| Let's Offroad - wet style! | |
| Investigating the door seal performance on Solihull vehicles | |
| Tissington Ford, Derbyshire, and | |
| Somerset and Wiltshire, early 2002 |
| Dawn? No, LandRovers. |
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The local... Tissington Ford has long been the focus of 'stupidity' ley lines in Derbyshire. The locals have learned to master their feelings there. |
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... the learner ... .. but a need to drive fast, known as 'The Urge', can strike both a learner and his instructor ... |
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and the lunatic... ... never mind it's effects on those channelling it's energy into horsepower. |
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| The driver is Tom Curtis. His mother owns a Discovery, coincidentally very similar to this one, which she sometimes lets him drive. Not that this is hers; that would be madness. |
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| We were trialling, I was double driving Tom's LR. I will point out I asked his permission before.... |
| ... we plunged into the abyss. |
| "The emergency exits are labelled by dry land, here and here" |
| Note plentiful internal water supply |
| It started and ran fine again afterwards, except for a funny smell! |
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