Billing Land Rover Show

20/07/2007 by SimonG.

Well I’ve just got back from Billing. What a wash out! Last year it was the thunder storm and the tornando, this year it was the floods. Everywhere was just oozing wet with much of the centre of the stalls area under an inch or so of water. The forecast had predicted rain but perhaps not just how heavy it was going to be. I stayed home in the morning watching the sky get darker and then the heavens opened and stayed open! By about 2pm it seemed that it was now or never and so we set off and were there before 3pm.

We met a few fellow Vikings looking just as wet as we were. However, some of them were camping so goodness knows what that was like. The tents we saw were already sitting on an inch of water and the campers looking thoroughly soaked. The caravaners certainly had the best deal as at least they could be warm and dry inside their ‘vans.

Did i buy anything, well yes I did. I did a good deal on a Southdown tank guard before the show by buying 3 of them for myself and 2 other Vikings. I met the guy from Southdown outside the show on Thursday night as he had travelled up from Devon to come to the show and got the guards from him. I also bought a lift kit for the Disco. I had been thinking about this for a long time so now I’ve taken the plunge. I got a few other bits that I had been wanting especially some different rear lights so I can finally sort out the rear bumper. Land Rover made several variations of rear light clusters and in my mind did a retrograde step when they put the indicators in the bumper on the 300TDi.

I had been looking forward to the show for a long time so I was a bit disappointed that it was so much of a wash out and sorry for all of the stalls who had paid quite a bit to be there by all accounts.

Wednesday - Well the Tank Guard is on and I’ve changed the light clusters over.

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