The landy Curse !

If you find yourself with following symptoms:
1. You are so alert that whenever there's a Landy near you, you know it.
2. You can sense the landy 5 cars away behind you at the traffic light.
3. You can smell a Landy from 5km away.
4. You get neck pain not from driving, but from checking out passing Landies.
5. You spend more time surfing for Landy photos online than surfing porns

You've kena  Class C (minor) Landy Poisoning.
The cure:
1. Eat more vegetables
2. Get a Sedan car
3. Get a Landy (best cure)


If you find the symptoms developed futher:
1. You take photos of all Landies you came across in the street.
2. You skip lunch to go to LR showroom for a test drive / just see see look look
3. You bought your first issue of LRO monthly magazine.
4. Your friends kept MMS you photos of their landy.
5. You're already planning how to pimp up a landy and have checked out accessories on ebay
    - like you already have one.

You've kena Class B (Average) Landy Poisoning.
The cure:
1. Tell your wife/gf your intention and hope their nagging can stop it all..
2. Make new friends who'll give you 1001 reasons to choose a Toyota over a Landy.
    (...or 1002 reasons to give up owning a landy)
3. Get a Landy (proven cure)

If you find the symptoms gotten worst:
1. You keep having LR-related dreams (sometimes Inception style, sometimes wet)
2. You found out that Queen Elizabeth of England is also driving one
3. You recognise most of the landy on the road, and know where the owner lives!
4. You are starting to smell like motor oil.
5. Every movie you chose to watch has at least a Defender in it.

You've kena Class A (very serious) Landy Poisoning.
The cure:
1. Tell your wife you are getting a landy, or divorce it is!
2. Get a fucking Landy!
3. You don't want to be cured, do you?

Luther's Emma Thompson

A few months ago my Fellow fishing/hunting comrade and good friend Luther who's also kena the Landy poison so deep that he finally decided to get himself a brand new Defender 110 crew cab.


After months of waiting, Emma Thmpson ( being brand new like a virgin, sexy and pok pok choi like the brit actress compared to my Sean Connery) finally touched down and waiting to be picked up by her owner at LR's showroom in Tawau next week...

Very sexy colour oh !

Envy betul...!! Also, he's one of the few lucky bastards badasses to recieve the first batch 2.2 EU5 engined Defy in the country.

Luther's even ordered few goodies months before the car's arrival. With all his MMS each time he recieved the accesories, making people gatal betul!

According to him, he'll be picking it up on the 1st of June, driving it stright to Leklek's workshop garage to fit the wheel carrie and the clear lens he bought. Too bad the A-frame not yet arrive la...

Folloe us to see the process of his pimp-ups soon!

Le Hunting Trip

Was in the jungle of ulu ulu off Kinabatagaan in Tawau over the weekend. Finally get to see Ali chai's Yellow one after hearing about it from the tawau gang so many times. Get to ride in it during the whole trip also. Very good condition for the age, very Camel Trophy feel bah. The 19J enjin is good enough for the job, but of course cannot compare with other younger cars lah.. maybe a 300tdi replacement soon?

Yes I know you are humming the Camel Trophy theme song watching this

Comparing the old trusty 19j to the newer trunks is like, comparing donkey to camels.. it may not have high tech changi AI engine and as powerful as Cikgu's Dmax, the old good donkey can still get you there... with some extra load. And that is good enough lah. After all it is a Land Rover.

Tuan Liew's Hi-lux and Cikgu's Dmax in action:

Of course the spotlight was on Leklek's Rojak Rover. Really can't find another name for his Series 109 hybrid. What's left of a lady in it, is the chasis and the body panels. It's been rebuilt into a Toyota-powered monster running on toyota axles. 2 winches. Typical Sabahan 4WD engineering, it's so Macho that it makes its whole crew looks like a the rebels / smugglers that Lara Croft also wanna run away from, or the bad guys in a lost-in-the-jungle action film. One word. Badass!

it's so badass that it turns a highschool teacher into a jungle thug

it's so badass that it turns divers like Jonathan as pale as snow white

Where we sleep

Venision for meals

and fresh kelah straight from the river!

Thanks guys for the great weekend breakaway! Looking foward to the next trip!

