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Re: Homemade Messerschmitt contraption!
« Reply #1 on: October 28, 2008, 08:39:28 pm »
Dear Blob

Now that is a first.

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Re: Homemade Messerschmitt contraption!
« Reply #2 on: October 28, 2008, 09:45:05 pm »
 Not quite the first. Anybody here remember Wynford Jones's "Shorty" as debuted at Bath rally 1993. Incidently, is "Shorty" still around?

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Re: Homemade Messerschmitt contraption!
« Reply #3 on: October 29, 2008, 05:44:49 am »
It’s not that it’s short that leaves me speechless, it’s the way in which it’s been crudely hand crafted, zoom the image (click on it) and you’ll see what I mean as only the nose is from a genuine Schmitt.

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Re: Homemade Messerschmitt contraption!
« Reply #4 on: October 29, 2008, 08:51:48 am »
It's plugly, but quite fun. Hope the mechanics are better then the bodywork!
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