I'm in southern Sydney and drive a white D4 with a snorkel and roof rack. My wife thinks i'm crazy when I wave at every discovery... I dont care... I'll just keep waving.
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I'm in southern Sydney and drive a white D4 with a snorkel and roof rack. My wife thinks i'm crazy when I wave at every discovery... I dont care... I'll just keep waving.
I've only known it to be a Defender wave. It's not just a wave but you look into each others minds & think;
How's your wife enjoying getting her knees frozen complaining about the A/C making her legs cold?
Or, enjoying that trickle of water that spills on your feet when you drive away after its rained?
Or, don't you just LOVE Lucas electrics..
Or, got that oil in injector harness problem yet? How's your driveline backlash going? Had the doors pop open on the highway?
It's so more than a wave, you're a owner & mechanic, its a unique driving experience & a pleasure to work on.
As nice as my D4 is I'd take back my 110 any day. I know if I was in my Defender on the side of the HWY, even if only making a phone call, there wouldn't be a defender driver that wouldn't stop to assist.
That was it - damn fine looking convoy!Quote:
Originally Posted by garrycol
I remember when it was just a Land Rover wave!Quote:
Originally Posted by Robocop
I'd stop! In fact I spent a few hours on my xmas trip digging a lone Defender out of the mud near Dogman's Hut, who had been stranded for some time because no Toyota's would stop to help.Quote:
Originally Posted by Robocop
Cheers,
Jon
I dare say pretty much everyone on this site would stop Jon.
When we were there we decided not to fight the mud and turned around. A couple of cars were nearby and it took them a while to get out of it in another area.Quote:
Originally Posted by jon3950
On driving back to Tom Groggin some 4wds had just pulled some sort of japper with a camper who had crossed straight across into the deep water and got drowned. The group rushed down to the river to watch us get drowned but were surprised that we only went axle deep :).
It is a great area and we waved to quite a few landies.
Garry
Garry
I don't think I'll be waving at RRS, L322 and D4 around here, none of them would know what I was on about and may take it the wrong way. Never fear the classics, Defenders and Series will always get the wave if I can.
In fact a 107/109 on West Botany Street last night got the double headlamp flash as I turned up Wickham St, dont know if he was expecting it either.
My DH waves to just about every Land Rover or Range Rover he sees, and I'll have to practice my wave now because he's bought himself a Defender110, and the Sport is now mine.
I do get a few funny looks doing the school run with the winch, spotties, mud tyres, snorkel, missing trim, and pinstriping, not to mention it's custom 'mud-that-won't-wash-off-anymore' paint job:D
Like RoverLander,
I live in the South of Sydney and wave at pretty much anything with an LR badge. My wife and kids think I am mad, but I wave anyway.
Mostly I get ignored, sadly because older model LR's and Discos are probably so surprised to see a D3 wave at them they can not react in time. I do not wave at RRS with 20in rims as there is 100% fail rate and I fell no affiliation with these owners, but everyone else I throw a hand at.
Now (thanks to SBD4) I have read the correct waving etiquette and technique I feel much more empowered to be part of those few drops that hopefully will make a river.
My main problem is that when I commute by car to work I drive a mini so every now and then I want to wave at Land Rovers but that would simply confuse things !!
I wave to other mini drivers which is mostly fine as about 30% are generally attractive women, 30% are probably gay men and the other 30% are people like me who bought a mini for their wives and are now forced to drive that (no great chore) because it is now too cramped for the kids.
Yours in waving,
George
I am so pleased to read a discussion about waves. :D The wife and children think I am a looney when I wave at any Land Rover going past, be that as it may it shall continue. :cool:
My concern is for the road workers though. :o With the many miles I travel up and down the east coast I find very few people acknowledge the road crews. :wasntme: I always raise the right hand index finger from the steering wheel, and always receive a positive response. :) The look of surprise on their faces though is disappointing. :(
Perhaps we LR drivers can bring back basic road etiquette; the acknowledging wave of thanks for allowing a merge etc. ;) We are a close knit community bound by our love of driving truly capable machines steeped in the lore of four wheel drives. :angel: We can show the jonny-come-latelies and less capable machines how to behave on the roads and reinforce for all our intelligence and integrity in choice of motor vehicle. :spudnikwaving:
Cheers
Dom