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  • Spitfires being recovered

    I love it, the little guy won!!!





    still, very cool story even without the soap drama
    Doing it all wrong since 1966

  • #2
    Cool post SBG!
    Charter member of the Turd Nuggets

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    • #3
      nice.
      mention of some in the skies is even more awesome.
      Previously boxer3main
      the death rate and fairy tales cannot kill the nature left behind.

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      • #4
        Read that this morning..... it's cool stuff, for sure.
        Act your age, not your shoe size. - Prince

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        • #5
          Life is short. Be a do'er and not a shoulda done'er.
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          • #6
            Originally posted by BBR View Post
            I am pretty sure that the shipping crates were better designed than the well they put that poor Pentestar in.

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            • #7
              The Pentastar didn't have a crate.... remember?
              They put it in a concrete hole in the ground with no drain.
              Took them 3 days to pump all the filthy water out of the hole....
              Act your age, not your shoe size. - Prince

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              • #8
                Originally posted by bbr View Post
                christine lives!

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                • #9
                  these airplanes were shipped to Burma - thus they were packed in grease for the voyage on the deck of a ship. They never got out of the shipping boxes before they were buried; so reasonably they should be okay... still, I'm most thrilled that the guy who found them gets to recover them - the Brits tried very hard to take the find away from him.
                  Doing it all wrong since 1966

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                  • #10
                    I certainly hope they find them in pristine condition. Still, when they were crated they did not intend for them to have to survive for 60 years underground in a tropical climate.
                    Life is short. Be a do'er and not a shoulda done'er.
                    1969 Galaxie 500 https://bangshift.com/forum/forum/ba...ild-it-s-alive
                    1998 Mustang GT https://bangshift.com/forum/forum/ba...60-and-a-turbo
                    1983 Mustang GT 545/552/302/Turbo302/552 http://www.bangshift.com/forum/forum...485-bbr-s-83gt
                    1973 F-250 BBF Turbo Truck http://www.bangshift.com/forum/forum...uck-conversion
                    1986 Ford Ranger EFI 545/C6 https://bangshift.com/forum/forum/ba...tooth-and-nail

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                    • #11
                      I'm not so sure of that James........if the British Military packing methods were anything like ours at the time, getting the 10" of Cosmoline off of them might be the hardest part!

                      Hoping for the best. Its an awesome story and find, glad the guy who found them gets to recover them as well.

                      My only wish is that it could be filmed in a old-fashioned boring documentary method, with none of the surreal dramatic reality melodrama that todays audiences seem to require.
                      Of all the paths you take in life - make sure a few of them are dirt.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by STINEY View Post
                        My only wish is that it could be filmed in a old-fashioned boring documentary method, with none of the surreal dramatic reality melodrama that todays audiences seem to require.

                        X's 2!

                        I am glad to see the little guy won...for a change.
                        If you can leave two black stripes from the exit of one corner to the braking zone of the next, you have enough horsepower. - Mark Donohue

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                        • #13
                          Add me to ^^^^^^!
                          Warms the cockles of my heart. (whatever the heck cockles are!)

                          Here's to hoping they film it "properly"
                          No wonder today's youth seem ADDishy... With all that flitting around!

                          Too bad there isn't a real life "LEVERAGE" crew! Lol They would ensure the little guy won!

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