Spook spec Rangie update, thirst of a viking

[scooters]

Horror - at the weekend I suddenly realised that Ssangyong 1 and IVECO were both out of MOT this week and unlikely to sail through dew to hard use over the winter. This happens at the same time we are about to start a 3 week job in Prestwick - new tow vehicle urgently needed so a quick shuftey on the Bay to see what is local and tough enough to do the job and hey presto -

 

this

 

 

Q plate ex MOD Vogue SE, has been a green laning judging by the scrape and dent fest. V8 POWAH with 4 x under body LPG tanks - I put 100lts in today and it is only 1/2 full

Auto box, 2" lift, Schnorkle, Roofrack and even roof beacon lights so we don;t have to fit one.

 

Trundles along nicely, enough grunt to pull up a tree and the professional towbar is very useful, pin as well as bar.

 

Also -as it is ex MOD it is GR8 4 TRANSPORT IN 1980s STYL GIBWALTER ASSASSINAYSCHUNS OF IRA MEN

 

 

 

[scooters]

opps -

 

due due due

 

blinking flip!

where's the edit button gone?

[brickwall]

To get the edit button you need to go into setting and pretend to be an American. It will show up then. That's how things go around here!

 

Languages: American English.

[scooters]

Gee Thanks!

I'm off to drink a 400oz soda and eat a 6000 calorie pizza

 

that should do the trick!

[CreepingJesus]

60-odd fl ozs of Bru not enough? Couple of pies and a Mars bar, and that's enough food groups covered for one day...

 

Looks like it would just go through stuff, tho'. How much did it skin you, if you don't mind me asking?

[Guest]

Fack me, that is WINNAH. Loving the uber stealth black ops spook mode.

[scooters]

Twas 800 Scots Groats

Or

A monkey and six ponies

 

I didnt pay for it though, our business did. This is great "well dear its not like its our money and we do need a 20 year old gas guzzling rangie for work you know, much more practical than that 1998 transit with tow bar and fsh and no rust for 900 quid, honest)

[scooters]

@breadvan

 

Yeah, the vehicle is probably on some 1990s rebublican death list over in Belfast, not the car for a holiday to Port Rush then!

There are some very suspicious screw holes in the boot and glovebox suggesting they werenae carrying a pair of labradors and a tin of travel sweets in this! sold by the mod ith no history and a q plate already fitted. Hmmmmm.....

[Guest]

"But, Sir, these map refs are SOUTH of the border" "Sorry, Corporal, can't hear you, tappets too noisy".

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[ChinaTom]

Thinking about the size of your petrol bills makes me shudder. And I own a V12!

 

If you fill up at Tescos I bet you can do an entire months shopping with the clubcard vouchers

[Guest]

Mine does 18 mpg. Shit, but, feck it, the shed only cost a monkey. It's on motorbike towage duty tomorrow.

[Lord Sterling]

Nice buy! One of these, preferably an Essex Boys spec Vogue SE is on my list of absolutely must buy one day.

[beko1987]

If I could ever blag the running costs of a car away on business expense this would be the vehicle I'd do it to! Top expensing!!

[triumph1300]

ONE LIFE LIVE IT

[scooters]

Well,

Week 1 report....

Journeys

Livingston- kirkcaldy

Kirkcaldy-broxburn towing shitespec 1989 Elddis caravan

Broxburn- edinburgh

Edinburgh- rosyth

rosyth-prestwick towing shitespec

Total miles 216

Lpg used: 100lts

Petrol used 25 lts

 

 

2nd fill

up,

Calor in ayr: 130lts lpg (tank holds 200)

5 gallons petrol,

 

So apart from having the thirst of Georgie Best and Olly Reed combined what is ti report:

 

Towing.....wot trailer

 

Handling: dutch barge, 2 inch lift makes motorways interesting as well

 

Shite credentials?

