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- From: ant@galadriel.bt.co.uk (Antony Espindola)
- Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
- Subject: Re: High speed in USA?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.093911.8977@galadriel.bt.co.uk>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 09:39:11 GMT
- References: <1992Nov17.153849.14364@bnr.uk>
- Organization: Data and Business Comms, BT Labs, Martlesham, Ipswich, UK.
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- From article <1992Nov17.153849.14364@bnr.uk>, by datasbld@bnr.ca (Datasbuild):
- >
- >
- > One of the funniest things I ever saw on a motorway was a caterpillar made up
- > of about eight or nine snowcat thingies (you know the things, white painted
- > cab things on caterpillar tracks) fastened together and doing about forty-
- > five MPH. Coming back from work in the evening, on the same stretch of that
- > motorway (M3) I was buzzed by a Spitfire! A week later it was by a Fokker
- > Triplane! A very exciting stretch of tarmac, I can tell you.
-
- Having driven a Scorpion Light Armoured Tank, you appreciate the
- speeds these things can do.
- The Scorpion has twin Jag v12 engines in them, one for each track.
-
- You get funny looks overtaking people at 80mph on the way to Heathrow
- airport.
-
- Antony.
- DoD#1832
- > M'Lud. "Roger, Green-three. Bandits at four o clock, attacking now!" Zoooom
-