. Half a second
> later the first geyser of
> scalding coffee shoots straight up and sprays
> against the
> windscreen. Second by second great gouts of skin
> blistering liquid shot
> out of the coffee holder. My sunglasses were coated
> in it, my right hand
> turned numb from the burning, and the Border Collies
> crowded back against
> the rear door, coffee dribbling from their whiskers.
>
> By the time I got to the dog run there wasn't a dry
> spot in the Land Rover
> except for the interior of the Super Grande sized
> coffee cup.
>
> The cup holder is now out in the trash.
>
>
> Rick Grant
> 1959 SII 88"
> VORIZO
>
> Calgary Alberta
> www.rickgrant.com
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