That will teach you to muck about with perfection. When I needed a cup holder
in my series IIa or series III always used the naturally damped and suspended
unit attached to the end of my left arm while I steered and shifted with my
right. It's amazing how much you will automatically and unconsciously
compensate for road irregularities and suspension roughness when you are
holding a hot cuppa above your groin area.
In my experience any cup of coffee that makes it into the cup holder of my
Rangie is just going to sit and get cold anyway.
Bill Lawrence
Rick Grant 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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