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04-09-2009, 04:10 PM
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Thunderbird in storage for 33 years
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04-09-2009, 04:21 PM
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Country: England
Location: Great Horwood
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Great Horwood
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Have you twisted Dean's arm to run it at the 50th next year?
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04-09-2009, 04:25 PM
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numbskull
Country: United Kingdom
Location: South
Occupation: none
Interests: none
Boat name: Leviathan
Boat make: Phantom 28
Cruising area: South Coast
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: South
Posts: 15,959
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This 'Thunderbird'?
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04-09-2009, 04:37 PM
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Registered User
Location: hayling island
Boat name: snow monkey
Boat make: extreme 24
Engines: mercruiser 6.2
Join Date: May 2004
Location: hayling island
Posts: 2,082
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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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04-09-2009, 04:38 PM
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The very same
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04-09-2009, 04:44 PM
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numbskull
Country: United Kingdom
Location: South
Occupation: none
Interests: none
Boat name: Leviathan
Boat make: Phantom 28
Cruising area: South Coast
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: South
Posts: 15,959
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What motors? are they rebuildable?
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04-09-2009, 04:51 PM
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Registered User
Location: hayling island
Boat name: snow monkey
Boat make: extreme 24
Engines: mercruiser 6.2
Join Date: May 2004
Location: hayling island
Posts: 2,082
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is the seating one in the front 2 in the back
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04-09-2009, 04:59 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 186
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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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04-09-2009, 05:06 PM
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Registered User
Country: England
Location: Great Horwood
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Great Horwood
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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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04-09-2009, 05:06 PM
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I think a couple of weekends should whip this lot into shape.
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04-09-2009, 05:17 PM
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Registered User
Country: Guernsey
Interests: burning fuel
Boat name: obsession
Boat make: extreme 24/ scarab 30
Engines: extreme=496HO scarab=twin 5.7L + gale banks twin turbo on trs
Cruising area: Guernsey, herm, sark etc.
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 292
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike Bontoft
The very same
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Larby, I think you've found your air scoop
Oh and who's the guy with the giant hand in the other picture? Makes the boat look tiny
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04-09-2009, 05:20 PM
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numbskull
Country: United Kingdom
Location: South
Occupation: none
Interests: none
Boat name: Leviathan
Boat make: Phantom 28
Cruising area: South Coast
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: South
Posts: 15,959
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Looks remarkably clean in that engine room.
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04-09-2009, 05:24 PM
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Registered User
Location: hayling island
Boat name: snow monkey
Boat make: extreme 24
Engines: mercruiser 6.2
Join Date: May 2004
Location: hayling island
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it all looks very intact
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04-09-2009, 05:53 PM
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Posts: 186
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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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04-09-2009, 06:40 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2009
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Quote:
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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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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04-09-2009, 07:16 PM
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Registered User
Country: Guernsey
Occupation: Engineering
Boat make: None, boo!
Engines: Turbines mainly!
Cruising area: The inside of my workshop!
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 2,646
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Wow! Not often you see a complete original classic like that! She's a beauty!
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04-09-2009, 07:36 PM
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Registered User
Country: Guernsey
Interests: burning fuel
Boat name: obsession
Boat make: extreme 24/ scarab 30
Engines: extreme=496HO scarab=twin 5.7L + gale banks twin turbo on trs
Cruising area: Guernsey, herm, sark etc.
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 292
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike Bontoft
The price he is asking for this real piece of history is around 60,000 pounds.
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I guessed about 10-15 thou, I wonder which one of us is the optimist?
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04-09-2009, 07:51 PM
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#18
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 6,891
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I bet you could get double 2 shirts for a lot less than 60K.
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04-09-2009, 08:44 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 186
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You could always make one of these out of it.
and you gotta have this
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05-09-2009, 02:55 AM
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Executive Member
Country: U.K
Location: Poole
Interests: Boats
Boat name: Indecent Proposal
Boat make: Phantom 18
Engines: Mariner V6
Cruising area: southwest/southeast
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Poole
Posts: 137
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Matt
I bet you could get double 2 shirts for a lot less than 60K.
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