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Newbie saying Hi
« on: April 08, 2013, 05:38:05 pm »
Hi,

Good to see a UK based forum.  I hope it goes from strength to strength.

I don't have a Unimog at the moment but am hoping to get my first one in the next few months.  It will be a 404 of some type.

My recent 4x4 history has been a string of 80 series Land Cruisers ranging from a battered but very capable off road toy to a nice tidy overland vehicle. 

I don't know why I want a 404, it is just an itch that needs to be scratched.. 

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« Reply #1 on: April 08, 2013, 06:45:11 pm »
Hi Ian,

welcome to the club  :)
good machine the land cruiser, robust and plenty of them abroad  8)

The 404 is a good chassis, but needs some modification to be as good as some mogs off road, they were built to be squady proof, so the suspension and stuff is stiff, so not very flexible, but once thats sorted theyre a very capable vehicle :) a good chassis for a hobby mog as well. what are you planning to do with it?

and trust me, once you scratch that itch, the itch will spread  ;)

any questions, just ask  :P

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« Reply #2 on: April 08, 2013, 06:54:17 pm »
Hi Brian,

Thanks for the welcome and getting the site up and running.

The plan is for it to be an off road toy.  I am lucky enough to live within a few miles of land used by the MOD for driver training.  Various 4x4 clubs get onto the land so there is plenty of space to play.

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« Reply #3 on: April 08, 2013, 09:51:41 pm »
dad and myself got fed up with people saying there should be a site, so in the end i took it into my own hands  ;) :D
we're in  the leeds region, but we're no where near any off road sites  :( but we're willing to travel a fair distance to have a play with the mogs  ;D
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Re: Newbie saying Hi
« Reply #4 on: April 09, 2013, 02:51:11 pm »
Welcome to the forum Ian.

It sounds like you're in the perfect place for mog ownership - near to a 4x4 venue that don't mind kit this big rutting the place up! I'm not sure if there is anywhere like that local to me, although like you I'm looking into mog ownership and don't actually have one yet. I want a 406 so I can use it for work and play.
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« Reply #5 on: April 09, 2013, 08:10:18 pm »
Welcome aboard Ian.
 Hope you enjoy the banter and info strewn around the site.
I've only ever seen one kitted land cruiser and it looked good. i'm a defender man my self and love mine to bits  ;D
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« Reply #6 on: April 09, 2013, 09:38:03 pm »
Quote from: casto on April 09, 2013, 08:10:18 pm
i'm a defender man my self and love mine to bits  ;D

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« Reply #7 on: April 09, 2013, 09:38:53 pm »
actually might make the words landrover and defender censored on here  :D ;D
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« Reply #8 on: April 10, 2013, 07:08:33 am »
My truck is awesome   ;D
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« Reply #9 on: April 10, 2013, 08:59:18 am »
In the spirit of a bit of banter, 3 of us headed off on a drive down to the Sahara in Libya.  This was before the trouble.  There were 2 80 series cruisers and a LR 110.  The 110 driver wanted to take France a bit slower than we were planning to in the cruisers so set off a few days before us.  The plan was to meet at a hotel just outside Marseille the day before the Mediterranean ferry crossing.

Well his car broke down on the way to Dover but was fixed,  it then broke down again just inside France but was fixed again, it then did it a third time just outside Paris and had to be recovered back to UK.  His holiday was over before we had even left home.  Needless to say the 2 Land Cruisers performed faultlessly for the whole trip.  We did bring him back a plastic water bottle full of sand as a memento  ;D

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« Reply #10 on: April 10, 2013, 09:03:39 am »
I am also a great fan of the "75% of Land Rovers ever made are still on the road" statistic.  They always seem to miss the last half of the quote off though "the other 25% made it home"  ;D
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« Reply #11 on: April 10, 2013, 02:56:16 pm »
Quote from: IanRubie on April 10, 2013, 09:03:39 am
I am also a great fan of the "75% of Land Rovers ever made are still on the road" statistic.  They always seem to miss the last half of the quote off though "the other 25% made it home"  ;D

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« Reply #12 on: April 10, 2013, 07:51:12 pm »
Mogs broken down more than my landy  ;D :P
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« Reply #13 on: April 10, 2013, 07:53:00 pm »
I suddenly don't want a Mog if that is the case  :'(
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« Reply #14 on: April 10, 2013, 08:14:09 pm »
thats because the guy who bought his mog of the scotish council made an agreement to scrap it. couple of months later it had been sold to casto here. so im afraid casto, thats no argument ;) our mogs very rarely brake down  :)
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