Where's the Defender wave gone?

MrLandy · 12th July 2015, 09:44 AM

Very friendly Perentie driver on the Geelong road a couple of months back... We drove alongside each other for a bit both grinning like old mates. Some people just think they're too cool to wave. They can choose that desert island if they like.

DAMINK · 12th July 2015, 10:24 AM

Gotta weigh into this if i may.
Im new to the whole Landy thing. (6 months now)
Been a one eyed holden bloke my whole life prior to that.
I did not even know there was a whole culture behind these beasts!
I quickly worked out there was though for this exact reason.
People started to wave at me. At first i thought perhaps they recognized my disco. Quickly i worked out its the friendly nature of the drivers and the fact we have similar vehicles.
Gotta say its a good feeling and something i actively do myself now.

MrLandy · 12th July 2015, 11:04 AM

Originally Posted by DAMINK

Gotta weigh into this if i may.
Im new to the whole Landy thing. (6 months now)
Been a one eyed holden bloke my whole life prior to that.
I did not even know there was a whole culture behind these beasts!
I quickly worked out there was though for this exact reason.
People started to wave at me. At first i thought perhaps they recognized my disco. Quickly i worked out its the friendly nature of the drivers and the fact we have similar vehicles.
Gotta say its a good feeling and something i actively do myself now.

Welcome to the fold Daminck, great to hear you're embracing it! Originally it was the 'Defender wave' of course 😉, now it's somehow become the Landy Wave. He he. We enjoy a good humoured wave rivalry! 😊 but of course all who wave are part of the brother/sisterhood. It's definitely a Land Rover thing. See you in the road! Cheers

DAMINK · 12th July 2015, 07:01 PM

Originally Posted by MrLandy

Welcome to the fold Daminck, great to hear you're embracing it! Originally it was the 'Defender wave' of course 😉, now it's somehow become the Landy Wave. He he. We enjoy a good humoured wave rivalry! 😊 but of course all who wave are part of the brother/sisterhood. It's definitely a Land Rover thing. See you in the road! Cheers

hahha i love a bit of rivlary

Hell my best mate currently ownes a Toymota and my next best mate owns a Datsun so ya know i must love a good fight among friends

(Can i just say in the short time i have owned my disco both said friends have had there cars fail where mine has not..... lucky perhaps)

**cuppabillytea** · 12th July 2015, 07:06 PM

Hi DAMINK. Not luck, just a better vehicle.
Cheers Billy.

**Bernd VonCrashen** · 19th July 2015, 03:34 PM

On my way out to Illinbah for downhill shuttles and passed a well used and rigged Defender tray back behind Oxenford amd got a very happy wave.

Though after non waves and puzzled looks from my passenger after I passed 2 Pumas and one Td5 without a hint of a wave. Albiet Td5 was negotiating a round about. Very happy to get a wave in the end, even my fellow passenger chuckled to say "Secret Defender wave eh"...

**rick130** · 19th July 2015, 09:10 PM

Two acknowledgements out of three Defers on the F3 on the the way into Sydney on Friday.
Just haven't seen any 90/110/130's running around the last two days though.

**Wheatos** · 20th July 2015, 07:31 AM

Rare sightings these days. In the school holidays we did Sydney-Tamworth -Tea Gardens (via Barrington Tops)-Sydney, and then Sydney-Bathurst-Trunkey Creek return, and not a single Defender was seen on the road.

I'm sure our Fraser Island trip in December won't disappoint.

**cuppabillytea** · 20th July 2015, 07:43 AM

Originally Posted by Wheatos

Rare sightings these days. In the school holidays we did Sydney-Tamworth -Tea Gardens (via Barrington Tops)-Sydney, and then Sydney-Bathurst-Trunkey Creek return, and not a single Defender was seen on the road.

I'm sure our Fraser Island trip in December won't disappoint.

I was up at Forster-Tuncurry on the School Holidays. I saw about four but I wasn't in mine. I waved but got nothing but peeved looks in return.

**steane** · 20th July 2015, 08:12 AM

Recently returned from an Adelaide to Alice across the Simpson to Birdsville trip and saw more Defenders than I've seen on the last three similar trips combined. All waved and or gave the thumbs up and even had one guy run out from next to his 130 where they were camped to watch my 110 go up a dune.

Passed a 110 Puma trayback on the QAA line and had a conspiratorial laugh with them. They were quizzed about their setup by someone else that passed them who had a similar 110.

Only vehicles to limp out were a Triton with a broken chassis and a Troopy that had all but lost its rear axle. He was lucky that a big chunk of the Rig Rd was like a highway thanks to a mining rig being setup in that corner.

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