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Is this the ideal beach/ surf truck? It's actually an early model of Toyota Landcruiser, photographed on Kaua'i, Hawai'i.
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Just to make a change from aircraft pics, my friend Carol asked to be taken to the Church in my '65 Tiger, to add a little style- and here she is, looking lovely!
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This interesting looking car is a Skoda Spider. 1100cc, 92 BHP and DOHC. 395 UXU was taking part in the 2011 Monte Carlo Rally, seen in George Square, Glasgow, Scotland. Never seen one before or since.
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This is a Class 50 locomotive, somewhere in the West Country of England in 1982. Surprisingly, Class 50, 50 008 'Thunderer' returned to service in June 2021 and is still working! It started as D408 in 1968.
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The USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74) steams slowly past NAS North Island in San Diego, CA. Note the NARF behind, full of F/A-18s etc, and the SSBN sitting high and dry in the floating dock. A single Hornet is on deck.
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Pooja poses with a ZSU 23-4, better known as a 'Shilka' in Astana, Kazakhstan. It's a SPAAG, a Self Propelled Anti Aircraft Gun. I see one gun has popped its cork!
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A Kazakh T-72 (?) fires his gun with a mighty boom at KADEX 2018 in Astana. The dust gets briefly airborne.
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A bit of shooting in Astana.
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This is the INS Kursura (S20) preserved on RK Beach in Vishakapatnam. It's one of four 'FOXTROT' class diesel-electric submarines built for the Indian Navy by the USSR, in this case in Riga, Latvia. It's pretty much complete inside, and nowadays there is
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We took our Sunbeam Tiger on the Cuan to Luing ferry to visit the lovely Isle of Luing.
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The Ford GT was closely based on the 1960s' GT-40- although it's a little bigger. The original is tiny, just 40 inches high but shares its good looks with this newer version
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I stumbled across the drag strip on Kaua'i, HI when scoping out the PMRF site at Barking Sands. I think this is a '57 Chevy Funny car, launching down the 1/4 mile.
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British Railways Deltic locomotive 55022 'Royal Scots Grey' during an open day at Haymarket, Edinburgh. Snapped by a teenage me probably with my Instamatic? All the ones based at 'HA' were named after Scottish Regiments.
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A Classic Car run to a distillery at Deanston in Scotand produced some unusual cars. BPH 4B was some kind of exotic modified AC Cobra Le Mans called A98. Never seen anything like it before or since. It seems this very car was responsible for the
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Pooja waits for the train to Hua-Hin, in Bangkok railway station. A pair of big Thai Railways Diesel locomotives behind her.
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A BM-21 Grad (Hailstorm) poses with its recent prey- a civilian apartment block- in Kiev, Ukraine. This was preserved in the Great Patriotic War museum there. The version of this used in WW II was the 'Katyusha' (Katie) or 'Stalins' Organ'. The 122mm
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More military surplus at the Gunsmoke Paintball site in Hadleigh. What are these things? I Googled it and they are GKN Saxon APCs. Introduced in 1983, but since withdrawn- we've supplied a bunch to Ukraine and have 147 in the UK reserves.
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As I post this, my much loved Audi S8 is in transit to our new home in Bulgaria. Here's my baby outside the Gleddoch Country Club in Langbank, Scotland. This, is a pilots car!
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This Dodge pickup is abandoned in the High Desert, South of Edwards AFB. I was there looking at the photo targets, and one of the X-21s and its resolution square are behind it.
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As a bit of a petrolhead, I hope this early Porsche 911 was saved. It was outside at California City RAP, CA. The back of it has clearly been on fire.
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The BMP is a pretty fast, and decent APC. This Kazakh example takes part in KADEX 2018 at Astana, Kazakhstan. The little ridges along the front are to deflect bullets.
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This AC Cobra joined us on a hill climb at the 'Rest, and be Thankfull' in Scotland. Great looking car! The owner was clueless, thought it was OHC.
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Spotting in some style. Lovely wife + Tiger near RAF Lossiemouth. She's a keeper!
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Is this a T-72? Anyway, it's chucking some gravel around at KADEX 2018, Astana, Kazakhstan. Personally- and it is only my personal opinion, I'm happy that KZ has distanced itself from Russias' Ukraine Fiasco.
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The creative people who run the ARM/ DMI salvage business near the Boneyard, constructed this motorcycle sculpture from whatever they had to hand.
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Mum, Pooja & Baby Aden- soon to be four months old, pose with a T-55 tank recovery vehicle in the little village of Ekzarh Iosif in Northern Central Bulgaria.
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The Ukrainians painted this tank-a T-62? (see Mc'L comment below) in the national colours, seen here in the Great Patriotic War Museum in Kiev. I wonder if it's still here, or off shooting at the visitors?
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Daughter Susannah (12) poses with a great looking Shelby GT500KR Mustang somewhere in California. KR stands for King of the Road.
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In the days of the Raj- the British rule of India- well born girls would come out to India to marry British Officers. This frankly beautiful memorial in the chapel at Fort St.George, Madras (now Chennai) commemorates one such Union.
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34067 'Tangmere' is one of the Southern Railways 'Battle of Britain' class locos to have been preserved. Seen here at Crewe. Quite a sight, I thought!
