Tanks a Lot!

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Tuesday, January 2. 2007

Tanks a Lot!

1)  Fifty five tons of metal armour, 750 horses of power, a huuuuge big gun and about a grintillion gallons to the mile:

2)  Sixteen and a half tons, less horses full of power, slightly less huuuuge big gun, but faster and nippier:

3)  A generic "Armoured Personnel Carrier" of statistics unknown.  Possibly something like this:

4)  A four-wheeled-death-trap-Rik-Mayall-and-Ozzy-Osbourne-maiming device:

The connection is that I get to drive all four of these one day of my choosing this year!  I was given a "Driving Experience" for Christmas from some very thoughtful people.  I'm looking forward to it tremendously, with the possible exception of item 4 which I might well bottle out of on the grounds that I treasure my brain and would rather not see it squidged out of my ears or nose.

Thank you Claire and Jeremy - it's going to be a most excellent day out!

Posted by Rich in Diary at 17:07 | Comments (8)
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Ooh, nice one! Lucky beggar!
#1 Gottle (Homepage) on 2007-01-02 18:41 (Reply)
Ooh, have fun! I drove a tank way before I could drive a car, and it was scarily easy actually.
#2 Carol (Homepage) on 2007-01-02 19:04 (Reply)
Please can I come as a witness?
#3 Grandma on 2007-01-02 20:05 (Reply)
Spectators are £10 each, but they get to ride on a tank.
#3.1 jeremyp really on 2007-01-02 22:52 (Reply)
.... and ... are you allowed top shhot the gun??
#4 Grandma again on 2007-01-02 20:06 (Reply)
Is that a day at Bovingdon, perchance?
#5 lordhutton on 2007-01-02 21:01 (Reply)
Lord Hutton needs educating. Bovingdon is in Hertfordshire and is where Rich grew up, driving nothing more than a bike, a pogo stick and a yellow mini metro. The tanks live at Bovington in Dorset!!
#6 Grandma on 2007-01-04 12:59 (Reply)
She's right you know!
#7 elo15e (Homepage) on 2007-01-04 17:10 (Reply)
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