Greetings from Canada! It's been 35 years since I sold my 88 inch Series 11A but I always enjoy going for a ride in the snow. The Focus was going nowhere with those tires (tyres?) It's all about WINTER tires here.
Greetings! What a beautiful country you live in! We very rarely get sun or snow in England (just rain and lots of it) so understandably very few prepare for it and many have never driven in snow and simply don't know the basics.
Thanks mate, it was foggy and caused all kinds of issues with the camera clarity and drone control so after it tried to eat the tree decided to leave it grounded 🫣😂
Cant beat an old landy, my dad has had 13 landys, he had an 80 inch series 1 and an 88 inch series 1, series 2s, 3s, county 110s, disco 1s, classic rangys. Our last landy was a defender 130 tipper, had it 19 years, as a work truck that regularly carried 2 tonne of woodchip. It had 250k miles on it, and we sold it for a similar price he bpught it 19 years ago. But we sold it battered and rusty. When it snowed we used to go out pulling vans and cars out the snow and ditches. I also remember pulling out a beached and bogged 10 tonne lorry. You cant beat a landy theyre the best
You can’t whack an old Landy, they’re hot in summer, cold in winter, they’re draughty, wet inside, noisy slow smelly and many other things but they are addictive and just look at it it’s beautiful and it will do so many things and never needs to be plugged into a puter or go into limp mode. Modern day “technicians” with they’re rubber gloves, polished nails, Alice bands and lovely clean overalls shit themselves when that pulls up to the heated workshop with painted floors just in case someone asks them to a look at it, the engine oil in my Landy is older than most of these modern “techs” we got an old boy I mean I’m 64 but he’s an older guy and he’s always in dirty overalls, flat cap and boots, he sits in his grubby old workshop by an old oil burner made from a 45 gallon drum surrounded by his old milling machine, lathe and various metalworking tools a proper old garage and when you take your Landy there he fixes it, there is nothing he needs to send to another workshop he fixes everything, makes new parts resurfaces brake discs and flywheels, just everything and the best thing as the customer you speak to him not some 18 year old girl who don’t know the difference between a distributor and a carburettor yet she is tasked with telling the “technicians” how to fix your car because customers are not allowed near the workshop for health and safety reasons. Give me the old way every time I sit by his oil burner with his dog whilst he looks at my Landy. How it used to be and how it should be.
Very well said. The 109 you see in this video was owned by a bloke much the same "Oily Martin" was his name, everybody knew him and everybody trusted him to fix their car and that he did and bloody well too, I grew up sitting around his workshop with my dad and playing with the hundreds of Landrovers he had lay around the yard, honoured to own his landrover, it's not pretty, it leaks like no other and burns oil but it's still running after 60 years and somehow still hits 75mph and pulls cars from ditches. The Mrs isn't a fan of them but I will never own a modern car for as long as I can own & drive an old series. Thanks for the comment mate, I miss the old world.
@ Thankyou for your response, I’m out in rural Cornwall, lots of Landys around here, we are so lucky to have these older fonts of knowledge that just won’t retire but instead their whole world is they’re little workshop and regardless of whether they have a customer today or not they are out in that workshop with the dog just pottering, I’m quite a good experienced mechanic and I go just to help where I can all for free, one thing I do not touch is a gearbox, only last week I had an r380 gearbox which was noisy, I took it up to the old fella Don is his name, he opened it up end just about tipped everything out on his bench, there was bits everywhere, from stock he rebuilt it in the afternoon with new bearings one new selector fork and gaskets, done no moaning no huffing and puffing, just pay me for the parts boy is all he said, we don’t do that we always make sure he’s got money in his pocket cos his wife don’t give him any 😂😂
Beautiful part of the country, I love it down there. Old boys are the best bless em, I think I draw the line at gearboxes too haha. We're quickly running out of these skilled and experienced folk, setting ourselves up to fail dumbing everything down with computers/ plug and play parts electronic cars.
Hi, the reason the wheels of the car were turned towards the wall as opposed to being straight was due to the surface being complete ice and on an angle that meant every time the car moved it would slide sideways into an embankment with large rocks around it's perimeter,, if we didn't guide the car away it would have had the alloys, sill and doors damaged. The only thing we could have done differently was lift it out with a crane but I forgot to bring it this time 😂
Greetings from Canada! It's been 35 years since I sold my 88 inch Series 11A but I always enjoy going for a ride in the snow. The Focus was going nowhere with those tires (tyres?) It's all about WINTER tires here.
Greetings!
