Originally posted by dhfan
As long as somebody pulls us out, they can do what they like.

Well said that man !!!!

There seem to be a lot of people in this thread getting very arsey with each other for no apparent reason – if this is what the EF airshow crowd is like, no wonder the traders are staying away 😀 [/B][/QUOTE]

Whhooaaa , there Damien don’t tar me with the same brush , there are individuals who constantly harp on about EF , the state of this , the state of that , I accept that as a Scotsman I’m going to have to travel South to see the aircraft I want to see as the consumer base up here is too small to sustain any more than one maybe two good airshows up here . I utterly fail to see how that Duxford and EF’s dates clashing is a problem ?? , how many diehard Scots will be going to Duxford ??? , I bet you couldn’t fill a bus. Go watch at EF then travel to Duxford on another weekend !!, and HOI!! less of the #rsey bits , I think that has a different meaning up here

Woke up one morning with a black eye , burst nose , cuts and grazes , went to get my mate and he looked the same , we went back to the pub to plot revenge – got to the pub only to be told we had been fighting each other over a game of pool.

A friend and I went skydiving at Strathallan , went to Auchterarder afterwards to get pi55ed , we duly got pissed and found out there were no hotel rooms to be had , so we decided to sleep in the car ( a four month old Porsche 928 S2) could’nt sleep so we sat drinking our way through 2 crates of San Miguel , got bored so my mate decided to drive home , 02:30 on the A9 – flat-out , Master of Puppets blasting out the stereo , my mate duly lost control of the car , hit the central reservation Armco barrier , the car spun and hit the nearside Armco – ripping off the front passenger side wheel and strut , eventually came to at the end of a 300m debris trail , got taken to Perth Police station and had to listen to my mate getting a kicking in the cell next door . At the trial the police reckoned that by the extent of the debris trail and the length of the skidmarks ( in my pants ) he was “comfortably” exceeding 120mph – total injuries to me – cracked sternum, lacerations to my scalp and some lower leg injuries . Total cost to my mate was a 5 year ban , £1000 fine and his insurance got stiffed £30,000 by the Scottish Office for the Armco barrier – I now remind myself daily that beer is a harmful substance when used by idiots.

Originally posted by dhfan
If you really want to play silly b*****s, you could try the relevant bits from a TR3 or TR4!

Hmmm , that would definately give me the edge over my mates at the road runs !!! , and it would still look original . I did have a Fordson Super Major with a Turbocharged Perkins 6 cylinder diesel , good fun but a bit wobbly in the corners.

Both my everyday Fergies have the 2 litre Standard engine in them – nearly the same as the one in the Standard Vanguard , but the Fergie only revs to 2000rpm , I’ve ofter wondered what the Standard Vanguard camshaft and carb would do if fitted to a Fergie ???.

Originally posted by dhfan
Alastair

As you say, the DeLorean was basically a kit car.

I daren’t get involved with even looking at ground equipment, though I do keep wondering what I could use a Fergie for.

I have enough trouble with general junk and cars.

Attached is not mine, mine’s going back on the road in a week or two.
There’s another one coming in the next month or so as well.

Good job we’re not married, otherwise I might not be for long!

Wow , is that a Ginetta ?? , nice car , what engine is in yours ??.
If you are ever looking for a Fergie I basically collect junk and have a couple of palletised Fergies, I hate seeing them lying rusting in farmers fields so I generally carry a battery , jump leads , points , condenser , plugs and a gallon of petrol and if I can fire them up I buy them – I usually give them away for the price of the diesel it takes to deliver them .
Strange how women never appreciate the worth of junk and cars , I generally class myself as a young version of Fred Dibnah without the good looks.

Originally posted by dhfan
The entire bodyshell was fibreglass, built by Lotus and only clad in stainless. I think you’ll find the engine/box were Renault.

I stand corrected Ken , the basic shell is tubular steel clad in fibreglass – designed and built by Lotus , the engine is the same as the one in the Renault GTA , a lot of the suspension is robbed from Renault too , along with a lot of the interior . I wonder how much of the car was actually manufactured in Northern Ireland ??.

Thanks for the info about the RAF ground equipment book , it’s a sad hobby I know but I can’t afford an aeroplane so it’s the closest I’ll get to aviation for now !!.