As you may know i used to drive Landrover series 2 and 3 when i was about 12 years old, the series 2 was SWB and had the left wing missing with the exhaust running up the windscreen, the doors did not fit properly and had a lot of leaks. Somehow it was the most reliable Landrover we had on the estate and we had 3 all together, the other 2 were series 3 LWB and one of them i converted to a 2.5 Rover V8 because we had expanded the estate and had a huge hill and potential, extreme off road tracks which was alot of fun with the motorbikes aswel. The Landorver were used as daily working vehicles like when we were logging, towing and getting over the rough terrain etc. I must say they were fantastic vehicles to work with, broke down in them all the time but 30 minutes of working on them they were back to work. We had quite a collection of cars in the paddock such as triumph dolomite sprints (which were a bag of crap), Austin Seven Ruby, Reliant Ant and 2.0L turbo diesel Montego estates which were used for racing down the long 2 mile private road/driveway to the estate and fields behind. We later got another Landrover which was another Series 3 SWB which somebody had put a V8 in and big off road tyres which was alot of fun on the road and off but we didnt keep it for long. Anyway the moral of the story is the Landrover from the working man years were great machines, these days all i see is small women who cant see over the top of the steering wheel driving their kids to school in a massive Landrover Range Rover taking up all the road and way to scared to even move onto the grass verge which is why i ask the question: Why buy a Landrover that your not going to attempt to go off road with? And why bother making the damn things if their not going to be used to their full potential?? What has this working world come to?