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Offline Dr Goggles

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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #2385 on: February 28, 2012, 04:10:33 PM »
The Sprite of Sunshine at Simon Davidson's "Salt and Smoke" exhibition.

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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #2386 on: February 28, 2012, 10:19:02 PM »
Thats art right there mate!
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #2387 on: February 28, 2012, 10:35:15 PM »
I love that photo.  :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #2388 on: February 28, 2012, 10:51:44 PM »
you could have put a gold filter on the lens and then with a golden halo, we might have thought that it was driven by a reincarnated Salt Saint or a wayward Angle!
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #2389 on: February 28, 2012, 11:06:35 PM »
Simon, I do wish I was there to share.

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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #2390 on: February 28, 2012, 11:16:06 PM »
you could have put a gold filter on the lens and then with a golden halo, we might have thought that it was driven by a reincarnated Salt Saint or a wayward Angle!

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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #2391 on: February 28, 2012, 11:41:55 PM »
 :-o  :cheers:  :cheers:
Miss LIBERTY,  changing T.K.I.  to noise, dust, rust, BLUE HATS & hopefully not scrap!!

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."   Helen Keller

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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #2392 on: February 29, 2012, 08:02:31 AM »
That's looking very spritely.  8-) Wayno

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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #2393 on: February 29, 2012, 08:18:30 AM »
He got all the way to Bonneville and realised he forgot something
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #2394 on: February 29, 2012, 09:01:58 AM »
He got all the way to Bonneville and realised he forgot something
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Bring it next time, won't you?   :cheers:

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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #2395 on: February 29, 2012, 09:36:35 AM »
The "stealth" tank was sooooo much easier to get through customs... if you had canodized after you got to the states it would be easier to see  :-D  Dang thing does sit really close to the ground   
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Offline Dr Goggles

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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #2396 on: February 29, 2012, 04:08:53 PM »
According to my significant other  "that's Wonderwoman's brother and his amazing invisible car off to solve some crimes".......I'm wishing I hadn't shown her that photo, she's not going to let it alone anytime soon....mocked at home and on the forum...




Speaking of low, here is a shot of Frank Kletchkus's of the Reverend and his nice hat.

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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #2397 on: February 29, 2012, 05:07:50 PM »
If it's any help, you're mocked at my house, too.  :lol: Wayno

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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #2398 on: February 29, 2012, 07:40:21 PM »
Mocking you here right now
And where is your HANS device
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #2399 on: March 01, 2012, 02:18:31 PM »
I see that he has a flat bottom to match his cars.

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