How about a tow truck – BRG of course?! {:o] Sorry. Couldn’t resist. One
of the sketches for the leaper would be good.
By the way, my family & friends visited Littlefield’s amazing military vehicle
collection here in Portola Valley today – many pics here:
http://www.mishalov.net/military-vehicles/pictures/img_1962.html
The journalist who ran the tour referred often to the engineering differences
of various countries’ approaches to tank building. Of the Russians, he said
they went for overwhelming numbers, with good guns, rather than crew
protection or longevity, as the turret castings & armor for the various
T-series tanks we saw illustrated. The American philosophy was to built
bigger, better, longer-lasting tanks that protected crews well (after losing
so many Shermans in early WWII) and could be simply field serviced. The
German approach was to build powerful, fast, complex tanks that could easily
kill other tanks, but could not be driven far and had to be trucked back to
the Mercedes factory for service (e.g., the Panther). The British (you all
know where I’m going philosophy was to build big, powerful tanks of such
complexity that they ran only occasionally and were extremely hard to service
anywhere (e.g., the discontinued Chieftain). We were treated to the various
jokes about Lucas and making British engines with sparkplugs in impossible
locations, etc. But, no mention of Jaguars – phew! The Saving Private Ryan
sound track is all Littlefield’s equipment. And, when a film crew wanted to
film a running British tank, where did they come, of course? However, the Brit
tank chose not to run just on the days the crew showed up – sound familiar?
So, they took its picture and ran a German tracked howitzer around the field
instead, for sound. I asked if they had a XK-powered Scorpion light tank, but
the closest they had was a Fox.
Right now, their team is restoring a 1944 Panther that sat in a Polish river
for 45 years before being trucked out. Its Mercedes, 12cyl diesel engine will
actually run soon (a tasteful 3-pointed star on each valve cover). They also
have 2 Scud launchers, with defanged Scuds, and, most impressive, a Dragon
Wagon – it can grab a wounded tank, drag it up ramps over its rear wheels and
truck the sucker anywhere. I could have used an XJ-sized one a couple of
times.–
Alex
79xj6L SII (BRG + wires)
86xj6 SIII (Black)
61 Sprite MkII (Red)
Menlo Park, Calif.
Lou Danzico wrote:
Listers:
At the Thursday meeting of the British Car Club of Northeastern
Pennsylvania, there was a fellow wearing a shirt with the MG logo imprinted
above the breast pocket.
I have a picture transfer kit that allows you to transfer images printed on
special paper to cloth using a hot iron.
So I started looking for something Jaguar that I could imprint but could not
find anything suitable.
Do anyone have any ideas? It should be relatively small, maximum 4" high by
4" long, or smaller, and represent at least Jaguar, and preferably Jaguar
XJ6.
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