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hamei
Who joined Feb. 24, 2004, 4:10 p.m.
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Wrote the following at Nov. 23, 2012, 5:34 a.m...
OKay okay, so you wanna talk computer Merlins ... how about this ?

http://www.lambdassociates.org/merlin.htm

went looking for

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but this;

http://retrorides.proboards.com/index.c ... read=94551

and this;

http://forum.woodenboat.com/showthread. ... ure-thread

had me in stitches :P
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jan-jaap
Who joined June 17, 2004, 10:35 a.m.
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Wrote the following at Nov. 23, 2012, 7:37 a.m...
That's hideous :lol:

Now, how 'bout this:
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The Napier Bentley is a vintage racing car; a one-off special built in 1968 by David Llewellyn. It was originally built on a Sunbeam chassis, but after a serious accident was re-built on the chassis of a 1929 8 Litre Bentley. It has a 24 Litre Napier Sea Lion W12 aeroplane engine (the same as that used in the silver Napier-Railton, which it resembles closely), which develops approximately 550 bhp (410 kW).

The owner obviously has a good sense of humor:
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vishnu
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Wrote the following at Nov. 23, 2012, 11:56 a.m...
Crackers!

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hamei
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Wrote the following at Nov. 23, 2012, 5:27 p.m...
At one time I had a Continental W670 ... I'm really glad I sold it before the strange engine disease could get into my system :)

But now that I think about it ... mounted amidships with an automatic transmission and some thirties-style bodywork like that German propellor-driven train ...
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vishnu
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Wrote the following at Nov. 23, 2012, 7:10 p.m...
The German's had a lot of weird ideas at the time... :lol: Not the least of which was the multi-stage V3 cannon:

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