Thread: Where's the Defender wave gone?

Today drove to Molong and back to meet my son and hand over grandkids.

On the way back, responded to a wave. Doesn't strictly belong in this thread, as I drive a Landrover 110 not a Defender, and the vehiicle I waved to was a Perentie, both predating the Defender name.

Originally Posted by JDNSW

Today drove to Molong and back to meet my son and hand over grandkids.

On the way back, responded to a wave. Doesn't strictly belong in this thread, as I drive a Landrover 110 not a Defender, and the vehiicle I waved to was a Perentie, both predating the Defender name.

I wave at anything that remotely looks like a Defender, Series or Perentie

just got back from Wattlemere and the trip up and back were very defender friendly!

friday there were a heap of defenders at Moore, parked up waiting to head off?

and then just up the road was a 130 with the driver waving..

then on the way back we saw 2 more 130's but alas only one waved back...

Originally Posted by JDNSW

Today drove to Molong and back to meet my son and hand over grandkids.

On the way back, responded to a wave. Doesn't strictly belong in this thread, as I drive a Landrover 110 not a Defender, and the vehiicle I waved to was a Perentie, both predating the Defender name.

My Great Grand Parents are buried in Molong. Now you have to wave as you pass the Cemetery.

Your 110 and Perenties, all Landrovers / Land Rovers for that matter, count. A rose by any other name would still smell as sweet. Sorry Will.

Originally Posted by incisor

just got back from Wattlemere and the trip up and back were very defender friendly!

friday there were a heap of defenders at Moore, parked up waiting to head off?

and then just up the road was a 130 with the driver waving..

then on the way back we saw 2 more 130's but alas only one waved back...

Must've only just missed you. Went up Friday and spent the weekend up at the Bunya's.
Passed and waved at a 130 with a camper trailer on the highway then pulled into Fernvale for a pie (along with everyone else in the region) and parked in front of a 110 with said 130 pulling up shortly afterwards in front of me.

Originally Posted by JDNSW

Today drove to Molong and back to meet my son and hand over grandkids.

On the way back, responded to a wave. Doesn't strictly belong in this thread, as I drive a Landrover 110 not a Defender, and the vehiicle I waved to was a Perentie, both predating the Defender name.

I drive a Land Rover 110 (but for some reason it's got Defender written on the front?)

Probably because it is a Landrover Defender 110. The Defender name was not introduced until 1989, when the use of the Landrover name was expanded to be used as an umbrella name to cover the new Discovery and the pre-existing Rangerover as a single family.

Before this, Landrover referred to the utility vehicle introduced by Rover in 1948 and its descendants, with the individual models designated by the wheelbase in inches or the terms long and short after 1953, plus a Series number (2,2a,3, usually in Roman numbers) from 1958-1984. Landrovers made before the 1958 model year are often referred to as "Series One", but this was only retrospectively. There is no similar retrospective name for coil sprung pre-Defender Landrovers, although in Australia, the term "County" is often used. "County" is actually a trim level designation used by the Rover group for a number of models including Landrovers and Rangerovers. It seems to have stuck to the pre-Defender coil sprung Landrovers in Australia simply because for the first time recreational Landrovers outsold working ones, and most of these were County trim five door 110 wagons, with the name "County" prominently emblazoned on the front doors. (90s were not sold in Australia until well after the introduction of the Defender name, and have always been rare here.)

I was driving the Bush Pig today on main nth rd out of Adelaide and got a wave from a white, i think 130. First one ive seen. Yay no longer a wave virgin...

Cheers Rod