So, no one likes them, then.Ford Ranger struck by lightning in Greymouth New Zealand.
It was still there in the mid 80’s. Used to go past it every day on the bus to schoolAutocar August 1972.
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When I was in NZ I had one and it was bulletproof did everything I wanted especially for putting my 450 mud plugger on the back and going out into the bush.So, no one likes them, then.
I always thought you'd be safe inside a car during a thunderstorm. What with Mr Farraday and sitting on rubber insulators.Ford Ranger struck by lightning in Greymouth New Zealand.
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I was under that impression too.I always thought you'd be safe inside a car during a thunderstorm. What with Mr Farraday and sitting on rubber insulators.
Eb
Apparently you are safe as you are in the cage, but the electricity passing around the cage causes heat and can melt the cage itself. Tyres have metal in them and in the case of a thunderstorm, humidity around them, plus the rubber is so thin (relative to the amount of energy) that a lightning bolt has no problem going through it. I wouldn’t volunteer to test this thoughI always thought you'd be safe inside a car during a thunderstorm. What with Mr Farraday and sitting on rubber insulators.
Eb
My father a long time ago.
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Once upon a time I lusted after this, and it's still not too shabby
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Interesting he went on to Race a Jaguar MK9 will try and find some pictures.That’s Brands Hatch and a Cooper.
Bit of Googling and it’s probably at The Cooper Driving School https://www.alamy.com/1959-historic...f595335b8471a39665f86b04f575f974&searchtype=0
I remember being able to drive into the station in the mid 80's and park my Triumph Dolomite between platforms 8 and 9, while waiting for the future Mrs Dr Eb to arrive from Exeter.Paddington station c.1959 / 60 with one of the early BMC press fleet Mk1 Minis...
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Well a short Video - but never mind.
Every time Teesside features on TV be it in documentaries or entertainment there is always the industrial views of the area often to our detriment (we do have some lovely areas too!)
Anyway Redker (as it is locally known) Blast Furnace was demolished this morning an end to a bygone age
I worked there too for a while prior to going to the oil industry in North Sea
Quite a personal moment
Redcar's landmark blast furnace demolished
The Teesside landmark that once produced 10,000 tonnes of iron a day is felled within seconds.www.bbc.co.uk
...or, as I heard it put over here (about the US), "a nation of people selling cheeseburgers to each other."Yet another industry we will never get back in the UK, as we slip ever further into becoming a nation of ‘service providers’. If you don’t make things, harness energy or genuinely create wealth, all you are doing is pushing sh1t around the drain hole!