If and when I find myself a more presentable more inspectable Land Rover, I would be willing to donate my current 98 Discovery to this potential rover rescue team! Im sure you've seen some of my posts all relating to the work it needs, but if I cannot get her all fixed up then at least if I give her to someone with the time love and patience, then maybe she can be all fixed up and sold to a deserving owner.

 

I remember that episode, I paused the video for a moment and picked out multiple Discoveries, Defenders and Range Rovers... It was quite frustrating. I remember that happened to me when I lived in Connecticut. I was driving along and I see this Defender 110 that had "SAVE ME!" written on the side of it, and I come in to the dealership to see what this was all about, after talking with the salesman for about 10 minutes he went into the dealership to find out the information for me, turns out it was traded in for a new car and was being put into cash for clunkers. I pleaded with him to let me buy it from them, but after about an 2 hours, I gave up... I really wish I could have saved that Defender.

 

That's what was wrong with cash for clunkers. Cars that were traded in with this program had to be crushed. Dealerships were given so much money that it was merely impossible to buy one of the cars back.

I remember when I worked in a Chrysler stealership, a dude was given close to 2k$ for a 1994 Astro Van + trade-in value which was more or less 300$. And another got close to 3k$ for a beaten up 1992 Pathfinder. Can you believe that?

 

And they had to pour some stuff in the oil pan that would keep the motor from ever being reused as well. I saw a few DII's at one scrapyard here. But I really don't have much desire for a DII, but still hate it that they wasted so many parts that could have gone to better use. That's how our damn government evolved. The things that all the manufacturers did was even worse, sending all the manufacturing capabilities off-shore as well as the jobs that went along with the "Outsourcing".

Those are the ones that should be tried for treason. We forgot all about pride, diginity, quality workmanship, and earning a good wage by doing good work.

 

I would certainly be willing to adopt it and give it a loving home during it's rehabilitation. I want to start a non-profit to donate refurbished Golf Club sets to returning vets as part of the Wounded Warrior Program, since so many of them are using golf as therapy and physical rehab. I refurbish classic brass headed Bullseye putters, real wooden headed woods, classic forged blades and wedges as a way to fill my spare time.

I have the following sets I have done: Gene Sarazen Strokemasters, 2 Sam Snead Blue Ridge Classics, MacGregor Jack Nicklaus Golden Bears, Rawlings Lee Trevino MVP Commerative Irons, Lynx Freddy Couples blades and early metals, and a nice set of Mizuno TZoid Pros in a Nick Faldo style bag. All are in appropriate period bags and I have matched up books either by or about that golfer sort of like a little library.

I also have several other clubs I have picked up at thrift shops, estate sales, and EBay. I want to start donating clubs to returning vets and work with them as a clubfitter to personalize a set to their individual needs and taste. To support this effort I want to place donation barrels at local Country Clubs and public courses and encourage people to donate their "Old Soldiers" (clubs they no longer use) to be refurbished and given to the returning "Young Soldiers".

I figure this will be a worthwhile use of my excessive free time I now have.
And I can use my LandRover to take groups out golfing. I am hoping to kick this effort off this spring. Wish me luck guys.