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05-09-2009, 08:26 AM
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Originally Posted by Mike Bontoft
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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Lets hope who ever buy's the lovely old girl, she get's rebuilt properly with a decent budget. !!!!
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05-09-2009, 09:07 AM
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Thunderbird Project
I think we would all like to see this back on the water,but the reality is you either purchase it for the hull only and put fairly stock engines in it,or you restore it as it once was,which means sorting that chain box out.Now that really is a one off piece of design made in the days when sponsorship paid for it,and the boat never really ran enough to sort the blessed thing out,the idea being it enabled the engines to be put side by side farther aft than normal for better weight distribution.No doubt it would be sold as a complete package,and that`s the dilemma.That air scoop was a la the Embassy F1 car design (Graham Hill team).At one point an ex-colin chapman employee designed it as an anvil type like the lotus 72 JPS F1 car,so he got a bollocking for that, being as it looked like a rival fag sponsors equipment!
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05-09-2009, 09:45 AM
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Them were the days
I seem to remember,and TP could confirm ,that in that Needles race of 1974,when the pic was taken,TP had a bag of fishheads thrown at him from the Shambles LV,as he powered round it rather closely.The fisheads landed in the cockpit so the story goes.
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05-09-2009, 10:38 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim Brooker
Lets hope who ever buy's the lovely old girl, she get's rebuilt properly with a decent budget. !!!!
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Ouch!
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05-09-2009, 12:14 PM
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Marathon Bout
Seconds away,Round 158.
I think the opponent has left the ring and gone to another venue!
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05-09-2009, 01:23 PM
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Originally Posted by FLYING FISH
Seconds away,Round 158.
I think the opponent has left the ring and gone to another venue!
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Sorry I don't mean to have a go at any one, but people start out on these project's with out thinking through how much it's all going to cost, (this is a total rebuild), sit down with some one who knows what they are talking about and work it out . EASY. Then buy the boat.
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12-09-2009, 03:54 PM
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That answers my PM to you then Mike!
Now if my numbers come up this evening..................
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20-09-2009, 09:50 AM
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Sure would be great to see the boat on the water again in either livery! (included a slightly clearer copy of your pic graham).
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20-09-2009, 11:22 AM
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Clearer Unoembassy
OK,OK,put more sharpness back in and more work on the chine.I thought you would make a proper job of it Nige,taking notes from your book of `How to fudge the centre crease and still retain a flowing chine line`.
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20-09-2009, 02:25 PM
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Originally Posted by FLYING FISH
OK,OK,put more sharpness back in and more work on the chine.I thought you would make a proper job of it Nige,taking notes from your book of `How to fudge the centre crease and still retain a flowing chine line`.
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ahh the good ole days when tobacco money was the biggest sponsers and powerboat racing was on mainstream tv 
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21-10-2009, 05:42 PM
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I hope that the asking price will be realistic enough for the boat to be bought by someone and restored! It's sacrilegious to think of the boat lying there going to waste! OK I'm a dreamer, but I feel passionate about these things!
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07-07-2010, 06:19 PM
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Update...
"Rob Gray purchased the Planatec Uno Embassy, shipped it to the US so as Mike Bontoft could re rig her. She should be back in the UK @ Drivers fairly soon."
Posted by Ciao on 05-07-2010 Muster Area / Cowes 2010 update (# 249)
"Both Dry Martini and Uno Embassy are on the way to England after successful test sessions in the Columbia river."
Lohring Miller
(05-07-10 Post #250)
Just thought I'd point this out, as nobody has commented on it yet....
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08-07-2010, 09:18 PM
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Re update
Delta28 your news are good sounds for my ears.
I hope that this 2010 Cowes edition will be a very great Offshore events. 
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09-07-2010, 05:03 PM
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Just the messenger...
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Delta28 your news are good sounds for my ears.
I hope that this 2010 Cowes edition will be a very great Offshore events. |
Not so much my news... more Ciao's and Lohring Miller's. I'm just the messenger here!
I agree though, with news like this...it's looking good !!
That was my main reason for posting - to tempt people over here, to watch. Even better if these boats attract more racers out of retirement, or it encourages new ones.
It would be good to meet you, Marco... and perhaps it will tempt littlenige over here too. It could be quite a gathering...
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09-07-2010, 10:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Delta28
Not so much my news... more Ciao's and Lohring Miller's. I'm just the messenger here!
I agree though, with news like this...it's looking good !!
That was my main reason for posting - to tempt people over here, to watch. Even better if these boats attract more racers out of retirement, or it encourages new ones.
It would be good to meet you, Marco... and perhaps it will tempt littlenige over here too. It could be quite a gathering...
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I would like to meet you as Nigel and Graham but unfortunately I have to follow the events of Cowes as forty years ago ...
But things have improved!
There is internet and not have to wait a month to see some photos ...
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12-07-2010, 07:45 PM
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Fear not Marco - my camera will be working overtime!
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12-07-2010, 09:04 PM
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Originally Posted by littlenige
Fear not Marco - my camera will be working overtime!
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I know Nigel! 
There will also the photographer of Cowes .... but not Beken....is Graham! 
BTW - One day will fulfill my dream of a lifetime .... pilgrimage to the Lotus Classic factory, see a fabulous 72 at Goodwood, visit the Imperial War Museum and see a Cowes Classic!
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15-07-2010, 09:19 PM
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[QUOTE=Delta28;184857]An old rival for Uno-Embassy:
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And both rubbing gunwales together at Drivers.Ain`t nature wonderful!
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15-07-2010, 11:35 PM
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It just keeps getting better........
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