Landrovers and Wine!............

RELAX!

You can all take it easy!

Team “Landrovers and Wine” have now entered!

You have your; split charging systems, winches, solar charging panels, refrigeration equipment, coil springs WITH extra lift, spare wheels, air con, bidet, GPS, intercoolers and air compressors, etc.

So much equipment to take, so I think it’s important to only take the essentials, so a full wine rack, and corkscrew!

Joking, me! Of course, I’ve a list the size of Posh Spices trip down Rodeo Drive! Careful, and grateful guidance from the likes of Tom Mc, Jon from Venture Overland, Keith Gott Landrovers, Captain Chaos, and many, many others.
Genuine thanks to you all!

So what do we have, a Camel? No, a snail! A series 111 lwb safari, YES, YES, I know, she’s not the fastest, most comfortable or the best prepared for off-roading. But, she is clean, rust-free and mechanically sound (touch wood). I’m an organizer/planner by nature (stop yawning!), so the trip for me started one month ago, in getting together lists of what to take, increasing my limited knowledge in 4x4 driving/landrover mechanics/first aid and understanding my landy.

Look forward to seeing you all on the Landyrally, from behind probably!

www.landroversandwine.com is an amateur (me) site put together, just for the fun of it. It would have been finished by now, but too much wine-tasting going on! Chateau Tour Bellegrave, don’t you just love claret!

Anyway for those of you still awake, BON VOYAGE!

And roll on September!
Best regards,
Mark

If you need any bottles of white chilling Mark - I'll keep them safe for you... so long as there's room around the bits of cow and saussages (in the fridge of course)!!

Have you started spending money on your wish / requirements list yet?

If I can do Blighty to Timbuktu in an old series, Im sure you'll be OK. From experience though you may need to get an early start if there are hills en-route!!!

As for your spares list, unless youv'e just done them, I'd suggest head gasket, clutch master & slave cylinders, a gallon of EP90 and a squeezy bottle with long delivery tube so you can 'easily' refill the gearbox oil; oh and a spare throttle return spring. Or perhaps you have the one that doesnt leak!! If need be, most of the rest can be sourced or bodged en-route.
I cant recommend Richard at beamends highly enough for spare parts.
http://www.beamends-lrspares.co.uk/

Hi Jon,

Many thanks for your generous help, again.

Yes, done most of my list, divided into 4 sections, but won't starting buying stuff until June onwards. A few things to cover first.

Thanks agin, and best regards, mark

hello and welcome from team monstar

your landy sounds very nice look forward to meeting you

kieran

Thanks Team Monstar,

Likewise, I look forward to meeting you all.

Best regards,
Mark

Welcome welcome welcome - I have always been a fan of fitting two throttle retun springs right from the off! it can make the accelerator a little difficult to press but only ffor those that are not used to agricultural machinery.

I look forward to seeing your website and will be happy to add a link to it from the main landyrally website when it is up and running.

Cheers
Badger

Hi Badger,

Good to hear from you, and I like your canny observations. Thank you also for your comments.

Best regards,
Mark

Hello,

Yes, the website's up. Doesn't look much, it goes show you, knowledge and artistic flair, are 2 things I don't have.

Good start to your website. I'll talk about it more when I have time (just about to shoot out) but one thing has to be said from the off ...

The product name Land Rover is/are TWO seperate words, not one. The only time folk use the term Landrover is when they are trying to get around Land Rover's strict copyright policy i.e Fred's Backstreet Landrover Co.

PLEASE CHANGE IT - IT DRIVES ME MAD

Arh!

Well done Tom, I was wondering when somebody would spot that!

I did say it was an amateur site, . Maybe too much wine tasting, they say you can drink 21 units a weeks, my mate says that's the limit, not a target!

Anyway, corrected. Any further observations, all are welcome.

Best regards,
Mark

I've observed that you haven't sent out any wine for me to taste

you didn't receive it! Can't rely on anyone these days!

Cheers anyway,

For a total amateur, great start to your website Mark. Sent you an email about the Feedback box. Can you post on here the comment I left? I thought it was amusing at the time, though I really can't remember through the femented-grape induced haze!

Then again, it's proabably not worth repeating and could be altogether embarassing

Hello to the Landrovers and Wine. Good Luck for the oldest car on the Rally.
Regards, Kaya

Hello Kaya,

Thank you! But I believe a Series 11a has entered.

Hope to see you in September, we'll be the early starters, to get the hills!

Mark

Ahoy there people.I should think i will be one of the early starters to as the old batalac is powerd by steem well a 2.5 n/a diesel Also welcome abord good to see the site has come alive.Im Fred. Team SELSEY SHARKS.

