Decided to brave the hell hole which is London yesterday, to look at a potential new company project, travelling south on the M1 i saw something hilarious. Two Land Rovers were travelling in tandem, both were towing car transporter trailers, and each one of them contained another Land Rover. Pulling into Watford Gap Services, i went to the toilet, as i came out these Landies pulled in and parked at the side of my car, i could not resist it.
As the drivers got out i said "i know Land Rovers are unreliable, but is it really necessary to carry a complete new vehicle with you", they were not amused.

Spotted on my drive my cracking F78 blue over silver Fourtrak.
i worked on them years ago at Lookers Billingham when it was Renault/ Daihatsu/ Jeep Dealership. i can remember when we PDI,d them new and i thought they were fantastic. Some years later after the wife deciding she wanted one of them dammed Freelander pieces of $h*** to tow her horse box then after over heating (i warned her, i told her, she didnt listen) we got rid and so the task to find a decent Fourtrak was on. We have been very lucky with our find and are over the moon with its performance in pulling the nag in it box. i gave it a full service and cam belt (96,000 miles) and the only other things it need are the rear prop to diff oil seal which i thought wasnt too bad at £14 and i decided to get a new osf outer sill because it has bubbled up so not going to mess about patching up and just straight replace (£44). im on the hunt for an osr silver bumper if any of you out ther have one. Cheers Danny

Hia
I see loads of Fourtraks down here in sunny Cornwall! And most of them doing what they are built for, getting muddy!!
Saw a nice one today in Pool with F77 on number plate I think, was a clean one though. I used to have a green Fieldman and I always used to see another one driving round identical. Also an identical one in Devon near Tavistock.

Hi there,

saw a brilliant example outside Tesco in Leyland today with an interesting number plate.It started with F 75 ... Couldn't stop unfortunately.Hope the owner gets to see this posting though...

L-reg LWB independent slowed down rather rapidly when he misinterpreted my wave to him at about midday.

.... OH, really was there a speed camera van hiding around the corner ?

i only so interested as i also drive a white fourtrak round edinburgh with a twin axle trailer, our trucks could be brothers

Spotted 19 Fourtracks and sportys today, mind you there were twenty of us in a disused quarry, to which i have access.
We all waved or gesticulated to each other, particularly when we were stuck, tried flashing headlights, but nobody could see them as they were buried in a load of soft sludge and slurry. We all found it good fun, and a definate laugh.

There are so many Sporty's around Shropshire - can I request you all beep and wave please?! Would be so nice!
Sophie.

Spotted a Fourtrak driver near Moons Moat in Redditch, Worcs on Wed 14/03/07 in the afternoon, a middle aged gentleman and Lady were inside, when I saw him I stuck my arm out of the window and gave him the thumbs-up and he flashed back with a smile

Jason "Foxdie" Gaunt

But ... I have a single reservation ... please everyone keep in mind that we dont want to be giving away the 'home positions' of peoples vehicles - lets not make it any easier for someone to steal a fourtrak or sporty to order by letting them know where one parks each night. I would suggest people should only post sightings where they are reasonably sure the vehicle is not outside the persons home.

OK that said: aside from my Fourtrak, the last couple I have spotted: Lunch Time, 15th Dec (friday), Sowton Estate, Exeter, a slate-blue Fourtrak TDX Independent driving onto the estate. Evening of 18th Dec (yesterday), Tesco's carpark on the edge of Exeter, a very dark blue Sporty with a clock-face motif and the word 'midnight' across it, and a not-so dark blue TDX Independent parked two spaces away (I tried to park my Fourtrak nearby, but there were no spaces near )

But I have a somewhat more mad suggestion ... I used to drive a VW beetle (old rear-engined type, not these face-lifted VW Golf's that VW are currently calling Beetles). Nagamochi (the White 1990 F75 resin-top that has recently adopted me) has all the characteristics that used to make my Beetles so special to me ... except one ... the Beetle community: Beetle drivers wave and flash their lights at each other as they pass (or at least most do, I suppose about 80% of them back when I was driving Beetles). There is nothing in the Beetle manual that says you have to do this, there was no secret code of ownership that was passed onto me when I first bought a Beetle, but within days of buying it, a Beetle passed me heading the other way and flashed his lights. I found a safe place to stop and examined the front of my car (expecting to find my number plate hanging off or something). No, all was fine, I thought no more of it. A couple of days later another Beetle flashed me, I ignored it this time and didn't bother stopping. the next one waved, I ventured to wave back at this strange person, and as a result they promptly flashed their lights and tooted their horn and smiled a huge grin at me as we passed. Ahhhh ... I finally realised, they were waving(and/or flashing lights, tooting horns, etc) for no reason other than I was driving a Beetle. So I started waving at passing beetles too, and was somewhat amazed to discover it was very very unusual to find a beetle driver that did _not_ wave back. This is the V-Dub community, and I'm convinced it is perpetuated for no reason other than enough of them do it to make new drivers think it is 'the done thing'.

So I've started doing it again; any time I see a fourtrak or sporty coming the other way, I wave and/or flash my lights, and if I get a wave back, I wave entusiastically and beam them a big grin

Alas, currently my hit rate is that only about 20% wave back (and at least half of them look somewhat puzzled as they do so), and while 1 driver looked at me like I just fed his grandmother to the ravenous bug-blatter-beast-of-thrall, one more than made up for this, a fortrak driver who I encountered on Sowton estate in Exeter waved back most enthusiastically at my greeting, so I waved back again with even more vigor than before and beeped my horn and flashed my lights, and they did the same, and by the time we had passed, we were both bouncing up and down on our seats, grinning like idiots and waving like morons

Yeah, OK, so I'm probably mad (but at least now I know there is at least one other person as mad as me, and they drive a Fourtrak too), but where's the harm eh? I hope that persons day was a little bit happier because of that encounter, I know mine was.

So My suggestion is dont just post here, wave and/or flash your lights at any oncomming fourtrak/sporty (if safe to do so of course) and if they respond in kind, then beam them a huge grin and wave some more. I'm pretty sure if enough start doing it then it will self-perpetuate as it does with Beetles, and in doing so, I'm pretty convinced the world will be an ever-so-slightly happier place

/me waves to everyone on the forum and grins like a moron

Duncan

warning: may contain traces of nut.

Obviously belonged to a lady with good taste in music (Tchaikovsky). Seen in the car park of the 'King's Head'.

58000 miles ..... I'll change your cam belt any time !

I am considering adding a "Spotted" style section in the forums once I can be bothered to design some car stickers so members will recognise eachother. So if anyone has ideas for car stickers to have on Windscreen and also rear windows then feel free to email me or post on here!
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03 Reg Yellow YRV Turbo!

...Who has that immaculate white 'p' plater? And the Metallic green 'R' plate?

Any other Stokey Sportrakkers on here as well?

Dave with a Sporty

Hi I saw a Honda yellow Fourtrak in Canterbury the other day, it was chugging a bit, was that you tunneruk?

regards

davvidoff