Nose job done

The Dark Knight Rises is comming out, and Tom Hardy's Bane is given a nice cool mask, I think it's time to give my landy a nose job!

So it was another weekend project! After hours of spray painting, drilling, unsrewing, screwing-on..

The Car is going to be repainted in gray soon in near future eventually, so I decided that i might as well try out some colour matching. Matelic black turns out cool. What i'm planning to do next is to put on the Land Rover bonnet decal in black, then checker plates on top lah if can.

Tinted the wind screen as the previous white-coloured thingy looks cacat so it had to go. Also moved the aluminium apek-style number plate to the middle...

 

Macam? looks younger now kan?

New lens

Bling Bling!

Had the old yellowed VW style head light replaced... hu hu hu hu hu...

Before - Oldie VW style headlight ...

After - Crystal Diamond headlight ! 

Bought a new grille mask, can't wait til next weekend for the project !

The restoration begins!

After a little work out over the weekend, with a few bottles of aerosol paint, my landy is starting to have it old glory back lah..

Ngai decided to respray the wheel arches flat black as the old glossy black paint is starting to chip off making the truck looks like baru come out from some kebun off talipok. Yeah the inanam apek
land rover look! And that looks very york-sorn kan!

That's when the flat blck paint comes in. The outcome? Unexpectedly nice! So nice that i decided to spray the grill, lamp surrounds and the 4 nipples on my bonnet ( the spare wheel carrier ) in flat black as well la. If it cannot turn the apek into Orlando Bloom, at least make it Sean Connery bah.

The initial plan is to repaint the whole car in matelic gray, but not until i kaw dim restoring the car, body panels, macam macam so it looks like it'll still be a long way to go before my 110 gets its new colour.

ok lah the truth is, to pay for the re-painting job I'll need to sell my left kidney first and it takes some times mah. After all i already sold my left ball for the car.

So I'm keeping the eye-catchy Petronas green for now and chap chap whatever i can do to make it look brand new  not so old lah.

Hmm starting to regain its glory liao!

Flat black (not Jack Black ah) can really make your old body parts look new!

  

Stay tuned bitches!

Buy or not leh ?

After 3 years of dreaming, planning, drooling over magazines, Internet images surfing, shen-kar-lin-ing at car dealers, and few fail attempts of meet-up for car viewing, I finally came across that one 110 that looked worth buying.

I can still remember the first time i saw it, macam falling in love for the first time bah, checking it out over and over again like a green-head boy first see a pussy porn magazine erm what ever it is to turn you on.

Chasis checked - as stong as new. No sign of lubang like the 88" i was about to buy earlier.
Engine checked - although old, but it has been recently overhauled by the seller who repair landy for a living and know what they are doing - in fact they run a reputed landy workshop. Engine sounds clean and more than what i was expecting. At least there's no reason to change the engine in the near future.
Interior checked - Can't expect anything good from a 20 year old workhorse, but the interior was not as bad although a lot of works is needed to put in to make it look alive again. Well I can live with it.

Buy or not leh ?? buy or not ??

So i went home, took a shower, trying to cool down the hard on semangat and try to be reasonable.. worth it or not ? Or it is just another landy that i come across and walk away?

Buy or not leeeeeeh ?! buy or not ??! Cannot decide lah.

It's until the night when i was watching late night TV.. Nat Geo Channel + supper. "Perilous Journeys : The Roof Of Africa" was on ! Bugger driving a 110 over the Sani Pass trying to racun me, you evil bastard!
And then i switched to HBO, The Queen was playing. Bloody hell even QE drives a 110 to cross the river on her hunting trip to racun me! You evil bitch !
(which i found out later it's true that even at the age of 80+, the Queen is still driving her 110 around their royal estate. watch the real documentry here. fui yoh my kind of lady! )

It's a sign! Buka bank account online.. check my piggy bank.. dig out the deepest of my pocket..
kira kira kira. all the savings + selling my third testicle.. Buy lah !!! It's an offer that ngai... cannot refuse!

So in the next few weeks,  payment made, document done, and i finally drove home my first 110. What's next? The restoring the may take years - see if i can tahan that long lah!