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| spudfan Member Since: 10 Sep 2007 Location: Co Donegal Posts: 4739  
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Our eldest daughter arrived home for Christmas yesterday evening (Christmas Eve) in her Defender 90. She got the 90 last year and it is her first car. It is not festooned with fluffy dice or scented air fresheners but filled with other stuff. The photos will speak for them selves. She maintains her 90 is a working vehicle and well the photos bear this out.
For Christmas her boyfriend bought her a boiler suit ...yep a boiler suit and it was very well received. The logic behind this being that when her college course gets back to being held in a bricks and mortar setting instead of on line (she is studying speech and language) she can go and attend to her horse before going to college by putting on the boiler suit then removing it when she has finished her horsey business and head straight to college. She says that she does wash the 90 but a day or so later it ends up looking "normal" as in the photos. There are photos here of her shifting bales of bedding in the back of the 90 and even a cement mixer. She has just told me the recently she shifted cow dung. The cow dung was in bags she hastened to inform me. Just prior to Christmas she managed to pass her trailer test. Now it seems that a horse box is on her radar. A definite possible forum member in future years methinks! Anyway " Nollaig Shona Daoibh". (Yeah that's Happy Christmas in the local vernacular)  Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge 1982 88" 2.25 diesel 1992 110 200tdi csw -Zikali 2008 110 2.4 tdci csw-Zulu 2011 110 2.4 tdci csw-Masai |
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25th Dec 2020 9:52pm |
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| Rashers Member Since: 21 Jun 2015 Location: Norfolk Posts: 3564  
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Excellent post spudfan
Happy Christmas to you too  |
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25th Dec 2020 10:31pm |
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| Wild Card 90 Member Since: 03 Dec 2014 Location: Gerlingen Posts: 1060  
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Now that is a real Defender! Excellent story.
1998 Tdi 90 SW,
2008 Td4 90 SW, 2012 2.2 90 SW, 2" raised Trailmaster/Terrafirma Heavy Track Raids, 255 MTīs, Recaro CSīs, anorak, wellingtons |
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26th Dec 2020 1:01pm |
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| shropshiredefender Member Since: 05 Jun 2017 Location: Shropshire Posts: 834 
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Proper Land Rover being used correctly
Just because you're offended doesn't mean you're right. |
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26th Dec 2020 1:06pm |
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| Procta Member Since: 03 Dec 2016 Location: Sunderland Posts: 5236
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I have only bathed my TD5 once since i got it and the 306 was last year, i am such a lazy B......
But my mam bought me some polish for the TD5 in black so i should really give it a full blown go over, the 306 on the other hand needs a good respray sadly, the paint work needs it, as its sod to match and a few repairs i have had sorted 11 years ago are failing now. But the car is 20 years old next year. Defender TD5 90 ---/--- Peugeot 306 HDI hatch back Success is 90% Inspiration and 4 minutes Preparation # you can make it! |
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30th Dec 2020 2:41am |
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| Procta Member Since: 03 Dec 2016 Location: Sunderland Posts: 5236
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Spuds can you ask your daughter get a remover able steering wheel,
Defender TD5 90 ---/--- Peugeot 306 HDI hatch back
Success is 90% Inspiration and 4 minutes Preparation # you can make it! |
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30th Dec 2020 2:42am |
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| ARC99 Member Since: 19 Feb 2013 Location: North Yorkshire Posts: 1831 
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Perhaps a dog guard/load screen should be on the list having screen recently what damage a flying chair can do when left loose in the back of a car. Don't make old people mad.
We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to  us off.
Richard |
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30th Dec 2020 9:46am |
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| spudfan Member Since: 10 Sep 2007 Location: Co Donegal Posts: 4739
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I have mentioned it.....
This was this morning before she left. We had some sleet last night which froze. Click image to enlarge 1982 88" 2.25 diesel 1992 110 200tdi csw -Zikali 2008 110 2.4 tdci csw-Zulu 2011 110 2.4 tdci csw-Masai |
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30th Dec 2020 11:07am |
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| discomog Member Since: 09 May 2015 Location: Notts/Lincs Border Posts: 2535 
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Hi Spudfan, just out of curiosity is she allowed to keep it on UK plates in ROI or is she living over the border in NI? (Nice to see someone so young wanting a Defender). Defender 90XS SW
Mini Countryman Cooper S Morgan Plus 8 |
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30th Dec 2020 11:42am |
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| spudfan Member Since: 10 Sep 2007 Location: Co Donegal Posts: 4739
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She lives in Northern Ireland as she is at college there.
She spent here whole life with our Defenders so knows their ideosyncracies, so it was a natural choice. Nothing else would have suited her really. 1982 88" 2.25 diesel 1992 110 200tdi csw -Zikali 2008 110 2.4 tdci csw-Zulu 2011 110 2.4 tdci csw-Masai |
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30th Dec 2020 11:50am |
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| spudfan Member Since: 10 Sep 2007 Location: Co Donegal Posts: 4739
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She sent these from her journey this morning.
Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge 1982 88" 2.25 diesel 1992 110 200tdi csw -Zikali 2008 110 2.4 tdci csw-Zulu 2011 110 2.4 tdci csw-Masai |
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30th Dec 2020 3:54pm |
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| GREENI Member Since: 22 Aug 2010 Location: staffs Posts: 10383
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Proud Dad moment right there.
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30th Dec 2020 6:38pm |
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| spudfan Member Since: 10 Sep 2007 Location: Co Donegal Posts: 4739
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 1982 88" 2.25 diesel
1992 110 200tdi csw -Zikali 2008 110 2.4 tdci csw-Zulu 2011 110 2.4 tdci csw-Masai |
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30th Dec 2020 6:46pm |
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| Mike c Member Since: 11 Aug 2017 Location: Maldon, Essex Posts: 932 
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Great post and photos
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30th Dec 2020 6:48pm |
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