• Home
  • Read Our Blog
  • Who Are We?
  • The House
  • The Garden
  • List-O-Doom

Bye Bye Landy

1/30/2013

0 Comments

 
By Rich:

Well we're Landyless, yes the old Land Rover that has served us so well this last few years (almost four) has gone on to pastures new, sold within 48hrs of putting my advert up. To a chap who works for a specialist land rover re-manufacturers where it will be done up, possibly with a view to shipping her off to America where the V8 Landies are popular.  Yep, Kat was never too happy about driving the Landy due to the heavy clutch and we really had to reduce our 'car pool' down to just the one practical vehicle (the Ka will have to be sold too in favor of a larger vehicle which Kat is happier to maneuver around Bath) and my Cortina MK3 will stay - you can only afford to have so many toys it seems!!
Picture
So what have a I learned from my time with the old girl (not Kat) that I can pass on to anyone who is enthusiastic about these big old trucks. You will love it and hate it in equal measures, you'll love it when it snows and you will find any excuse to drive it (We sold ours the day before the heaviest snow fall we've seen in the four years we'd owned it!!).  
Picture
 You will love it when you have something particularly large, heavy and dirty (or all three) to carry.  As a bonus feature mine had a ladder fitted so that you can swing off it like a monkey while unloading which is both fun for onlookers and a good upper-body work-out.
Picture
You will however hate it when you have a clean shirt on and something goes wrong meaning inevitably you need to crawl under it to fix it while getting rained on by various fluids, sometimes your own tears as you realize it wont be cheap.  They are not soulless vehicles and have a sense of humor of sorts - so it will always wait until you have the aforementioned clean shirt on before pulling any funny business. 
You will also need to have a set of tools and preferably know how to use them too! As almost everything on a landy is heavy duty and over engineered, they are simple to work on but everything requires a fair amount of swearing, skinned knuckles and reaching, lifting and pulling.
Picture
All that said it was one of the best cars we've ever bought, it just did it's job (sometimes reluctantly) but it was a good truck and never really let us down, I never let it down either by doggedly continuing to maintain it even when lack of funds/time or appropriate tools caused jobs to drag on and much knuckle skinning and swearing ensued.
Now my greatest regret about buying such an awesome bit of kit like a landy is never taking it properly off-road.  Yhea, I've seen the signs with "not suitable for road vehicles" before and taking it as an open invitation proceeded up there anyway (albeit carefully and with consideration for both the road and anyone I might meet) but I mean proper off roading! If you decide to buy a landy sign up with a local club who organises 'Green-Laneing' or trips to a 'Pay and Play' site and find out what your vehicle is really capable of, this is something I never had time to do but I think it's something I missed out on...
Picture
...What?! I imagine this is exactly what Green-Laneing is like, isn't it?

Anyway bye old friend I really miss you, although it is nice to have my knuckles fully healed up for a change.
Picture
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Picture

                                 

    August 2017
    July 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013
    December 2012
    November 2012
    October 2012
    September 2012
    August 2012
    July 2012
    June 2012
    May 2012
    April 2012
    March 2012
    February 2012
    January 2012
    December 2011
    November 2011
    October 2011
    September 2011
    July 2011
    June 2011
    May 2011
    April 2011
    March 2011
    February 2011
    January 2011
    December 2010
    November 2010

    Picture

    Design*Sponge
    Tales of a Junkaholic
    Thrifters
    Krim Krams
    Shedworking
    Steel Kitten
    Smallest Smallholding
    My Tiny Plot
    Milkwood
    The Owl and the Accordion
    Seventy Tree
    Tea For Joy
    Snail and the Cyclops
    Little Doodles
    Wellies and Vogue
    Lobster & Swan
    Toot as in Foot
    Conversation Pieces
    Foxtail + Fern
    Five Hundred Miles
    Nine Bojewyan Stennack
    Pretty Shabby
    Tales of Ted and Agnes
    Penny Dreadful Vintage
    Trish Hunter Finds
    Vixen Vintage
    Sandra Juto
    Seeds and Stitches
    Long May She Rain
    Picture
    Gardenalia
    Bristol Wood Recycling Project
    Bath Farmers Market
    Bath Freegle
    Bath Gumtree
    Rolfeys
    Source
    Picture
    Bath Racecourse
    Castle Combe Circuit
    Cheddar Car Boot
    Frome Car Boot Sale

    Picture

    Picture
    Visit Victoriana Nursery Gardens For Quality Seeds & Plants

    I'm a Member of UK Veg Gardeners!



    The photos on this blog are copy write of Kat Whelan unless stated otherwise, please do not reuse without permission. Thank you.

    I apologise for any spelling or grammatica errors, I am dyslexic like many artist's so find writing a bit of trial!

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.