Snow Snowy G's?
im surprised i havent seen any pictures from members of trips out in the snow yet, i know you have a good covering where you are joe and im sure the girls will have been begging to go out in it, anyone else been on adventures?
Tom
not much snow here yet, bit on the mountains....here's some pictures from earlier this year......
Here was my old girl this morning....
In my country some part has snow 8)
Maybe later I can make some pic with my G, or some expedition pictures, if you are inteterested...
TX
Dawny posted a nice one of their G elsewhere on the net...
Shauny and Dawny enjoying the snow.
Very childish if you ask me, not!! :lol:
Thankyou Mark, Took these pics on my new phone, not bad at all :D
Shaun did have fun, hours of it too :roll:
Bug kid !
im surprised i havent seen any pictures from members of trips out in the snow yet, i know you have a good covering where you are joe and im sure the girls will have been begging to go out in it, anyone else been on adventures?
Tom
Here is one from Oxfordshire. About to head to Southhampton to ship it out. Have aux heater and seats on.
Here is one from Oxfordshire. About to head to Southhampton to ship it out. Have aux heater and seats on.
Is it just the G going back to NZ or are you keeping a presence over here too?
tclynes wrote:im surprised i havent seen any pictures from members of trips out in the snow yet, i know you have a good covering where you are joe and im sure the girls will have been begging to go out in it, anyone else been on adventures?
Tom
Here is one from Oxfordshire. About to head to Southhampton to ship it out. Have aux heater and seats on.
Thats the bugger that was supposed to come out on Sunday!
tanex wrote:Here is one from Oxfordshire. About to head to Southhampton to ship it out. Have aux heater and seats on.
Is it just the G going back to NZ or are you keeping a presence over here too?
Keeping a foot in both camps. Will need a vehicle for UK now . Will find something interesting. G will be in NZ late january.
Maxwell Smart wrote:tanex wrote:Here is one from Oxfordshire. About to head to Southhampton to ship it out. Have aux heater and seats on.
Is it just the G going back to NZ or are you keeping a presence over here too?
Keeping a foot in both camps. Will need a vehicle for UK now . Will find something interesting. G will be in NZ late january.
Out of interest what were the shipping costs?
Out of interest what were the shipping costs?
1880 quid including insurance
tanex wrote:Here is one from Oxfordshire. About to head to Southhampton to ship it out. Have aux heater and seats on.
Is it just the G going back to NZ or are you keeping a presence over here too?
and here is Mr Thorough spending 40 minutes removing the UK "presence"
Now you see , that is the colour of champions!
Nice G and great Colour!
Spider1V
Now you see , that is the colour of champions!
Nice G and great Colour!
Thank you
Did my best to avoid Black and Silver. Sensible diesel engine . The 400cdi may have been a worry down here. Dont need worry.
Nice G and great Colour!
Spider1V
Glad to see you liking a G made the way they were meant to be.... LHD and diesel!!! :lol:
Spider1V wrote:Nice G and great Colour!
Spider1V
Glad to see you liking a G made the way they were meant to be.... LHD and diesel!!! :lol:
Mr Smart - we been at the xmas cheer early???? I only mentioned the paint job, and not the engine or position of the steering wheel :roll:
Still a nice G though
Spider1V
Merry White Christmas :D
Russ
O come on I posted a vid last week already!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cgg5_0kblfs
Not this year (G is in Tenerife, so not much snow to tread), but snowy pictures anyway:
Went for a play in the snow today :)
Couldn’t get any further as a dirty great tractor snow plough had given up just beyond this point.
So discretion seemed the better part of valour and all that. Fun but no sun and too cold really :lol:
Russ,
THat looks great! All our Snow has gone, now just flooded roads and rain down here :(
Spider1V
Me earlier on today. Some friends had some problems getting water and feed to their horses - their Landy was on the blocks (nothing new there - as G day will find out! :wink: ) So Spider1V and his G to the rescue.
Beautiful (the G, not the bloke, that is) :lol:
Joe glad to see you could battle through that huge covering of snow it looked very deep there :lol: and that somone has followed the trail :lol:
G Day,
Thanks. It was tough going, had to engage my diff's just to make sure! Managed to get home safe and sound though.
Spider1V :roll: :wink:
BTW - is that your new Blue Landrover you have in your avitar?
Yes. its silver not blue with that black chequer plate stuff its a TD5 not new you can do more with the engine tune than on a TD4.
As Russ will no doubt testify I seem to spend my life swapping vehicles just to have a play with something different. Have to save the Rangie it replaces sets a record I have been driving for 33 years and in that time its the car I have owned for the longest period (35.5 months!) which says something.
I have no doubt that another G will be on the drive at some point but untill then the 90 replaces the Rangie and the 280.
I look forward to some "stick" at the next time we meet :lol:
BTW light weight doesn't half make a difference in these conditions as you will have seen from Russ280's post the lanes round where I live are a little interesting, offering 4 ways out all at 1 in 3 plus in places some worse, not for the fainted hearted on ungritted sheet ice, not saying a G wouldn't do it but I would perhaps a SWB G would do better like the 90, the lighter weight helps sure helps :shock:, up hill no issues for either............ unless we get to J turns...............
Here's a few from Somerset. No problems for the G anywhere including getting up and down some steep slopes on and around The Mendips. One hairy moment on the way down in low range, 1st when it just started sliding on the ice without the application of the brakes. Soon found some snow on the edge to get traction from though.
This was taken crossing the north Yorkshire moors the snow was very deep in places but we had no problems.
I’ve pulled three vehicles out of the snow this winter!!
Griff
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did you get my text Joe? nightingales is fanstastic, i heard the QM2 is stopping there on its next world cruise!
lovely pictures though, glad i started the thread now, and some great pictures their russ, sadly im g-less so all i did was go sledging and do some long term damage to my coccyx going over a ramp!
here are my token images though, this one my friend Dr. Brown going over the same ramp that left me in agony and another of me and the lady
Happy new year to all
Tom