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Offline lyric1

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Thunderbirds are go.
« on: January 10, 2015, 01:48:27 PM »
If any of you are old enough to remember that show with its amazing models from back in the day.

For example.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6u-s2jVpzY

Well the Hungarians built a machine right out of that old series & took an old WWII era T-34 tank & turned it into this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E16g1_ibpBM

https://autos.yahoo.com/news/tank-jet-engines-fights-fires-183036460.html
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Offline Hap

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Re: Thunderbirds are go.
« Reply #1 on: January 10, 2015, 02:16:37 PM »
They were huge in Britain when I visited in '67.
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Offline DREDIOCK

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Re: Thunderbirds are go.
« Reply #2 on: January 10, 2015, 05:01:01 PM »
Great Blast from the past!

Used to watch it when I stayed overnights at my cousins house on Sunday mornings
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Offline Drano

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Re: Thunderbirds are go.
« Reply #3 on: January 10, 2015, 05:20:39 PM »
Not to be confused with Captain Scarlet, another of the "filmed in supermarionation" genre.
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