Life changed 😭😭😭

 Sadly life changed on me and I was never able to get my beloved Rusty back on the road.

I am going to be 100% honest here, it was a rather unsettled period in my life and I had to come to terms with far more than just getting rid of an old Land Rover.

A beaver tail recovery truck picked us up from the petrol station and dropped us back at home.

Needing to be mobile and back at work on Monday morning I had to find something that started, ran and had ability to tow a caravan.  So enter the "temporary" Ford Maverick 2.7TDi.

Great truck for a bargain price, did everything I needed it to.

The Maverick stayed and the Discovery was sent to Grantham and laid up in the back of the yard until I had time, or so I hoped, queue the Nissan Navara works truck and I barely used the Maverick, it needed work as well, new ball joints and bushings on upper and lower wishbones and the front wing crumbled in my hand when I was going through it for the MOT.

Then on that fateful Tuesday morning the now ex texted to tell me that after 13 years and a baby, she didn't want to be with me anymore, turns out she's just a lying cheater who was shagging around behind my back while I was working my arse off 😒😒😒

The Maverick still wasn't road worthy and that ended up joining Rusty in the back of the yard.

I rented a house and moved, bought Rusty and the Maverick home to Melton and started to figure out the future.

What was the outcome?  The list of jobs on Rusty had grown, it was already a gearbox and transfer box but he needed a power steering box, pump and all the pipework, I noted a lot of play and backlash in the front diff too!

In short, the cost and time necessary just said no and I made the tough decision to let him go and do the cheap and easy repairs on the Maverick.

Waving good bye to Rusty was hard after the break up of my family.

I want to thank you all for following our journey and reading to the end of this sad chapter, I never thought it would end and certainly not like this.

The Maverick needs welding, maybe Mavis needs a blog of her own 🤔