Mea culpa, Lee. Only meant those Disco owners obsessed with keeping the
shine on their plastic front end 'spoilers', not the guys who use 'em as
they were meant to be used: out on and off the track, getting 'bloodied
knuckles' doing their own servicing, retrievals, fixes, and all the regular
real and inexplicable Land Rover stuff!
Why, would you believe I saw a couple of Rangies recently out west of
Tipooburra (up in the arid NW corner of NSW) heading in along the dingo
fence from the desert. The Range Rovers were kitted for real Outback travel.
They were traveling well, and sporting a lot of proud dents too. We stopped
and yarned a while with the drivers who were in tandem convoy on a 14,500km
round trip from west to east across the continent. Mind you, the Rangies did
NOT have plastic bits anywhere, and all air bags and anti-skid braking had
been disconnected.
(How the heck do you guys manage Stateside with the air bags for passengers
regs over there, especially with the 110 Defenders that now look like being
around in present form until 2010? For my money, I think I'd rather have
side bags only if I'm forced by the legislators and regulators to have 'em
on a separate chassis 4WD!)
Happy New Year to you!
Theodore Ted
From: Lee Dunkelberg <lee@dunkelberg.com>
To: T&S Bennett <apg@bigfoot.com.au>; <lro@koan.team.net>
Tuesday, December 31, 2002 2:10 AM
RE: BK PUB BADGE YIPEE
| > Whoopee! Now, just let those snooty Disco and
| > Rangie drivers try to figure out what the badges on our Series
| > grilles mean!
|
| Present company excluded, of course? ;-)
| (Promise not to tell the snooty ones).
| Lee Dunkelberg
|
|
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