It's a tiny planet

[Ian Rawlings]

Blimey, just doing some staring out of the window and wondered how
many times I'd have driven round the earth in my landy if I'd gone in
a straight line for it's 177,000 miles, 7 times apparently! About
25,000 miles around the planet, I reckon I do that slightly less than
once a year..

The moon, at its furthest point, is about 253,000 miles, has anyone's
truck made it yet? Any made it there and back?

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[Nige]

Ian Rawlings wrote:
> Blimey, just doing some staring out of the window and wondered how
> many times I'd have driven round the earth in my landy if I'd gone in
> a straight line for it's 177,000 miles, 7 times apparently! About
> 25,000 miles around the planet, I reckon I do that slightly less than
> once a year..
>
> The moon, at its furthest point, is about 253,000 miles, has anyone's
> truck made it yet? Any made it there and back?

I had a 110 that ended up with 275k on it when i sold it :)

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[SteveG]

Ian Rawlings wrote:
> Blimey, just doing some staring out of the window and wondered how
> many times I'd have driven round the earth in my landy if I'd gone in
> a straight line for it's 177,000 miles, 7 times apparently! About
> 25,000 miles around the planet, I reckon I do that slightly less than
> once a year..
>
> The moon, at its furthest point, is about 253,000 miles, has anyone's
> truck made it yet? Any made it there and back?
>

I had a series 2a that we (conservatively) calculated had done 462,000
miles!!!

Of course, there wasn't much of the original vehicle left by that time :-)

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[Ian Rawlings]

On 2009-10-30, SteveG <_@_._> wrote:

> Ian Rawlings wrote:
>> The moon, at its furthest point, is about 253,000 miles, has anyone's
>> truck made it yet? Any made it there and back?
>
> I had a series 2a that we (conservatively) calculated had done 462,000
> miles!!!
>
> Of course, there wasn't much of the original vehicle left by that time :-)

Crikey, so it's a Lunar (Land)Rover, and well on its way home, hope
you can get all the dust out ;-)

[EMB]

SteveG wrote:
> Ian Rawlings wrote:
>> Blimey, just doing some staring out of the window and wondered how
>> many times I'd have driven round the earth in my landy if I'd gone in
>> a straight line for it's 177,000 miles, 7 times apparently! About
>> 25,000 miles around the planet, I reckon I do that slightly less than
>> once a year..
>>
>> The moon, at its furthest point, is about 253,000 miles, has anyone's
>> truck made it yet? Any made it there and back?
>>
>
> I had a series 2a that we (conservatively) calculated had done 462,000
> miles!!!

That's about the same distance my father's 2a that he bought new in 1961
has covered.

[Austin Shackles]

On or around Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:14:58 +0000, Ian Rawlings
<new...@tarcus.org.uk> enlightened us thusly:

>Blimey, just doing some staring out of the window and wondered how
>many times I'd have driven round the earth in my landy if I'd gone in
>a straight line for it's 177,000 miles, 7 times apparently! About
>25,000 miles around the planet, I reckon I do that slightly less than
>once a year..
>
>The moon, at its furthest point, is about 253,000 miles, has anyone's
>truck made it yet? Any made it there and back?

My 110 got to the moon, though not with me driving it the whole time. Since
Puffernutter is rebuilding it, I exepct one day it'll get back.

I know a chap who has a series I 107" which had, last I heard, done over
450,000 miles, all bar the first bit in his ownership.
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