First day with my new toy!
I saw my One Ten on Ebay and after many emails with the seller I drove down to Dover and met up with a friend from a forum I frequent to check it over. He is a mechanic and a land Rover owner so was ideally placed to advise me as I knew nothing about them then, and only marginally more now.
After checking it over from top to bottom, paying particular attention to the chassis and bulkhead he gave it a clean bill of health and I became one very happy Land Rover owner.
Driving it home was an experience as I wasn’t used to the handling characteristics of these things and by the time I got home I was worn out and wondering if I had made the right decision. It’s a big jump from a Renault Clio to a One Ten and I found the vague steering difficult. The next morning I woke up feeling as though I had flu my arms and back were so sore. Maybe I am just weak and it had nothing to do with the landy 
Luckily this was only temporary and after a few days I was used to the big old lump and the inane grin has still not left my face almost a year later.
The first thing I did was spend 4 hours washing, T cutting and then waxing her from top to bottom. I wanted to see how it looked when washed and polished as it would probaly never look shiny again, and believe it or not, where there is paint it came up a treat!
But of course this is no way to treat a vehicle of this heritage so the very next day I jumped in and found some very deep mud on the farm and proceeded to get very stuck.
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