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I used to work at the Preston sites ( for 31 years) which used to build the lightening aircraft....now Eurofighter Typhoon.
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Silvercat
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I had a blue Ford Fiesta XR2...very nippy little car back in the day.
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not sure pininfarina would approve of this conversion! Sometimes unique is not good!
Sbarro Super Eight/ Ferrari 308 | Speed8Classics
Sbarro Super Eight, unique Swiss Franco Sbarro project car for the 1982 Geneva show ! Based on a Ferrari 308 GTB chassis, all technical components Ferrari, just serviced with new cambelts, fuel lines...perfect driving ! Streetlegal with Dutch registration ! Back to the Eighties !!!www.speed8classics.com
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wtf, that's just hideous
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Seems to be leaning towards a 6R4 in design without the nose cone and rear spoiler.
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another maserati on a french side street...
lifes2short
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seems that way, except the 6R4 wasn't a playboys toy thing, it was designed for a specific purpose, to win rallies
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That's brave as everytime I go to Paris I'm traumatized by the huge amount of cars damaged from parking contact.
My Ms French tells me it's allowed to touch and even push a car with your bumpers when she was a Parisian.
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Some background on this in easily digestible format here:not sure pininfarina would approve of this conversion! Sometimes unique is not good!
Sbarro Super Eight/ Ferrari 308 | Speed8Classics
Sbarro Super Eight, unique Swiss Franco Sbarro project car for the 1982 Geneva show ! Based on a Ferrari 308 GTB chassis, all technical components Ferrari, just serviced with new cambelts, fuel lines...perfect driving ! Streetlegal with Dutch registration ! Back to the Eighties !!!
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Summer 2020 in Corsica...near Bonifacio
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It's true that have to be careful in France...they have a different type of respect for vehicles.
Paris has the most underground parking of any city I know, so as long as you are willing to pay, you can always find a spot close to where you are going. It just requires a lot of close quarters manoeuvring and precise door opening. In the 8 years she has been based in Paris, she has accumulated a few small door dings, some kerb rash, and a few scooter scrapes (they have no problem to scrape the car while you are stopped in traffic as they zoom by, and of course they never stop).
The plus side is some of the most beautiful and accessible roads/towns in the world.
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More McLaren/Gulf 
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I take it you were employed to take weight out of our front-line interceptor, the Lightning.
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Looks like Priti Patel's sucking her thumb after being a told off. I wonder what she'd done......
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I used to run a procurement team who bought a lot of equipments for Tornado, Harrier, Hawk, Typhoon and then latterly F35. A really interesting job TBH.
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You've been in a brilliant place. I worked where the equipment was designed and manufactured to generate breathable air from whatever was outside for the Tornado and for lots of other NATO fighter aircraft. So you might have been buying from us.
Tales abounded in the staff canteen (having a staff canteen dates the event, I think) One of my personal favourites was along the lines of "An airspace control RADAR operator in the '50s was horrified to see a dot hovering, suddenly start moving a great speed then accelerate to an impossible speed" It happened again and again. UFO? No. Top secret lightning under development and on test flights that no one admitted were happening. A vertical climb appeared on 50's RADAR as hovering. Levelling off after the climb, the aircraft's dot was moving quickly - because the aircraft was moving quickly. Then it accelerated to a top speed probably higher than any aircraft in service with the RAF today. The 50's operatoor would regard it as a completely impossible speed.
Wow.