defender

Bought a Defender 130 Outbound.

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I loved my 83 Cadillac, but I quickly ran into problems with it. I wanted to have a comfy car for 3-4 hour road trips to nearby places like LA and Palm Springs. I pretty quickly figured out that’s a bad idea in a 40-year-old Caddy, especially one with the HT4100 engine that doesn’t fare well in the desert. If I somehow had a giant warehouse garage, I’d have kept it, but I couldn’t justify keeping a car that I could only use in the fall/winter, and only around town. When thinking about a road-trip replacement, I kept coming back…
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Sold the Land Rover Defender.

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Our adventure in Iceland is coming to an end, and we’re moving back to California at the end of this month. We can’t bring our Defender with us – the US makes it doggone near impossible to import a new-ish car from another country. We debated a lot about whether to build a vacation home in Iceland, and we even went so far as to buy a lot up in Siglufjörður. If we went through with building the house, we were going to keep the Defender in storage until the house was built, and then use it as our car.…
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We Bought a New Land Rover Defender in Iceland.

cars, defender, iceland, land rover
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When started planning to move to Iceland for a while, we had to decide what to drive – and we picked it out long before we got here. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Brent Ozar (@brento) If we were just staying in the capital city Reykjavik, we’d just rent a normal small car. However, we’re staying in a rental house in the countryside in the north of Iceland, and we’re staying during the winter. Even the long dirt driveway has hills that would challenge a regular small car. Our neighbor plows our driveway out with a…
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Hi. I’m Brent.

That's me, Brent.

I live in Las Vegas, Nevada. I'm on an epic life quest to have fun and make a difference.

I co-founded Brent Ozar Unlimited to help make your SQL Server go faster. I also maintain sp_Blitz® and the open source First Responder Kit repo.

My current car collection includes a 1986 Ferrari 328 GTS, a 1964 Porsche 356, a 1971 VW Type 3 Squareback, and more.

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