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timbar

Member Since: 30 Jul 2013
Location: Milton Keynes
Posts: 245

2009 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 XS CSW Stornoway Grey

1. Get the dash off and find that leak
2. Off to Motor Safari probasbly end spring
3. Trip with family up west coast Scotland
4. Get a Hannibal, Patriot or FlatDog rack (probably latter, based on price)
5. Get the family abroad somewhere! 2009 110 XS Station Wagon

6th Jan 2014 12:17pm

bob neville

Member Since: 30 Apr 2009
Location: Marbella
Posts: 3248

WelshGas wrote:

RETIRE in November after 42 years.

Ditto - retire this year as well after 42 years

Bob 2015 Jaguar XE240 R Sport - goes like ....... !!
2013 Defender 90 CSW - sold
2009 Defender 110 Double Cab - sold
2001 TD5 90 CSW - offroad project - sold to a forum member
2011 Porsche Boxster - for the sunny days !

6th Jan 2014 12:20pm

excossack

Member Since: 22 Feb 2012
Location: North West
Posts: 5857

1999 Defender 110 Td5 SW Caledonian Blue

MartinK wrote:
No, mate, just a major refurb for me... Knocking-down 2 flat-roof extensions, and replacing them with new, bigger, pitched-roof ones... And a large garage

Excellent - a large garage (or large man cave) with a seating area, washing hands area and a workshop PC ready for diving onto the forums and a few CAT5 sockets just in case! 1999 Defender TD5 110

Regards
John M0VAZ
Econet Station 48 no clock

6th Jan 2014 12:37pm

roamingman

Member Since: 15 Mar 2012
Location: nearly thier
Posts: 152

munch90 wrote:
GO ON A DIET !!!!

sorry wrong post Live Life Ti'l You Die
Teddys are out thier

http://teddybearspicnic.webs.com
http://130sasha.co.uk/

6th Jan 2014 2:51pm

roamingman

Member Since: 15 Mar 2012
Location: nearly thier
Posts: 152

cornish rattler wrote:
LandRoverAnorak wrote:
Various Land Rover projects that have been sitting in the garage for far too long (rev counter, cruise control, rear work light,ect) and do some more to my Sankey trailer. More immediately though, is finishing building a model railway room in my garage

A model railway room is what I plan to do with my garage when I retire and can't I am only 52 so another 48 years to go then

I am lucky retired and have train room in spare bedroom. Live Life Ti'l You Die
Teddys are out thier

http://teddybearspicnic.webs.com
http://130sasha.co.uk/

6th Jan 2014 2:54pm

cornish rattler

Member Since: 31 Aug 2013
Location: Manchester
Posts: 642

1988 Defender 90 200 Tdi CSW Bronze Green

Nice

Graham

1988 Defender 90 county 200tdi ( Beast )

Paul Walker 1973-2013
( I Almost Had You )

6th Jan 2014 3:25pm

excossack

Member Since: 22 Feb 2012
Location: North West
Posts: 5857

roamingman wrote:
cornish rattler wrote:
LandRoverAnorak wrote:
Various Land Rover projects that have been sitting in the garage for far too long (rev counter, cruise control, rear work light,ect) and do some more to my Sankey trailer. More immediately though, is finishing building a model railway room in my garage

A model railway room is what I plan to do with my garage when I retire and can't I am only 52 so another 48 years to go then

I am lucky retired and have train room in spare bedroom.

My Hornby triple rail and double rail is still waiting to be put together and used. (Electric and Clock work) 1999 Defender TD5 110

Regards
John M0VAZ
Econet Station 48 no clock

6th Jan 2014 4:11pm

cornish rattler

Member Since: 31 Aug 2013
Location: Manchester
Posts: 642

Something I have always wanted from when I was a kid, I did start doing a railway circuit when I was a young teenager in our spare room but my younger brother messes about with it and damaged it so I gave up in the end but I have always wanted one ever since so if I am able to enjoy my retirement then I will have another go but this time it will be in my garage which is 18'6" x 18'3"

Graham

1988 Defender 90 county 200tdi ( Beast )

Paul Walker 1973-2013
( I Almost Had You )

6th Jan 2014 5:37pm

Birdy

Member Since: 07 Oct 2011
Location: CÃ´te d'Azur
Posts: 868

2011 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 XS CSW Santorini Black

January: Defender to Germany; BOOT Boat Show in Düsseldorf.
February: sell current boat and (too small for new boat) mooring; have the larger boat on the Thames which I’ve been offered surveyed.
March: Defender to steel boat manufacturer’s Open Day in Holland, buy boat from them if I haven’t already bought the s/h one on the Thames.
April: Using hotel already booked in St Albans as a base, a bit of touring in the Defender; bring new boat home from Shepperton or Maasbracht.
May: MOT the Morgan; wash the cars for the first time this year; play with the boat;
June: Using routes from sites like this, do the same thing in the Morgan, eventually ending up in my gaff near St Tropez. Did the Route des Grandes Alpes and Col de La Bonette last year as soon as the passes were opened, this year it’ll be through Andorra to Seu d'Urgell, the La Molina, Ripoll, Céret area in the Pyrénées, then along the coast (Argelès Plage, Port-Barcarès, Agde, Sète, Martigues, La Grande-Motte, Aigues-Mortes…).
July: Spend all of June and July in the South of France, return to the UK (Castellane, Guillestre, Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne, Bonneval-sur-Arc, Bourg-St.-Maurice, Ugine, Toisinges, Lons-le-Saunier…) before it gets TOO hot; .
August: Defender’s 1st MOT; cruise the Southern Broads and a bit of coast-hopping.
September: Tour France’s Champagne area with the Morgan Car Club.
October: Two weeks in Tenerife.
November: Wife’s birthday - river cruise Amsterdam, Bruges etc.; wash the cars for the second time this year.
December: Christmas again!

Also promised myself a little Scotland tour (outside school holidays, of course!), namely Kendal, Newby Bridge, Ambleside, Helensburgh/Luss, Arrochar, Crarae, Lochgilphead, Oban, Glenfinnan/Arisaig/Mallaig, Couple of days on Skye, then Broadford, Achintee, Applecross, Fearnmore, Kinlochewe, Gairloch, Gruinard to Torridon or Ullapool, Elphin, Clashnessie, Drumbeg, Laxford Bridge, Durness , Thurso, John O’Groats, Wick, Lybster, Golspie, Dornoch, Tain, Nairn to Grantown on Spey, Glenlivet, Ballater, Blairgowrie, Glen Clova, Glen Esk, North Berwick, Holy Island, Whitby then home.

Life’s hard when you’re retired, innit!

Peter

p.s to previous posters: shoot the dogs or get them trained; how do you annoy a model railway enthusiast? Tell him you too had a train set when you were a kid.

6th Jan 2014 6:25pm

Philslandy

Member Since: 10 Sep 2013
Location: Eifel
Posts: 156

Get started with the full restoration of my series IIa/109 from 1966.
I bought it all in pieces from a friend.

6th Jan 2014 6:36pm

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