Posted: September 29th, 2004 | Author: Foamcow | Filed under: Vintage | | Comments Off
My brother in law (who lives in California) was visiting at the weekend. He brought a CD with some images of his Ford GPW Jeep restoration.
I’ve made a small gallery of some of the images. I’ll try and get some more specs and info about the Jeep and I’ll get him to send me some more pics when it’s finished.
Apologies if the page displays oddly, the CSS gallery script is still work in progress!
Posted: September 27th, 2004 | Author: Foamcow | Filed under: Vintage | | Comments Off
Some bad news for whoever has a mobile with the number +4479763021453.
They left the following message on my mobile
“Hi mam wil u put sum food on 4 me can i av sum burgers plz i wil b ome in 20 minz Luv u thanx”
Please note the following points:
- I am certainly not “ur mam”
- You need to learn to dial a phone number accurately
- Lrn 2 typ n englsh, itz betta 4 u
- Sorry you didn’t get any dinner
Still, it happens to us all and I am only posting here as it made me laugh when I turned my phone on this morning… and not much else exciting happened to me this weekend.
Posted: September 9th, 2004 | Author: Foamcow | Filed under: Vintage | | Comments Off
So the latest space probe returns to Earth and slams into the Utah Salt Flats destroying the collected data.
It seemed a bit of an outlandish solution… “catching” a falling space craft.
It reminded me of “Catch the Pigeon”
hmmm.
My sources at NASA have revealed to me that for the next mission the vehicle will be an old Model T Ford with a klaxon type horn. The doors, bonnet and boot lid will fall off when the second stage is deployed.
The craft will be piloted by “Coco” and “Binky”, with the rest of the crew being made up of “The Marvelous Mancini Brothers”, Toto the chimp and “The Amazing Waldo”.
Experiments will be carried out into the behaviour of custard pies and buckets of confetti in space.
There is also a space walk planned during which Coco will test NASA’s new “Big floppy space boots”.
The whole thing will be fired into space from a giant cannon.
To prevent further instances as the one recently experienced, a giant safety net will be erected in Utah.
Roll up, roll up.
Posted: September 6th, 2004 | Author: Foamcow | Filed under: Vintage | | Comments Off
I went to a Radio Controlled Aircraft Large Model show at the weekend. Wow!
Honestly, I was blown away by the whole thing. So much so that I intend to take up a friends offer of flying with him in the future.
It was literally amazing what some of the pilots could do, and these weren’t little buzzy models, no! They were big things. 161 inch wingspans, petrol engines, smoke and cool stunts. Magic.
I will put some pictures up soon, but for now there are some (quite large) videos available here to whet your appetite.
To round it all of, it was a lovely warm and sunny day (makes a change lately) and sitting with a pint of cider, the largest Roast Pork Roll in the world and watching the aerobatic display was a great way to spend Saturday afternoon.
Chocs away chaps
By the way, the title of this post is the noise a model aeroplane makes 
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