Previously in 'The Canuck Attends SCARR '07', we left Edward and Turner Cook at Twister, the infamous frame wrenching obstacle, with young Turner attempting to conquer the trail in his '95 Classic Range Rover.
After a few harrowing minutes that thankfully his mother did not witness, Turner backed away and admitted defeat. With little coaxing on our part, Edward hopped into his Defender 110 to see if experience and rear lockers could complete what his young son could not.
He walked up it as expected.
Edward's 110 is a pretty sweet rig. A NAS (North American Spec) Defender 110, the rig is in perfect condition inside and out. Edward even pulled the stock manual transmission and installed a more efficient automatic to make this one formidable Land Rover.
Just to impress us further, JB hopped into his completely stock 2002 P38 and again, the formidable obstacle was conquered (boy, I should write commercials or something else just as tacky!).One of the more memorable quotes of the weekend was hollered right about this time when Edward bellowed at his son something along the lines of "Go get that damn truck and finish this trail!".
Turner followed the lines already set out by his father and completed Twister - thank gawd or those of us with RRC would have to had to hide our faces for the rest of the weekend!
A word about JB and his stock P38: the previous month, his wife with a Rover full of passengers, rolled his Discovery II. From what I gathered, his insurance company paid out the cost of the rig and a while later, his local dealer called him up to tell him about an '02 Range Rover that had been traded in. Great time to have friends in high - or at least Rover - places. With SCARR so soon after purchase, he had no time to do anything on the new Rangie nor had he taken it off road before attending the event.
In true Land Rover fashion, the Rangie took to the trails and made her new owner proud while impressing the heck out of everyone else at the event! I would love to have a minute with the previous owner as the Rangie is clean enough that there was no way it was ever taken off road and it would be way too much fun to show just how capable of a vehicle their old rig was even if they were not. What a waste to only do highway miles in any Land Rover and never experience what the designers of the original Rangie had in mind way back in 1973 when the first prototype left Solihull and the world was introduced to the very first Sport Utility Vehicle.
Part Three coming soon to a blog near you!
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That's better. I thought you were going to leave out Ed's quote. That still cracks me up! What a great day, and as you pointed out my first real obstacle in the P38. After that I knew it was going to be a great weekend. -JB
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