Hi Fred,

Welcome! Good to see another 2.5D in the event, you'll be in good, albeit hungover, company!

Best of luck, and see you in September.
Best regards, Mark

Hi all and welcome, I notice that its starting to get quite busy on the forum it just makes me realise time is ticking on and i am now looking forward to meeting you all in september.

Regards

Tony :farao:

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TOM: Sounds as if he needs a good Claret to lubricate his bores, something you can help with Mark. What do you recommend?

Talking of Claret, Tesco do their own el cheapo version (at around the £3 mark of what I remember) which ain't half bad. Feedback please CD.


Carpe Diem: £3 claret!

Like everything else, you get what you pay for, or do you? There is Claret for £3, and there is Claret for £??? a bottle.

First of all what is Claret? Tasty! Well, yes, claret is actually English for red Bordeaux wines, from Claret.

You can get the very good claret Château Fontcaille Bellevue 2004, for about £7, or even a Cru Classé claret for about £20. I even managed to pick up a Margaux for under £20, , only 6 you understand, and they are for research purposes, though they won't be at their best until 2010 and onwards. So I'll have to wait, as if!

Of course if you want to splash out; try a Château Léoville-Barton 2000, but at about £100, don't spill any!

Personally, I just drink what i like, but you won't go wrong with a Bordeaux red even for £3, or a white Burgundy (some very nice Chablis out at the moment).

2005, this is a very good year for French wine. And where's our starting point? Yes, France!

I propose some gentle shopping aisle ling in a local store, along with a fun game, how many cases of wine can fit into a 109?

Answers on a full case of wine, to be sent to my home address, thank you!

Thanks for the in-depth essay on Claret, although me being a total numpty when it comes to wine will stick to the £3 section! Still I'm learning (in part due to your excellent tutorials) so may even take a stab at a £4 bottle from time to time.

As for shopping in France, must relate a story I myself witnessed back in the 70’s, way before wine became fashionable in this country –

Always remember a big hypermarket in Calais (think it was Mammoth) that had all the excited Brits lining the bottom of their empty trolleys with wine as soon as they walked in the door. They would then do all their food shopping, filling the trolleys to the brim before heading to the tills. Just before the checkout at the very end of the last aisle was another wine section, only this time it was ¼ the price of the section by the entrance. Why? Well the previous strategically-placed wine display contained good quality wines – Chablis, Vouvray and the like (although it still seemed inexpensive to us) – while the last section contained all the cheap table wines with foil tops which were dirt cheap.

Picture the scene … realising they had been stitched up, Brits galore unloading a mountain of groceries on the floor, off-loading the now ‘expensive’ wine from aisle No.1 to replace it with gallons of gut-rot local plonk from aisle No.28 (which the French often water down as an everyday drink with meals even for breakfast) – then re-fill the trolley again with all the food purchases! Absolute pandemonium!!! So funny to see though, that’s ‘wine ignorance’ if ever I’ve seen it. As for the hypermarket, how many other Brits couldn’t be bothered to go through all that upheaval just to save a few £’s so went ahead and paid anyway; racketing up the store’s profits in the process! Ironically, little did the buyers of the good wines know they were the lucky ones, as scarred for life, the cheapskates have probably never touched another bottle of wine ever again!

It seems “ignorance is not always bliss”.

Hi Tom,

Great story! Brits abroad, don't you love them.............

Recently spent 3yrs on the Costa Del Sol, thankfully not everywhere were there firsh & chips, Prince of Wales/London/Red lion pubs, bingo nights........

Best regards, Mark

Hello all,

Thank you again for your help, and comments, truly grateful.

So she's back, and sounding very sweet, and with a new MOT!

Maybe it was a waterway blockage, or the head gasket not seating properly, who knows, but now drives very, very nice, and stays on the "N" even in heavy traffic.

So here's the mains things that have been renewed/changed;

Cylinder head (complete i.e. valves, stems, rods, hot spots etc)
Head/water pump/thermostat etc gaskets
Fan and shroud
Radiator
Temp sender
Glow plugs
Thermostat
Rad hoses
Fan belt

and various bit and pieces.

So driving her around gently for a couple hundred miles, and enjoying it.

All the best, Mark

Sweet.

Sounds like she'll be running on tune for a good while again Mark. Just feel sorry for the the hole its left in your wallet!

Hi there, I am so pleased that there are other LR models taking part beside Discoverys. More Series the better.
Must admit though I lurve my 200tdi Disco

Yeah, ilove my Disco, but i do miss the series...