Tony and Greg, You have to have the "Courage of your own conviction" or people will always slap you around, with what ever you do in life.

My personal experience was to do an army apprenticeship on early Landrovers, and they were not easy to work on (thinking clutch jobs)
On Landrovers, people seem to either love them or hate them. I tell people that I don't like them, but one of the greatest off road excursions I have ever done was in an early 88" "F" head Landy. In the hands of a skilled driver, they are hard to beat. (I wasn't driving. That was a chap called Chris Parkinson

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I just chose not to get into owning one. Most people are full of .... bias.
Decide what you want, and ignore the.....bias