Coventry

Posted by: boxer

Coventry - 09/09/2003 07:10

Jeez, isn't it nice to have the site back up and working, I feel as though I've been excommunicated these last few days. The "You have a new PM" flashing at me, became particularly irksome after a day or two, who wants me? Is it important? Have I won another Empeg? Does Julf want to sell me a DUKW?
Leading issues, like can I buy a Karma in Karachi? have been denied me.
Fair play to Drakino and his colleagues, the thing's sorted and we can relax again as part of the most important intellectual movement on the internet, If only Einstein had seen the Empeg BBS!
Posted by: julf

Re: Coventry - 09/09/2003 09:27

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Does Julf want to sell me a DUKW?


Hmm... Swap for an Aquada?
Posted by: jimhogan

Re: Coventry - 10/09/2003 08:46

Julf, recognize this? (that mysterious object in the background?)
Posted by: julf

Re: Coventry - 10/09/2003 08:54

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Julf, recognize this? (that mysterious object in the background?)


Woah! Not only is it a radio-body 101, but it looks like a Vampire!
Posted by: jimhogan

Re: Coventry - 10/09/2003 09:12

Woah! Not only is it a radio-body 101, but it looks like a Vampire!

Oh good! (Rare)

My buddy in Boston went to work as business manager for his friend who started up the indie Land Rover repair shop seen in the picture/URL. Funny, funny, I drove out to check out his shop and said "Holy Sh*t!!! I know what that beast is!!" and had to take a pic. It is in the process of some extensive rehab. Don't know who the owner is.

Proprietor Alan (the tall gent in the pic) is apparently the rarest of commodities, somebody in the U.S who can *really* fix Rovers (it is not unheard of for Alan to get referrals from dealers that have thrown in the towel) and they are busy, busy, busy, located as they are in a Boston suburb that is smack in the middle of Range Rover country. They were also in the middle of a few other projects like dropping a Vette engine (LT1?) into a recent-vintage Range Rover...

(oh, small typo in your link...)
Posted by: julf

Re: Coventry - 10/09/2003 12:50

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Oh good! (Rare)


Very!
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(oh, small typo in your link...)


Ouch! What typo?
Posted by: jimhogan

Re: Coventry - 10/09/2003 13:07

Ouch! What typo?

Oh, just a redundant "http://" I worked around it.

Those guys picked the right niche. People keep buying Land/Range Rovers, and they always need work!
Posted by: julf

Re: Coventry - 10/09/2003 13:18

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Those guys picked the right niche. People keep buying Land/Range Rovers, and they always need work!


Absolutely! I just feel sorry for the people who buy a Land Rover without being prepared to (or liking to) work on it themselves.
Posted by: canuckInOR

Re: Coventry - 10/09/2003 23:21

I was tempted to buy a Land Rover. Fortunately, one of my friends was a LR enthusiast, and described to me the whole "work on it yourself or don't buy one" thing. So I got a Nissan, instead.
Posted by: julf

Re: Coventry - 11/09/2003 04:14

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I was tempted to buy a Land Rover. Fortunately, one of my friends was a LR enthusiast, and described to me the whole "work on it yourself or don't buy one" thing. So I got a Nissan, instead.


And I think you did the right thing. I don't have any experience with Freelanders, but with the rest, you need to like to tinker around.

I have a friend who is not very mechanically adept, but still very keen on Land Rovers. He keeps a garage or two in business. I kept telling him to get a Volvo, and finally he saw the light
Posted by: boxer

Re: Coventry - 23/09/2003 08:52

Believe it or not, we had a milkman who used a flatbed civilian one until about ten years ago.
I'm told by one of my daughter's friends at Catterick that our army still have some on the inventory, some units find them more reliable than the Pinzgauers, particularly the complex axle arrangement. The ambulance and fire people north of here in Yorkshire both use Pinzgauers.
Posted by: julf

Re: Coventry - 23/09/2003 12:25

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Believe it or not, we had a milkman who used a flatbed civilian one until about ten years ago.


One of the good old round-cab 109" forward controls?
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I'm told by one of my daughter's friends at Catterick that our army still have some on the inventory


They wouldn't have sold off the Carawagons if it had't been for the wholesale switch to diesel from petrol.
Posted by: boxer

Re: Coventry - 24/09/2003 02:04

One of the good old round-cab 109" forward controls?
Yep, I'm pretty sure so, I recall that towards the end it was chiefly noticeable for going wildly crabwise and had been badly hand painted with a (too narrow] brush. The Jap pick up that replaced it is distinctly lacking in character!