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Old 04-09-2009, 04:10 PM   #1
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Thunderbird in storage for 33 years

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Old 04-09-2009, 04:21 PM   #2
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Have you twisted Dean's arm to run it at the 50th next year?
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Old 04-09-2009, 04:25 PM   #3
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This 'Thunderbird'?
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Old 04-09-2009, 04:37 PM   #4
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is that a planatec,amazing to think something that big can be in storage for 30 yrs
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The very same
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Old 04-09-2009, 04:44 PM   #6
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What motors? are they rebuildable?
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is the seating one in the front 2 in the back
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Old 04-09-2009, 04:59 PM   #8
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I think a couple of SCI 750s would be the ticket. What do you say Dean?
Yes the driver steers and throttles. Mr Shead used to do it all the time.
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Old 04-09-2009, 05:06 PM   #9
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I emailed those shots to TP - I have a feeling that he told me that he looked at the boat about 9 months before the RB.

If someone were to take it on as a project the thread called be called Planetec Project - could be interesting over the winter
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I think a couple of weekends should whip this lot into shape.
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Old 04-09-2009, 05:17 PM   #11
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Oh and who's the guy with the giant hand in the other picture? Makes the boat look tiny
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Looks remarkably clean in that engine room.
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it all looks very intact
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My wife and I met with Richard Benge on the the 25th Aug. and spent most of the day with him and his wife. We had lunch together and enjoyed listening to his old race stories. The price he is asking for this real piece of history is around 60,000 pounds.
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My wife and I met with Richard Benge on the the 25th Aug. and spent most of the day with him and his wife. We had lunch together and enjoyed listening to his old race stories. The price he is asking for this real piece of history is around 60,000 pounds.
how much would this need to have injected into it to bring it up to spec..looks like a fun project thou
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Wow! Not often you see a complete original classic like that! She's a beauty!
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The price he is asking for this real piece of history is around 60,000 pounds.
I guessed about 10-15 thou, I wonder which one of us is the optimist?
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I bet you could get double 2 shirts for a lot less than 60K.
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You could always make one of these out of it.

and you gotta have this
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