What a beautiful country you live in! We very rarely get sun or snow in England (just rain and lots of it) so understandably very few prepare for it and many have never driven in snow and simply don't know the basics.
Very very hard conditions for the ice and road slope. My congratulation!
It's was slightly challenging, but we got there in the end.
Thanks.
Epic drone footage
Thanks mate, it was foggy and caused all kinds of issues with the camera clarity and drone control so after it tried to eat the tree decided to leave it grounded 🫣😂
Why the focus decided to drive there in the snow I'll never know. Some people have no idea how tricky snow is haha. Great video mate.
It's one of those things, people often think their car is more capable than the electronics that control it want it to be.
Thanks for the comment 🤙
Cant beat an old landy, my dad has had 13 landys, he had an 80 inch series 1 and an 88 inch series 1, series 2s, 3s, county 110s, disco 1s, classic rangys. Our last landy was a defender 130 tipper, had it 19 years, as a work truck that regularly carried 2 tonne of woodchip. It had 250k miles on it, and we sold it for a similar price he bpught it 19 years ago. But we sold it battered and rusty. When it snowed we used to go out pulling vans and cars out the snow and ditches. I also remember pulling out a beached and bogged 10 tonne lorry. You cant beat a landy theyre the best
You can’t whack an old Landy, they’re hot in summer, cold in winter, they’re draughty, wet inside, noisy slow smelly and many other things but they are addictive and just look at it it’s beautiful and it will do so many things and never needs to be plugged into a puter or go into limp mode. Modern day “technicians” with they’re rubber gloves, polished nails, Alice bands and lovely clean overalls shit themselves when that pulls up to the heated workshop with painted floors just in case someone asks them to a look at it, the engine oil in my Landy is older than most of these modern “techs” we got an old boy I mean I’m 64 but he’s an older guy and he’s always in dirty overalls, flat cap and boots, he sits in his grubby old workshop by an old oil burner made from a 45 gallon drum surrounded by his old milling machine, lathe and various metalworking tools a proper old garage and when you take your Landy there he fixes it, there is nothing he needs to send to another workshop he fixes everything, makes new parts resurfaces brake discs and flywheels, just everything and the best thing as the customer you speak to him not some 18 year old girl who don’t know the difference between a distributor and a carburettor yet she is tasked with telling the “technicians” how to fix your car because customers are not allowed near the workshop for health and safety reasons. Give me the old way every time I sit by his oil burner with his dog whilst he looks at my Landy. How it used to be and how it should be.
Very well said. The 109 you see in this video was owned by a bloke much the same "Oily Martin" was his name, everybody knew him and everybody trusted him to fix their car and that he did and bloody well too, I grew up sitting around his workshop with my dad and playing with the hundreds of Landrovers he had lay around the yard, honoured to own his landrover, it's not pretty, it leaks like no other and burns oil but it's still running after 60 years and somehow still hits 75mph and pulls cars from ditches.
The Mrs isn't a fan of them but I will never own a modern car for as long as I can own & drive an old series.
Thanks for the comment mate, I miss the old world.
@ Thankyou for your response, I’m out in rural Cornwall, lots of Landys around here, we are so lucky to have these older fonts of knowledge that just won’t retire but instead their whole world is they’re little workshop and regardless of whether they have a customer today or not they are out in that workshop with the dog just pottering, I’m quite a good experienced mechanic and I go just to help where I can all for free, one thing I do not touch is a gearbox, only last week I had an r380 gearbox which was noisy, I took it up to the old fella Don is his name, he opened it up end just about tipped everything out on his bench, there was bits everywhere, from stock he rebuilt it in the afternoon with new bearings one new selector fork and gaskets, done no moaning no huffing and puffing, just pay me for the parts boy is all he said, we don’t do that we always make sure he’s got money in his pocket cos his wife don’t give him any 😂😂
Beautiful part of the country, I love it down there.
Old boys are the best bless em, I think I draw the line at gearboxes too haha.
We're quickly running out of these skilled and experienced folk, setting ourselves up to fail dumbing everything down with computers/ plug and play parts electronic cars.
Thats not the right way to do it. You should not use the throttle like that and the wheels in the towed car should be pionting straight forward.
Hi, the reason the wheels of the car were turned towards the wall as opposed to being straight was due to the surface being complete ice and on an angle that meant every time the car moved it would slide sideways into an embankment with large rocks around it's perimeter,, if we didn't guide the car away it would have had the alloys, sill and doors damaged.
The only thing we could have done differently was lift it out with a crane but I forgot to bring it this time 😂