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Actually the Disco is back and it has got a digital read-out so not so sure why it's not in there.

More importantly the much coveted Honda Prelude MK4 is not on there either which is one of the more well known digi-dialled cars.

Straight Outta Compton (or Pistonheads to be precise)

http://www.doubleyoudigital.nl/~cars_digital%20dashboards.php

But I've got a 650 front wheel and fork and need the stem to work with it. Will any of these? JD?

Is the freezer full of meat?

Hahahaha. Wish I was there bitches.

or do it yourself? A hammer will be useful.

The trick is not to leave them on the table. I did that with a pair of £280 IEM (headphones). Nothing handed in to the bar (Hampstead Heath - no jokes).

Funnily enough a week later was talking to a lad who was there the week before who handed them in to the bar manager. Amazingly he suddenly remembered they had been handed in when I asked again, yet for some reason they weren't behind the bar and could only get them for the next day, hmmm....

Just wondering if any of those stems will work with my 650 front?

Cheers.

Clearly no one on this page has been to Dorset...

More funny town names without having to force it per square mile than anywhere in the world.

Scratchy Bottom
Piddleton (along with a plethora of other 'piddle' prefixes)
Piddlepuddle (as above)
Happy Bottom
Shitterton
Golden Cap (sure there is a euph there)
Blackmanston
Bishops Caundle
Ryme Intrinseca
Plush
Trotter's Corner, etc, etc.

If I could be bothered to look at all my Garmin routes I could probably come up with a hundred.

Herts joke is full of fail.

...is an inference of his hooliganism.

Arvy will have some explaining to do I should think.

Looking forward to seeing you Mobs. Goodwood revival anyone (assuming I still have a courtesy car ;)).

I broke down yesterday on the M3 in the new Disco...

Land Rover Ownership; love it.

Have a RRS Autobiography as a courtesy car. Feel like a footballer driving it, not happy.

Oh yeah. So they know everything... lol

Is that against a std Volvo or does your insurance know what you've done to it.

Bring it to BMW tonight and I'll do some donuts for you if you bring the camera!

Let someone else drive... ;)

Great photos Saadat.

Why we no see any sideways action of the MX-5

^I was thinking the same.

You could do this for more songs than I care to consider.

Sasmon on here has had some, erm, 'interesting' experience in a SS at Brands I think it was.

I can guarantee you you'll be using clutched sequential shifting though..

Thanks for the info on spots guys. However I think I'll need something a little more serious. She is SORN'd and uninsured atm and don't have a trailer to get to London, plus I don't really want to leave something like that parked up for an extended period of time.

TBH if I do this it'll be for at least a year with no work done due to the recent purchase and just wanting to get over the constant costs. She'd need to be dry-stored for that sort of time otherwise she'd disintegrate wherever I left her (a few small spots have started to rot which need a quick sort). Going to see if I can find anyone who does this in the local area. It would make more sense if I could store it until I have a house and can garage her really.

Not sure. I have 3 people who want to buy it (all in the industry) and I haven't even attempted selling her yet so she would go easy. But it would be like pimping my youngest daughter.

I've just spent the afternoon under the hood with a mechanic (not a euph) and good news. The Rangie doesn't have a cracked cylinder liner. Been through a lot and have got her running closer to where she should be. Still no where near, but closer.

Next up is the ignition timer and injectors. As i mentioned one of the banks was running over-lean which I thought was due to coolant having got on the lambda and buggered it up. A quick flip of lambdas from one side to the other showed that wasn't the problem. Anyway, good news.

Only thing to do now is work out where the hell I can keep her off the road...

^^God no.

If your talking about the shiney bodied fenders then they are original, just back to bare band shined.

Ah then sir should look at an older machine, that needs a chasis swap (rusted and failed MOT), bigger engine (as the original didn't have its oil levels checked enough), from maybe a jag, then the nice seats from something and then the suspension lightly modified.....two sets of wheels, one for on road another for offroading......

That's exactly what I would do. However as I can only have one car due to parking restrictions I need something reliable and on the road immediately. The Range has cost me too much in money as well as lost profits recently to make something like that a vehicle that I would rely upon daily and I also needed something sharpish. That's why I bought a Land Rover! ;)

Seriously... No! it ain't.

I was so close to buying a defender and thought I'd try what else was in my price range. I love them, but never as a first/main car.

1st gear in the puma engined fenders is the 4-pot from a transit van but with a jigged gear box designed for towing. This means that 1st gear gets you to approx 5mph before it's revving the nuts off itself. I tried a few remapped examples and the fix of increasing power to allow you to use 2nd instead of 1st to pull away just doesn't fly. The anti-stall system does its job well there though.

Speed is limited to 82mph and at anything above 45 the road noise, engine noise and blow around the wing mirrors is truely unbearable, that plus the wind rushing through the panel gaps!

The only slice of comfort/luxury comes from the 'half'-leather seats (less half, more the edges) and the single cd stereo. The driving position will not suit anyone over my height and you have nowhere to put your right arm, apart from crushed right up against your body and door.

The 90's are too short for their set up to be bearable on road as every pot-hole and bump is transferred right through your spine. The 110 is better due to the length ans isn't a bad drive, but you will not see anything behind you when parking (almost everyone buys an after market camera).

Rear space is vastly limited (even in the 110) due to the wheel arches leaving about 18" width load space.

Amazingly LR still don't galvanise their chassis.

They are also still the same design from 40 years ago.

After the last defender I drove I had a few days of drives in EVERYTHING that was a possibility for me. Cayenne GTS/FFRR/MercML/GL/M/Disco/X5M/Landcruiser/Navaro (all but the XC90 - I'm not Jilly Cooper middle England I hope;)). And honestly the Defender fell so far behind I was astonished.

I truly LOVE the defender. It's a British icon. It's hands down the best off-road car in the world and the fact that in 2 years time they will no longer be making it makes it even more appealing right now. But I simply couldn't go for it. If it was a 2nd car or a toy then no questions I would have bought one. But as a daily driver it is horrific. Around town it is unusable.

It is the one car in the road which is an off-roader which can be used on the road, but that's it's downfall for me. Unless it's going to be used mainly for off-roading to an insane degree than your kidding yourself it's a decent car. The Disco is the best off-roading car in the world and if you look on youtube you'll see that there is almost nothing it can't do. This is true of most of the 4X4s around these days. They just work in a different way using electricity to make it possible rather than sheer basic-ness.

If your names are Simon Bush and Lindsay Mottram and you call your defender 'The Beast', then your better off with an off road going car.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WSqwBnOUH0

Don't see you in the photo Arv.

It had better look like this within a couple of weeks

Those wrap around's are insane.

I'm nervous about cutting the sill plastics, not sure I'll be drilling out holes for spots! ;)

Zoolander?