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Lost Laner

A Ghostly Tale for Halloween....

It was terrible cold wet night and having missed the last bus I decided to hitchhike, it was a real dark night and the rain lashed the road. Time passed slowly and no cars went by.

It was raining so hard I could hardly see my hand in front of my face. Suddenly I saw an old Land Rover moving approaching slowly and appearing ghostlike in the rain. It slowly and silently crept toward me and stopped.

Wanting a ride real bad I jumped into the Land Rover and closed the door; only then did I realize that there was nobody behind the wheel, and no sound of an engine to be heard over the rain. Again, the car crept slowly forward and I was terrified, too scared to think of jumping out and running.

Suddenly I realised that the car was approaching a sharp curve and, still too scared to jump out, I started to pray and beg for my life; I was sure the ghostly Landy would go off the road and into the swollen river and that I would surely drown!

But just before the curve a shadowy figure appeared at the misted up driver's window, a hand reached in and turned the steering wheel, guiding the car safely around the bend. Then, just as silently, the hand disappeared through the window and I was alone again!

Paralyzed with fear, I watched the hand reappear every time the Land Rover reached a curve. Finally, scared to near death, I could take no more and jumped out of the Land Rover and ran to town.

Wet and in shock, I went into the nearest pub and with my voice quavering, ordered two shots of whiskey, I then told everybody about my supernatural experience.

A silence enveloped and everybody got goose bumps when they realized I was telling the truth (and that I was not just some drunk).

About half an hour later two men walked into the bar and one says to the other, "Look Andy, there’s that idiot that rode in our car when we were pushing it in the rain."



Whilst this account has been written anonymously it is obviously not written by a Landy owner. If it were they’d be familiar with one of the frequent requirements of ownership.....pushing it home!!

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2012 Challenge.

Plans for a fund raising challenge in 2012 are now starting to be formulated.

The idea is create a trip that will be a challenge to complete in all it's elements whilst raising some money for the charities I am supporting.

So far the idea is to make a journey probably in DVO (the series 3 109") with as high a proportion of greenlanes as possible, camping and/or B&Bing along the way. We know from this years trials that to maintain an average speed of 14 to 15mph on this type of journey is quite a challenge, especially in a vehicle with a top speed of 52mph at best. I been thinking about a route to Cumbria then following the Coast to Coast route featured in LRO then back to Cambridgeshire or perhaps a pilgrimage through Wales to Red Wharf Bay where the first concept drawings of the Land Rover were made in the sand.

What ever the route and it's challanges I will need the involvement of others to help it happen. I've already got a volunteer to navigate but ideally need accompanying vehicle(s) for obvious safety reasons. I would appreciate any help with vehicle preparation, trip provisions and fund raising.

If you are interested in getting involved, helping, joining the trip (all or part of the way), raising funds/sponsorship or just asking questions and 'spreading the word' then please let me know by clicking here or for donations to the charities please use the 'Just Giving' buttons you'll find towards the bottom of most of the pages of this website (remember to include a note to say what event your supporting when making a donation).

All those involved will get mentioned on the 'Role of Honour' on this website and should get their names onto the vehicle for the event.

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Latest Maintenance Trials for YJI

Read all about the MOT on a shoe string. YJI goes through with less than £200.00 spent including the test fee. Full details on the October page of the Second Land Rover.

The Most Recent Trip

Aaron (my son) and I embarked on our first combined greenlaning & camping trip. We left home Tuesday 2nd August 2011 heading off on a three day, two night, 300ish mile round trip through East Anglia back to home.

The purpose of this trip was to test out my theories on how much ground we could cover per day when we use B.O.A.T.s and U.C.R.s in preferance to minor roads, in preference to B roads, in preference to A roads, in preference to dual carriageways, in preference to motorways.

I didn't think a theoretical average of 100 miles per day would be too taxing but theory and practice rarely coincide!

See how we got by looking at the 
3 day trip 2nd-4th Aug. 2011 page (Trips > 3 day trip 2nd-4th Aug 2011)

The Land Rovers

The current Lost Laner 'fleet' consists of 2 Land Rovers, a 1999 Discovery 2 and a 1979 Series 3 109" although there have previously been a 1994 V8 Discovery 1 and another 1979 Series 3 109" that never got back on the road!

The 1979 109" (DVO) is generally the one that gets to go on most of the greenlaning trips as the Discovery (YJI) is more of a family car!

What's Lost Laner?

This website is all about Land Rovers, their owner and his use of them both for leisure and trying to raise some money for charity at the same time. Please take the time to look at the pages of this site, enjoy the content, join in and hopefully make a purchase or donation. Any of the latter three will benefit good causes which would be great.

Arthritis Research





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