Cheap horespower ?

bah beat me to it, saw this yesterday :)

as if they'll sell it the idiots! probably sell it to some terrorists :)

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Well, how about setting up a real cruise and dragstrip floating holiday centre.

Yeah, lightweight 20' alloy props, blue LED runway lights, Ecoteks, Surbos and K&N's on the steam turbines, the *ultimate* set of neons (recessed and underwater so you cant see the bulbs), flood the bottom 3 decks to lower her a bit, and install a weapons grade sound system and people would be queuing from here to the straits of Gibraltar for a go with their solo and visa electron cards waving. (c:

Actually there are a lot of "Cruisey Cruise" possibilities when one thinks about it.

Anyone remember the tyre advert (Continental?) where they had a car on the roof of a high rise doing handbrake turns? Easily recreatable, in a competition stylee, and for anyone not quite up to scratch, the stakes would be high.

A couple of ramps, few armcos and you could set up a circuit using the top 2 decks by the looks of it in the pictures. Sounds like the concept, with a bit of apocalyptic gloom could be made into a film with Jean Claude Van Damme or Kevin Costner.

The Fast & The Furious 3?

If everyone in the group clubbed together, maybe we could put in an offer. (c:

Sweet

Douglas

Bit small for that, 80 foot wide isn't really enough for an oval circuit, and

Mind you, with that catapult you can get some of those scally 205, Ka and whatnot to deliver some pretty shocking 0-62 times.

(And then charge extra to fish them out of the Med.)

RIP The Stig...

-- James