Pointless & impractical vehicles
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Jameshow
Veteran
Like 0316 to Christians!
The hover craft or the caravan or both?!🤣
Jameshow
Veteran
Mad!!
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
The hovercraft kind of sums up some of my memories of the late 60s/early 70s Britain. Patriotic but struggling to find some sort of modern justification for that patriotism. Hey we can invent cool things like ... er ... I know hovercraft! They were the patriotic "I'm backing Britain" answer to everything but turned out to be at best niche, and generally commercially a bit useless.
Maglev trains. Concorde. Hovercraft. Cool ideas that flopped rather.
The Harrier jump jet and the QE2 are also part of my memories of that period although they were probably somewhat more successful.
Maglev trains. Concorde. Hovercraft. Cool ideas that flopped rather.
The Harrier jump jet and the QE2 are also part of my memories of that period although they were probably somewhat more successful.
Drago
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Oh indeed. La Muerte Negra was a serious tool in its day.
I worked on the Hovercraft at Pegwell Bay for a season many moons ago.. SRN4's 😎
HMS_Dave
Grand Old Lady
They should turn the front seats around and put a 27L Rolls Royce Merlin Engine in it and put it into production. Not unlike this infamous jobby.
Fantastic for a budding Arab Prince and his Wife on a lazy warm sunday afternoon in the dunes...
Drago
Legendary Member
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Technically it's a Meteor engine, a detuned and un-supercharged unit developed from the Merlin to power tanks.
Nevertheless, it's still the thick end of a thousand horsepower and utterly barking
John Dodds, it's owner and creator, was a bit of a cheeky feller.
https://www.hagerty.co.uk/articles/car-profiles/the-beast-john-dodd-car/
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Joey Shabadoo
My pronouns are "He", "Him" and "buggerlugs"
That's got to be Drago's
