Thread: the wave?

Just did the round trip from Adelaide to Sydney over Easter.

Didn't see too many Landies of any sort on the country roads, but waved to all of those that I did see.

Grand total of return waves = 0. Thats zero, zilch, nada, nothing.

I got a better response from the truckies.

Even had a FFRR give me the death stare, like how dare I even LOOK as his automobile.

Best one I ever got was about 100m from home. We were leaving in the D2 and another one exactly the same came around the corner. We both waved, at the same time, and SWMBO asked who that was. Dunno, but he drives a great car.

I spent Easter through to the ANZAC day LWE down at the south coast, I got about 75% return rate on the wave while there from Defender, D2 and D4 drivers. Had a hard time getting anyone in a RR to respond but that's no surprise!

Long live the Landy Wave!!

Bahahaha, you gotta love this! the missus & I were so busy waving at a fellow defender owner the other morning that I completely missed my turn arrow.
Oh we'll all for a good cause!

And my other excuse is that it was very early!!!

Regards all, Chris

Related to the wave I guess is bumping into another forum member whilst traveling. Had the pleasure of meeting Redback ( Baz ), wife and daughter at Arkaroola a few days ago. We had been doing the self drive 4wd route on the property and they noticed we had a blown out spare on the roof ( actually the spare spare ) . Next day they kindly let us follow them to Copley so we could buy another tyre before continuing on to the Oodnadatta Track and Uluru. So far have seen more Landies that expected and waves from all but Baz's offer of an escort was much appreciated and also nice to chat to someone else on the UHF than my wife ( especially as our hi line audio died the day we left ). Baz an update for you we are able to buy a replacement rim in Alice next week. Will be praying to the wheel and tyre gods for the rest of the trip. The trailer park lights turned out to just be a blown fuse so all works as tested pre-trip.

I was waiting in traffic this arvo when a guy in a D1 coasted up beside me. I noticed he was taking a good look at my D3 so I gave him a thumbs up. He gave me the slowest non smiling nod you can imagine and keep moving. Must not have thought much of my new fangled contraption

Originally Posted by Dagilmo

I've been giving it a go with hit and miss results. The only guaranteed hit, is my wife laughing when I don't get a wave back

Agree with country yes, city not so much.

Will keep putting out there in-spite/because of, the wife's chuckling.

I am glad that someone else's wife finds it as amusing as mine does!

And, unfortunately, as other poster's have commented, she also fails to recognize other Landrovers on the road when she is driving, so I would guarantee that she would not return a wave.....

Pat

I try to wave to all LR owners and have only ever had one response, which was from a D2 driver near my house! My son also waves in his D1, with similar results.

I was surprised to see a few local D3's and D4's at Alice Springs when I was passing through last year. More there than I saw on the rest of the trip to Darwin and back. No one waved though!

Apart from Disco drivers, I wave to campers and caravaners when I am on the road in my camper trailer or caravan. You get almost 100% return waves with this group.

Bob

When in the country I wave to anyone but when back in Sydney it's certainly a more somber affair. Will bring back the wave though in Sydney to Landy drivers!!