Other uses for GRP........
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Now bear with me on this one, ....what other sport appart from motor racing is based on speed and everyone uses a tubular chassis with fibreglass body around it?? ( and is land based)
well there are probably a few, but the one i'm thinking off is Bobsleigh....
was talking with a coteam member ( NZ Olympic bobsleigh team) the next few years building up to the next olympics, in Itlay, and got talking about bob construction etc and then thought of tvr.....I can see it now, the new TVR the 'toboggan' flying past the audi designed one(austria) and the porsche design( germany)( yes they already exist)... do you think they would be interested? great publicity, and would probably only cost them a few thousand ( well ten or so) to develop...... then all we need is about 10k a year sponsorship and we're off to the games.....so any offers/suggestions?
a nice reflex spice colour i think, would go down a storm......
S.
well there are probably a few, but the one i'm thinking off is Bobsleigh....
was talking with a coteam member ( NZ Olympic bobsleigh team) the next few years building up to the next olympics, in Itlay, and got talking about bob construction etc and then thought of tvr.....I can see it now, the new TVR the 'toboggan' flying past the audi designed one(austria) and the porsche design( germany)( yes they already exist)... do you think they would be interested? great publicity, and would probably only cost them a few thousand ( well ten or so) to develop...... then all we need is about 10k a year sponsorship and we're off to the games.....so any offers/suggestions?
a nice reflex spice colour i think, would go down a storm......
S.
Now bear with me on this one, ....what other sport appart from motor racing is based on speed and everyone uses a tubular chassis with fibreglass body around it?? ( and is land based)
well there are probably a few, but the one i'm thinking off is Bobsleigh....
was talking with a coteam member ( NZ Olympic bobsleigh team) the next few years building up to the next olympics, in Itlay, and got talking about bob construction etc and then thought of tvr.....I can see it now, the new TVR the 'toboggan' flying past the audi designed one(austria) and the porsche design( germany)( yes they already exist)... do you think they would be interested? great publicity, and would probably only cost them a few thousand ( well ten or so) to develop...... then all we need is about 10k a year sponsorship and we're off to the games.....so any offers/suggestions?
a nice reflex spice colour i think, would go down a storm......
S.
May be wrong but I beleive the UK team use a British Aerospace design and are sponsored by Zannusi
the british team are sponsored by lots of people as well as getting a shed load of lottery money, and we still managed to beat them in the last comp I did against them, I'm on the NZ bobsleigh team..... I thik they use a variety of bobs and they may be sponsored by british aerospace but they havnt designed the actual bob.
Nice guys on the team though, a lot of guys in the forces, so they effectivly get paid to play... nice work if you can get it....
how about a crystal topaz, would go well with the ice....
Nice guys on the team though, a lot of guys in the forces, so they effectivly get paid to play... nice work if you can get it....
how about a crystal topaz, would go well with the ice....
Hey up, that brings back memories! When I was at school,all the schools in our area had 'links' with Royal Navy ships (or in the case of both my schools, submarines). Back then the Royal Navy had a bobsleigh team (maybe THE British team? I forget), and they brought a couple of the bobs along to show us. Now I don't mind the odd bit of speed (though I draw the line at coke, before anyone else gets in there ;-) but lobbing myself down a sheet of ice in a plastic bucket with razor blades on the bottom isn't my idea of a laugh (give me an aeroplane anytime!). And as for those loonies who do it single-handed on a tea-tray... 
Ian
Ian
Hey, dont knock it etc.....gives you a rush like you wouldnt believe.....last time we crashed I slipped a disk and didnt notice for three hours until the adrenaline wore off!!! as for those 'athletes' with the tea trays, well thats just silly, although those things are surpisingly heavy, as are bob's. a four man will come in over 200kg, and you have to pick those things up to move them around....
i'm tending towards a starmist blue now....
i'm tending towards a starmist blue now....
in fact if anyone would like a ride down a track , could easily be arranged, did anyone see the clarkson, episode of 'speed' 2001 I think, where he went down the run in Igles, Austria?, his face when he got out at the bottom was a picture, apparently they did wind him up before hand though....
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