Thread: Why do we love our discoveries ?

You know , people never talk about other cars the way Land Rover owners talk about theirs with such affection and - the word love is very bloody common to isn't it !

It's a classic but there is something very unique about them isn't there , I love mine . I love it's feel , the way it handles , the bite from the constant awd , the way it ambles along so steadily , full of character.
Had a lot of cars but nothings ever felt like the rover except - the Jag ! The only other car I've ever owned that had it ! I had and 83xjs6 for awhile , what a beautiful and unique car but unfortunately pretty well useless for anything other than cruising about and listening to great cd's though so in the end as painful as it was , it had to go.
Then I bought another Jackaroo , it was a good old car , tough as nails , great little workhorse , but I missed my Jag sooo much and just found myself thinking none stop , if only I could get a Jag in a 4wd .

Well bugger me , looked about , thought , - ding - of course , get a Landy !
A mate of a mates got one earlier and reckoned it rode as nicely if not better than his bmw and that really got me thinking so in I went.

Today I was beside a defender at the servo - again what a classic , the thing just sat there , it almost looked like a person so to speak . We glanced a chuckle to each other .
Even my girls love mine and I'd heard whole families talking like " love " about theirs .
Strange isn't it , don't hear that in many cars .

Cheers

I bought my first landy in 1962. Have owned another 5 since and I love my 92 Disco and would never sell it.
Another thing I also had at the time as a giggle and play thingy was a Suzuki LJ50. I loved it, it had a 3 cylinder 2 stroke engine. I was so impressed that I fitted the little thing out with an extra 10 gallon fuel tank plus jerries and 2nd spare wheel carrier, a box with a few tools and spares, which had to be light.
In 1977 I took off on my own and done a trip which circumnavigated Lake Ayre and bush bashed across the Simpson to the Birdsville track. Then on to the flinders and back up via Innaminka, the dig tree and past Charlieville.
I only had one spot of bother on the whole trip. I was bush bashing east of the Flinders on my way up to find Mount Hopeless when I drove over a Rabbit warren and snapped the front engine mount and dropped the engine onto the front axle. Had to make some bush repairs before I could continue on. Took a day and a half but repair lasted till I arrived home and for sometime after before I got a new engine cross member.
After that I thought that if I wanted a vehicle to drive around the world in, it would be an LJ50 !!!
I took lots of slides which I could convert to pics if anyone is interested in looking at them.
But as I said I love my old Disco and would never part with it.

Cheers.

Robert.

PS: the reason for the trip in the first place was because I had previously read Edward John Eyre's diary where he stood on Mount Hopeless and thought he was stopped by a ring of salt lakes. I had an army survey map that said that the exact location of Mount Hopeless was at that time unknown. I decided that it would be fun to bushbash up the east side of the Flinders to find it, which I did. when I got to the north of the Flinders I figured that the dry watercourses must lead to high ground, so I kept travelling up different courses and eventually saw a tiny speck on the horizon which turned out to be Mount Hopless. I climbed it, added a rock of my own to Edwards pile ( I had carried that rock from my home for just that purpase ) and felt quite smug about the whole thing.
First tho I had wanted to circumnavigate Lake Ayre and check out the Simpson again. I had first bushbashed the Simson in 63.