Superb, the lighting bar which probably adds another gallon a mile is not even plumbed in, twill be swopped for a smaller one (we do actually use them)

the boot catch operates by faith, involving sacrificing some of your blood and incating the following:"fucking, cunting,bastard,fucking open ya cunt, oohyabastard that hurt"

the power sreering pump started merrily pissing vast amounts of dextron 2 all over the coiffed grass at the caravan site we are staying at. A bottle of wynns potion and a top up seems to have stopped this

The rear diff moans over 40, got a tube of molybindum which ill squirt in later

 

One thing about a 2 inch lift is that you dont need to raise the car to get under it,

 

So far im quite impressed at the sheer toughness of it especially amusing when you pull up alongside some fat slug inside hus 'styled' gun metal rangie sport with the low profile wheels and extra plasticy shiney bits, they can never meet you eye, ming you they are probably terrified that the 2 tonnes of aluminium and rust dont lurch into their 700 quid a month loan as we pull away

 

They cant even accuse you if being a peasant as you need a six figure income to fuel the bastard even with lpg

 

God knows what the fuel bill would be like with petrol alone

 

Its growing on me though,

Pics to follow

[skattrd]

Holy poop, thats single figures mpg. I think something maybe amiss ...

[garbaldy]

Yes sounds like somethings not right as I make that about 8mpg. must be desperate for a service or something wrong as even that old cherokee I had on gas did double that

[MrBen]

So far im quite impressed at the sheer toughness of it especially amusing when you pull up alongside some fat slug inside hus 'styled' gun metal rangie sport with the low profile wheels and extra plasticy shiney bits, they can never meet you eye, ming you they are probably terrified that the 2 tonnes of aluminium and rust dont lurch into their 700 quid a month loan as we pull away

 

I've been driving a mate's old RR this weekend - looks very similar to yours, but even more battered - and my favourite moment was coming round a corner to find somebody in one of the brand new supersized RR's coming the other way, trying to bully their way along the road over the centre line - they soon moved over when they saw me coming!

 

2 inch lift on this one too - high speed lane changes and sweeping bends are particularly amusing!!

[cort16]

I guess it's efi if it's running lpg? That does sound like a lot of juice even for one of these. It's not armour plated is it?

[Richard]

8mpg sounds about right to me, running on gas does knock a bit off the performance and economy, as does towing.

 

 

Bear in mind you can't brim the tank like you can with petrol or diesel. You get as much as the pump wants to give you, which depends on a number of factors. It all averages out in the end but you don't get a realistic figure from a single fill.

[Lacquer Peel]

It's no 74MPG.

[Guest]

Loving it! Mine has an OK tailgate, but you have to say fuckingopenyoucuntybollocksfuckingbumfuckcuntyfuckarsetwatfannnycuntnobbing fucking thing to get the front passenger door to open. 18 mpg, I reckon, but less when laden down with half of the chalk mud of the Chilterns, as presently. I gurn like a nutter at every driver of a posh modern Rangey that I see, but they just look at me like something unpleasant on their shoe. I don't care, two tons of rust and terror can still go almost as quick as they can.

[scooters]

8mpg sounds about right to me, running on gas does knock a bit off the performance and economy, as does towing.

 

 

Bear in mind you can't brim the tank like you can with petrol or diesel. You get as much as the pump wants to give you, which depends on a number of factors. It all averages out in the end but you don't get a realistic figure from a single fill.

 

Yup,

Turns out my foreman, who was driving it from broxburn to prestwick had it in 3rd the whole way by mistake.

Splains the gas consumption,

Just battled through edinburgh traffic, very amusing how drivers keep clear!

[Pete-M]

I took this little outfit to Greece about ten years ago.

 

 

The trailer, loaded, came in at something extremely daft like 3 tons. Liverpool > Zakynthos, 1600 miles, 750 litres. 9.75 mpg.

 

How I wish it'd had LPG....

[scooters]

I took this little outfit to Greece about ten years ago.

 

 

The trailer, loaded, came in at something extremely daft like 3 tons. Liverpool > Zakynthos, 1600 miles, 750 litres. 9.75 mpg.

 

How I wish it'd had LPG....

 

[cort16]

Ouch!

[AnthonyG]

I bet that could tell a few stories....

[garbaldy]

I took this little outfit to Greece about ten years ago.

The trailer, loaded, came in at something extremely daft like 3 tons. Liverpool > Zakynthos, 1600 miles, 750 litres. 9.75 mpg.

 

How I wish it'd had LPG....

 

 

10 years ago, wouldnt have been that bad would it, try doing it now with the price of flowgo

[Pete-M]

It was just short of 80p/litre....