Hey Syd !
In answer to your two questions, I 'haunt, as you say, LR sites because there are so many cheeky, oh, did I say that, I meant Cheery blokes like you. Your somewhat confused diatribe on history was amusing.
I like working on cars. I find it relaxing, and I'm not bad at it. I've had, oh, maybe 15 LRs in the past thirty years, and they afford me more opportunity to work on them than most any other interesting vegicles. If they didn't break so often, I could always go back to Jags, Healys, MGs, all the old classics.
In asnswer to your second question, I do acxtually have a couple US built 4X4s, a FORD (Oh, shudder the thought) It isn't so much fun as my 110, I guess cuz it hasn't broken yet, but then it's only going on 9 yearss old and 180,000 miles. As we get the odd 80" of snow, it earns it's keep. Dang if it doesn't always start, and warm up too. I guess that it can and regularly does tow a 4 ton trailer and tractor would make it unusual to those better informed than me, but hey, I'm just a dumb yank.
I think the quotes I've read in the LR rags was 70% of series vehicles were still working (at what cost, on never mind) but then 70% of the total built really isn't a huge number. I too have my Great Grandfathers AXE (He's not the one who chopped down the cherry tree, we were still in England and Scotland then) So what if that AXE has had three new heads and 6 new handles.
Take care Syd !
TERRY (Who'se Henry?) Oh, that was a joke? Sorry, we yanks are slow like that sometimes
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