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« Reply #390 on: January 25, 2004, 10:45:16 pm » |
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« Reply #391 on: January 26, 2004, 12:25:37 am » |
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Just make sure you avaoid the Helicopters and more importantly the Fireworks!! Also pretty usefull for anyone wanting an impromptu haircut . |
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« Reply #392 on: January 26, 2004, 09:21:21 am » |
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Also pretty usefull for anyone wanting an impromptu haircut .
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« Reply #393 on: January 26, 2004, 02:00:05 pm » |
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No where to pack the tent or beers, but could be fun.
BTW crosswinds could be hard to handle.
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« Reply #394 on: January 26, 2004, 02:24:58 pm » |
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BTW crosswinds could be hard to handle.
Probably so, but what about drag.......that heel looks like a very eficient parachute The original Commer must be more aerodynamic than that |
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« Reply #395 on: January 26, 2004, 04:43:29 pm » |
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The original Commer must be more aerodynamic than that Do like the heel - one of the better outrageous customs! Taking the themes of aerodynamics (not very) and a supposedly environmentally-friendly modern replacement (albeit one that does not appeal to petrolheads)............. BTW this thread is now not only top of the number of posts (very adjacent to 400 posts.....) but is the most viewed.... [attachment deleted by admin] |
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« Reply #396 on: January 26, 2004, 05:09:26 pm » |
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and a supposedly environmentally-friendly modern replacement (albeit one that does not appeal to petrolheads).............
The new environmentally friendly age is here.........At lunchtime I saw a Fuel Cell powered london bus. Damned thing had steam coming out of it. (I know that's what it's supposed to do). Reminded me of the days of steam driven vehicles......................Now then, a steam driven Commer. How about that |
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« Reply #397 on: January 26, 2004, 05:37:21 pm » |
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« Reply #398 on: January 26, 2004, 05:39:22 pm » |
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« Reply #399 on: January 26, 2004, 05:39:31 pm » |
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« Reply #400 on: January 26, 2004, 05:45:38 pm » |
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And of course, merging the themes of drag races down the Mulsanne, new tramways, steam, motor racing and the history of Le Mans (and this is about the 400th post now....) there is of course the Bentley and the train.................
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« Reply #401 on: January 26, 2004, 07:37:42 pm » |
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« Reply #402 on: January 26, 2004, 07:49:20 pm » |
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Anyone ever tried train racing?
The road between Hastings and Folkestone (can't remember what the road # is) had a railway line that crossed the road twice, beyond Rye, out on Romney Marsh. I used to amuse myself, if stopped at the first crossing, in booting my car through the twisties and trying to beat the train, which was traveling pretty much as the crow flies, to the next crossing. It was highly weather and traffic dependent, but I did it a couple of times.
Slightly less hair raising is the A1 Autoroute, which runs parallel to the Eurostar railway line, where it crosses the Somme. I tried to keep up with a TGV on the way home from the 2000 race. I was reading (not necessarily doing) 160mph and the train just pissed- away, ahead of us. Those things rock.
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« Reply #403 on: January 27, 2004, 02:51:44 am » |
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I did the A1/Eurostar race too Matt. On the way down to Disneyland Paris February 2003. Didn't look as though it was going that much faster than me when it passed me as I was doing 90mph so thought I'd boot it and see. Couldn't get anywhere near though.  |
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« Reply #404 on: January 29, 2004, 11:27:08 am » |
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Changing tack slightly, and going with the theme of another thread on modifying minis, the Commer could of course be turned into a magnificent beast that a) doesn't know whether it is coming or going, or b) just scare the cr*p out of following vehicles.................
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