Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/06/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I LOVE jabba the couch potatoe! Thanks for showing, Philippe Op 12-jun-06, om 06:10 heeft Arche, Harvey het volgende geschreven: > I'm in Tennessee: I shoot what I see. > Xtol woes sorted out, here's some stuff that had been waiting to be > souped. > >> From the mall: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/album395/jabba > http://gallery.leica-users.org/album395/babycakes > http://gallery.leica-users.org/album395/handoff > http://gallery.leica-users.org/album395/shopping_pattern > > For a promotion at the stock car track, they brought in the 'Green > Mamba', a Rolls-Royce engined jet-car. Midway through the evening's > races, it came out and did a couple laps. This means that at the > beginning of each straightaway the driver hammers the throttle for > 2 seconds and then coasts half way around the track, because > there's no way they're going to let this sucker get up to speed. > Thats not what its for. > They have two junkers stacked in the middle of the infield, and > after the scheduled races, the Mamba is going to melt them down! > So, come time, they roll the Mamba over and chain it to stakes > already set, chock the wheels, and let the driver climb in. He > weighs about 290 and sits in a little cage, presumably to keep him > from getting sucked into the engine. Now we have high-speed > portable blow torch about 3 feet in diameter, ready to go at it. It > takes about 6-8 minutes to reduce the stacked junkers to glowing > slag, and then the fire trucks, who have been waiting patiently, > roar over from where they were parked about 100 yards away, with > full lights and sirens, and hose off the rubble. Big steam clouds, > and everybody goes home happy. Is this a great country or what? > http://gallery.leica-users.org/album404/mamba > > GOYA & shoot, > Arche > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >