Australian Belly Tank

[SPARKY]

lol 

[Dr Goggles]

I watched that video again and there's one thing that got me. I was never really into Modified Sport cars. They always looked like an oddball rule motivated class...."just build a liner" I always thought....

Then I saw Keith Copelands GT6, gone.

What a car.........

[Lynchy]

Yeah, Big Gaz and I spent a bit of time checking it out as well!

[kiwi belly tank]

HEY!!!! Watch your mouth, the bloody thing's got doors!!
  Sid.

[manta22]

Except for the one from Supermarine, it could be called "The World's Fastest Spitfire". Keith is back racing again after recovering fron a bad crash a few years ago.

Regards, Neil  Tucson, AZ

[Dr Goggles]

HEY!!!! Watch your mouth, the bloody thing's got doors!!
  Sid.

Yeah, I know a front wheel drive Pommy car with doors...... I'm calling in sick........305mph. After a crash like that , to come back with that car......"just cough twice for me Keith"..........."&^%^$#%%^$$, they're HUGE"

[kiwi belly tank]

Now if you took a Spitfire, narrowed it up a whole pile & parked it on the back of your tank.................. just sayin!
  Sid.

[Dr Goggles]

The Buddfabb if you ask me has all the late second world war fighter silohuette cues you'd ever need. Spitfires had a beautiful profile til they got to about version X and the bubble canopy...the earlier P51s........hmmmmmm.

But if you're talking about them Triumph Spitfires then I have to say I have an enthusiasm for them that remains below detectable levels, on any equipment. The Copeland car is no more a Triumph than I am a cow or a cotton bush ........see if you can nut that one out whipper-snapper.

[kiwi belly tank]

I gotcha, ya older than me fart.
Don't tell anybody I said this but I think it's a real looker too. 
  Sid.

[Reverend Hedgash]

Sitting in another impressively long project meeting bored to tears so I thought I'd send my favorite design community land speeders some images of our building under construction here...

http://occipital.com/user/b380-297772/dik-jarman

If you were wondering why the cost of steel is going up check it out. These show only some of the complexity of the project, photos simply do not explain it well enough. When you are standing looking at a steel petal 100 feet in length curling it's tendrils around another one of the same length to meet underfoot somewhere and then only after a while see there are about twenty workers within that mess of metal you only then start to realize the scale of this thing. This may be the last building I design through to completion, I cannot imagine getting a similar project to satisfy me after this.

Things are moving here and we are looking at moving ourselves to Shanghai where there are some more amenities such as cheese (and I don't mean Jack!)

rH+

[kiwi belly tank]

People with an excessive amount of money spending it on frivolous things, how very western.
  Sid.

[Reverend Hedgash]

That's a good point Sid and I have questioned the ethics of this project myself.

But then if we didn't try and build the Sydney Opera House, or whichever great world building you can think of then it would be a pretty dull planet. The rest of this town is cookie cutter residential skyscrapers and very dull. I think this just may be a diamond in the sand. Excessive yes, a product of a government spending yes, worth it? I would like to think so in the long run as an inspiration that things can be better and not just the same. Civic pride is a worthy investment as long as the population isn't starving (like they were 40 years ago).

Both Amber and I are thinking of heading back to do penance in an outback Australian indigenous community anyway, I kid you not, we are preparing the applications now!

Dik

[Stainless1]

Oh come on guys, they have to do something with all that money we Americans are sending them... I think it is good to know that they hire folks that know how to build 'em  to build.

[Dr Goggles]

That's a good point Sid and I have questioned the ethics of this project myself.

But then if we didn't try and build the Sydney Opera House, or whichever great world building you can think of then it would be a pretty dull planet. The rest of this town is cookie cutter residential skyscrapers and very dull. I think this just may be a diamond in the sand. Excessive yes, a product of a government spending yes, worth it? I would like to think so in the long run as an inspiration that things can be better and not just the same. Civic pride is a worthy investment as long as the population isn't starving (like they were 40 years ago).

Hey it ain't for landspeedracers to question that sort of stuff... what are you doing inside anyway Sid?

Both Amber and I are thinking of heading back to do penance in an outback Australian indigenous community anyway, I kid you not, we are preparing the applications now!
Dik

Never a dull moment, that's a gutsy, gutsy effort, from the most congested part of the planet to the most remote.

Oh come on guys, they have to do something with all that money we Americans are sending them... I think it is good to know that they hire folks that know how to build 'em  to build.

from what I gather that's just the interest on what you guys owe 'em

[Milwaukee Midget]

Oh come on guys, they have to do something with all that money we Americans are sending them

Yup - We borrow it so we can expand a base in Canberra to keep their power in check.

Shrewd, eh?