What do you do with your Rover?

[Bostonian1976]

Mine is a daily driver, but that's a misnomer insofar as she rarely runs every day. I'm trying to sell my back-up, an '07 FJ Cruiser, just to make life more difficult...woohoo!

but....FJ's are great for when your Rover needs a little....help...




what do I do with my Rover? Mine likes to go hiking...

[friar mike]

Mine is a daily driver, but that's a misnomer insofar as she rarely runs every day. I'm trying to sell my back-up, an '07 FJ Cruiser, just to make life more difficult...woohoo!

Me too Iam selling my chevy and keeping the 109 will see how it works out oh by the way I call mine The antichrist .

[JimCT]

Daily driver and camper....

I comute to work and bring the dog along every day....and it is our home away from home. Use it to rescue friends from their 4wd misadventures too.

[I Leak Oil]

I use mine to drain my bank account, consume any spare time I might have and keep the driveway well lubricated!
Jason T.

[jrod770]

Mine currently sits idle awaiting parts from the painter.

[BackInA88]

Rock target

I let the punks in the neighborhood use mine for rock throwing target pratice!

[yorker]

I comute to work and bring the dog along every day....and it is our home away from home. Use it to rescue friends from their 4wd misadventures too.

Jim- do you have any more pics? where did you get that tent?

[4flattires]

Backina88.....boy I feel your pain..

That very same thing happened to me with my 88 and my 39 Ford. Fortunately, I nabbed the kids with rocks in hand, called the cops, had the parents (nearby) hustled to the house by the cops and collected in cash (after providing an estimate). My heart goes out to you man.

Jeff

[friar mike]

I let the punks in the neighborhood use mine for rock throwing target pratice!

samething happened to my 12 IH scouts in the back yard.

[Daurie]

Mines my daily driver for the most part. It hauls firewood ocassionally, takes my daughter to school and hopefully this summer it will take me through parts of Utah if I can get off enough time to make it over there.

[Tim Smith]

Some lovely pictures here folks. Thanks.

Here is one of my lightweight moving cement:



Moving the boat:



And the minor frame damage (after the new RN tow frame set up) which was the result from moving a 12,000# tavel trailer:



Good story in that one.

Some other pictures here: http://picasaweb.google.com/smithco1/BumbaFlysAgain

Cheers,
Tim

[TeriAnn]

1978 through 1992, The Green Rover worked as a ranch vehicle AND a commute vehicle.

As a ranch vehicle, her winch spent more time helping to string fence and occasionally rescuing my Ford 641 tractor than rescuing stuck 4X4s. Every weekend she went to the feed store and was loaded with 7 bales of hay plus a few large bags of grains. Once a month she was backed up to stalls and loaded to the roof line in fresh manure/bedding a couple times then hosed out afterwards. She also took livestock to the vet, out for breeding, to the fair & as needed.

Returning from the fair around 1986

In addition to the farm work she drove me to and from work. About 45 miles each way over a mountain range. 5 days a week every week for almost 2 decades until I got the Triumph TR3A rebuilt and drivable.

From sometime in late 1992 through 1996 The Green Rover was a bad weather commute car, and was used increasingly for camping. A life of leasure for my Land Rover. Then in the fall of 1996 I came home from Eastern oregon with a damaged Dormobile kit salvaged from a wrecked Land Rover Dormobile.

It took me a year of work to rebuild The Green Rover into a long range expedition Dormobile.

1997 and into 2008 she has been mostly used for traveling here and there:

1997



2002



1998

New Years, 2007-2008

30 years of how I used my Land Rover

[Tim Smith]

Thats a nice post TA! Of course I know where to go if I want to find out more about your trucks adventures.

I took a quick re-read of my previous post and noticed a botch. The Rovers North tow hitch was mounted after the damage from pulling that huge trailer. So the damage likely won't occur next time I've got to move it as this tow hitch is SO MUCH BETTER than what I had before.

Cheers,
Tim

[Terrys]

I don't use mine. It uses me.

[01001010]

Mines my daily driver for the most part. It hauls firewood ocassionally, takes my daughter to school and hopefully this summer it will take me through parts of Utah if I can get off enough time to make it over there.

Daurie,

Did you purchase this truck from a gentleman in Florida named Clive? If so, you've got yourself one HEK of a truck!!! Wheeled alongside it and was the truck that made me set my search for a Defender aside and purchase my Series.