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Thanks peoples, for the friendly responses and advice. Co1, I'm bending in the same direction re the wheels, will try to resist the urge to bling it up a bit.
| Slideywindows Member Since: 09 Sep 2016 Location: North Essex Posts: 1283  
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A great read.
But don't let the Land Rover get too much of a hold on you. You might be in danger of developing a lust for a rusty old Series next......  |
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8th Dec 2018 10:33pm |
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| Wild Card 90 Member Since: 03 Dec 2014 Location: Gerlingen Posts: 1060 
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You´re on the right track with keeping those white steel wheels. Looks just right on an Epsom green 90 Pickup.
And that in the Highlands, with a touch of Royal provenance. If you haven´t already fulfilled all the personal cliches with green wellies, a Barbour and such, it would be tempting to do so. 1998 Tdi 90 SW,
2008 Td4 90 SW, 2012 2.2 90 SW, 2" raised Trailmaster/Terrafirma Heavy Track Raids, 255 MTs, Recaro CSs, anorak, wellingtons |
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9th Dec 2018 10:16am |
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| Leroy Member Since: 20 Nov 2018 Location: Western Highlands Posts: 15 
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Funny you should say that, Wild Card 90.
Here's a very recent shot of me taken in outback Australia in 1840, where I worked as a drover. I knew that kit would come in handy again one day. Must get it out of mothballs and go wild haggis shooting. And work on my accent a bit.  Click image to enlarge |
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9th Dec 2018 11:48am |
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| Wild Card 90 Member Since: 03 Dec 2014 Location: Gerlingen Posts: 1060
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 1998 Tdi 90 SW,
2008 Td4 90 SW, 2012 2.2 90 SW, 2" raised Trailmaster/Terrafirma Heavy Track Raids, 255 MTs, Recaro CSs, anorak, wellingtons |
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9th Dec 2018 12:34pm |
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| defender9 Member Since: 12 Mar 2016 Location: Fylde Coast Posts: 1629 
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Nice interesting write up, welcome to the forum.
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9th Dec 2018 7:00pm |
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| Wild Card 90 Member Since: 03 Dec 2014 Location: Gerlingen Posts: 1060
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I had to look up what a Drover is.
And while I was about it came up with a new name for LR´s new vehicle. Due to its modern connected wireless ability, and aspirations to fulfill the needs of its livestock keeping customers.... they could simply name it LAN-DROVER.  
Cheap and simple. 1998 Tdi 90 SW, 2008 Td4 90 SW, 2012 2.2 90 SW, 2" raised Trailmaster/Terrafirma Heavy Track Raids, 255 MTs, Recaro CSs, anorak, wellingtons |
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10th Dec 2018 4:59pm |
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| Leroy Member Since: 20 Nov 2018 Location: Western Highlands Posts: 15
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Actually, if you ever listen to a "proper" (ie country) Ozzie talking about LRs - as they commonly used to do in the days that Deffoes ruled in the rural scene out there..... And in the Oz Army, who had thousands of them....
(ie Before LandCruisers toppled them from their monopolistic heights, and long before the advent in Oz of such peripheral poncy abominations as LR Discos and Range Roosters....) ........ that's the way it's been pronounced for decades. I grew up saying it that way, always thought that it was a single word, and that was the correct way to say it. ie LAN (slight pause) DROVER. And you had to have (or at least hire) a dusty, fleabitten drover's dog to sit in it. With just enough room left to squeeze a few extremely smelly and woolly jumbucks in. (though us city folk really never use that word, except when singing our national anthem, Waltzing Matilda - as one was, and still is, prone to doing after a few beers) |
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10th Dec 2018 6:09pm |
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| Wild Card 90 Member Since: 03 Dec 2014 Location: Gerlingen Posts: 1060
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Thanks for clearing that up, Leroy.
You´re right. That´s how it is pronounced.
But heavens, now you´ve got me looking up "Jumbuck".  1998 Tdi 90 SW,
2008 Td4 90 SW, 2012 2.2 90 SW, 2" raised Trailmaster/Terrafirma Heavy Track Raids, 255 MTs, Recaro CSs, anorak, wellingtons |
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10th Dec 2018 6:47pm |
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| Leroy Member Since: 20 Nov 2018 Location: Western Highlands Posts: 15
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I do hope ewe find what ewe're lookin' for, Wild Card 90.
And don't let the Official Ozzie Encyclopedia of Fact and Fable pull the wool over your eyes with some of the shear nonsense it has in it. |
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10th Dec 2018 10:01pm |
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| Adam17 Member Since: 15 May 2018 Location: Within Bedfordshire Posts: 1193 
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LOL - love it!  Regards
Adam Loving The Duchess The Defender 110 TD5 XS My Defender story - http://www.defender2.net/forum/topic64005.html |
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11th Dec 2018 10:31am |
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| williamthedog Member Since: 29 Dec 2012 Location: south wales Posts: 3441 
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Didn't some Asian car manufacturer call their pick up a Jumbuck. Didn't like it that much anyway. 😐 |
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11th Dec 2018 3:35pm |
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| Leroy Member Since: 20 Nov 2018 Location: Western Highlands Posts: 15
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Yep, it was a little FrontWD pickup from a Malaysian company if my rapidly fading memory serves me correctly. Can't recall the brand (Proton?? Something nuclear anyway?) because they only sold for a few years and as far as I know that was the only model sold. The pikkie I found here was clearly of a relatively cosseted one, probably owned by somebody who didn't want a Range Rooster to carry his toys in.
They were pretty ordinary, to put it politely, but strangely enough, farmers bought them by the hundreds, because they were reasonably well built for a piece of crap car, because useful small utes (what Ozzies call pickups) were not in great supply, and mainly because they were small change prices - probably the cheapest vehicle you could buy then. Didn't last long, but were OK for thrashing around the (usually dry and dusty, but OK for a 2WD) paddocks collecting dead ewes and dessicated dingoes, usually without ever being licensed for road use. The farm girls (jilleroos) and boys (jackeroos) would beat them to death doing bog laps (an Oz expression I believe?), donuts, and failed attempts at wheelies in the home paddock (probably only a couple of thousand square miles on the smaller farms) after work, and challenging the local emus and roos to a race until the suspension collapsed. The emus and roos usually won, or became bonnet mascots. Ah, such good clean fun was had. I did know someone who actually had one for several years in the city. They hated it. |
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11th Dec 2018 5:03pm |
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| Wild Card 90 Member Since: 03 Dec 2014 Location: Gerlingen Posts: 1060
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That "Proton Jumbuck" (twice a day, not on an empty stomach) looks ok for compact ute, if a little ordinary.
Well, apart from the colour, the 80´s plastic wheel caps and the horrible tailgate logo. Unfortunately, ordinary usually sells quite well, particularly when the price is right. Thoroughly enjoying the Ozzi banter! 1998 Tdi 90 SW,
2008 Td4 90 SW, 2012 2.2 90 SW, 2" raised Trailmaster/Terrafirma Heavy Track Raids, 255 MTs, Recaro CSs, anorak, wellingtons |
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12th Dec 2018 6:17am |
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| L110CDL Member Since: 31 Oct 2015 Location: Devon Posts: 10751
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Welcome and a very nice pick up you got there
1996 Golf Blue 300Tdi 110 Pick up.
Keeper. Clayton. |
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12th Dec 2018 10:19pm |
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