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B-58, now there was an aeroplane! one of the Arfons brothers used a scrap B-58 engine to get the world land speed record. Back to the wooden car, it is cheap and the price of hardwood being what it is today, it might be worth buying for the wood.........just joking! Chris

+1 for both your posts Graham. Why we have to accept that criminal foreigners are allowed to live among us is a mystery. I fear for my children and grand children and the sort of country they will be living in a few years from now. Chris

Do you mean that this will be even more difficult to get in and out of than a GT40 with doors that go over the roof. I had that trouble with a Lotus Exige where entry was compared to posting yourself through a letter box. Chris

OK, point taken. I know all about the Cold War because I was part of it for 2 years in the late '50s. With regard to the Concorde accident, I understand that the Air France Concordes used different tyres (Michelin?) to the BA Concordes.

Coincidently a fully restored FW190 made its first flight since 1943 on 1st December. It had been restored by the Flying Heritage Collection (FHC) in the US and was shot down near Leningrad in 1943. The flight went very well apparently. In WW2 they had a good reputation and were a match for the...

Happy Birthday Jack. May you have many years of enjoyment of your SLC - and any other cars you might care to build. Chris

I thought that modern commercial jet engines had an armoured ring round at least the hot stage to contain any debris caused by a catastrophic explosion in the event of a turbine disintegration. This was obviously not the case in this event. The wing tanks were punctured but luckily not the...

Got mine on Saturday. It is well up to the usual standard. Chris

From me too. A terrible tragedy.

Careful, he might enjoy it! Chris

+1 Rick. The situation is just the same on this side of the pond. I cannot understand why they don't target the people who fit the profile for suicide bombers for fear of upsetting a few individuals, while enormous inconvenience is caused to everyone else - and the whole process becomes so...

Peter Mandelson hasn't been an elected representative for a long time. He was put into the last government by being appointed to the House of Lords (and thereby bypassing the democratic process) and then given a position in the cabinet (and again bypassing the democratic process). Chris

After all of the foregoing, my energy is really sapped. Perhaps it is time to branch out into something else and leaf things as they stand at the moment. Chris

I will have to Ash the Mrs if I am allowed to buy it.

If this sort of thing happens for real in a foreign country I would of thought that, apart from contacting friends and family at home, your best bet would be to contact your embassy for help. Western Union is a favourate with scammers because they just hand over the money with no (or very...

It is not often that the driver is too cool in a GT40! It is usually very much the other way round, even in Winter. Nice to meet you and Jez on Wednesday. Chris

As it happened, his engine performed very well in the race. I wonder how they did that.....? Chris

A good , interesting race. From what Mark Webber said post race, he had to back off towards the end because of an overheating engine, otherwise it might have been more interesting as he was catching Vettel. So it is all down to Abu Dhabi. Vettal implied in a pre race interview that he would give...

Apparently a prosecutor in Brazil's Special Criminal Court has said that Massa could be jailed for up to six years if he 'defrauds' the Brazilian public by deliberately letting Alonso pass. You couldn't make it up!

I would agree with everything that has been said about Southern GT and Mick and the boys.