DonW

Thanks Johnny I'll look on kijiji, but it's the postage that's the dealbreaker, especially at the moment. Cheers, -Don.

Nice!

No thanks, I'm in a hurry. I'll take the rickshaw.

Yes, thanks for reminding me about Lanchester. Their various vehicles always seemed to have a touch of Jules Verne about them. Love the Irish Ghost story.

Inspired by young mr. Snake I went looking for a Miss Deal. There's none to be found for sale in these waters. Nearest is in the 'States, and nobody that's selling will ship out here at the moment. Likewise the Crate and the Bandit. Nothing worse than a glue-bombed Orange Crate... But I never got my hands on the Studebaker and I really want one now.

Those Caudrons are so insanely French. Must be around ten inches long? The truck is a pretty fine machine, especially for that money.

Does anyone remember the TV series 'Survivors'? Probably only shown in the UK, I remember a sequence where a guy was defending his farmhouse, with a shotgun, from an attack by neighbours. I quote Wikipedia: 'Survivors is a British post-apocalyptic fiction drama television series created by Terry Nation and produced by Terence Dudley at the BBC, that broadcast from 1975 to 1977. It concerns the plight of a group of people who have survived an apocalyptic plague pandemic, which was accidentally released by a Chinese scientist and quickly spread across the world via air travel. Referred to as "The Death", the plague kills approximately 4,999 out of every 5,000 human beings on the planet within a matter of weeks of being released.' We're getting off lightly it seems.

It seems like the military preferred to use quality cars in war, for example the Rolls Royce Silver Ghost armoured car used in World War 1: And this one from the second World War (Ok so not Brass Era!): "The 1939 Rolls Royce Silver Wraith used by Field Marshall Montgomery from 1944 to 1964. It was the first 'civilian' vehicle to land in the Allies' French beachhead on Juno Beach on 9 June 1944, only three days after the commencement of the Normandy landings.

Wow! Pretty good first car to have! Do you still own it?

No worries Ken! I guess I'm a bit of an old reactionary! ?

Probably helped it stay on the ground by giving the air a way out! I found a picture of it:

Excellent although I must agree with those views on the tyres. But I love the build - and I second your view on the fragility, I gave up on mine having tried to modify the one I had to match my 1:1 2002ti Alpina, The A and B pillars kept braking as I recall.

Looks surprisingly 'right'. When he was test flying for Armstrong Siddeley, my Dad got to fly this modified DC3 with two Single Mamba propjets: He also got to fly this, a modified Lancastrian (Lancaster bomber derivative) with a couple of Rolls Royce Nene jet engines replacing two of the Merlins: Lucky man!

Thanks, Tom So what was your first car?

Excellent Tucker! But that orange with the Jagermeister logo always works for me,

Thanks for that, Doug! I'd put Chuck at no.1 and Little Richard above Elvis, personally. Cheers, -Don.

Bette Midler, well said! The rest weren't too shabby. Also the Killer, I wonder if Jerry Lee got on with LR?

Of course the Cheetah has power steering. Just not the usual kind...! It's common for fighter planes to have tape over their gun ports to reduce drag, so why not tape the door up? But I'm with Ralph - do both doors. What if the car ends up lying on it's side, drivers side down? The passenger door might come in useful. But in any case there probably won't be a windscreen left so who needs doors? Thanks for posting.

Wow! Never seen a Goonybird on floats before, let alone a fully armed bomber version! Thanks, -Don.

Thanks Alan. I've read a bit about this amazing character. Should never have trusted his SatNav!

A good age, respect to the man. A true original, he really tore up the rule book. The record execs tried to sell Pat Boone but the kids wanted Little Richard!

Oh yeah, I remember them. They had some great album covers but I never really heard much of their music. I'll be sure to remedy that now!

Thanks, Tom. We are very lucky to live so close to the Beacons, it beats South London where we had been living for many years. What's it like where you live? Is OH Ohio? Cheers, -Don.

I feel sorry for the armadillo. The mud's well done,

617 Squadron was formed to carry Barnes Wallis' bouncing bomb in a mainly successful attack on four major dams which supplied water for the German industrial war effort. They went on to develop precision and highly destructive bombing techniques which they deployed on many hundreds of raids. They were good. I hope Star Wars doesn't detract from their efforts and place in history. Nor those of Wallis himself. Nice Model. -Don.