Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/31

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Subject: [Leica] Re:'57 Healey
From: abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge)
Date: Tue Jan 31 15:03:01 2006
References: <200601301436.k0UEXT86057006@server1.waverley.reid.org> <001401c6260e$f3dd6bd0$5902a8c0@DD4FYK21> <43DF5C07.70906@summaventures.com> <ceb1a5650601310503w4ae3db49t41392dc115c4afae@mail.gmail.com> <005c01c6266e$33bb5190$56e74142@D1S9FY41> <43DF6EA6.6030505@gmx.de> <009d01c62673$896526c0$56e74142@D1S9FY41> <43DF7AA5.6020403@gmx.de> <9A012715-F3A3-47EE-B4E0-C1A5E07FB80D@btinternet.com>

I read the LUG via gmail so when I read Frank's post about the
amphibious Alvis what was displayed alongside? "Armored Vehicles" The
spot to find it! It is all here!

Oh my. F1 to armored vehicles.

AB

On 1/31/06, Frank Dernie <Frank.Dernie@btinternet.com> wrote:
> A friend of mine had a 6 wheel amphibious ex-military Alvis. He lived
> in Blackpool and we went fishing in it - loaded up at his house then
> drove to the beach straight across and into the sea. It did about 2
> mpg, dear even then.
> Frank
>
> On 31 Jan, 2006, at 14:56, Douglas Sharp wrote:
>
> > But they had decent "pulling" power ;-)
> > Funny, in my youth the local lads went in for army surplus vehicles
> > more than sportscars, Austin Champs (Rolls Royce engined and about
> > as unreliable as you can get), Austin Gipsy, de-commissioned
> > armoured cars, early Unimogs and Haflingers, one even had a Volvo
> > "Sugga" (which means pig in Swedish - and looks like it too). One
> > lad even had a fully amphibious Alvis Stalwart 6-wheeler, makes a
> > Hummer look like a low consumption car, and you have to be a
> > mountaineer to get into it. My mate Malcolm was the only one wirh
> > anything even distantly related to a sportscar - a Triumph Vitesse.
> > Douglas
> >
> > Seth Rosner wrote:
> >
> >> Doug:
> >>
> >>
> >>> Tractors and sportscars seem to go together - Lamborghini and
> >>> Aston-Martin were both made as an expensive "hobby" of tractor
> >>> manufacturers.
> >>
> >>
> >> .........but they didn't use their tractors' engines, thank heaven
> >>
> >>
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