Family motor boating

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Family motor boating

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As the years went by, the Boggis family decided to combine both their love for fast motors and motor boats...
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Wow, thats a 1927 "Bogmobil super slick"...you don't see many of those today.... and thats great uncle Horace Boggis driving..!!! He used to get some odd looks driving round East London........most likley because he wore a Sombrero !!..... :perfect:
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Mercs are like women, no 2 are exactly alike. That's what testing is about. In general it is safer to test motors and props than women!
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..but the wheels had to come off soon after seat belts became law.

This one of Grandma and the Dog about to get the trick skis out.
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You have to admit...... Us boggis's have always been............ "Real Cool"............ 8-)
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Lol, definitely cool! Did you ever get the full set of pics of Jade doing the parade at Cardiff 2007?
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This happy couple are about to set off fishing, although with a nagging feeling that the pilot of the Imperial Airways' flying boat service would discover his plane was missing a wing-tip float.
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Rapier wrote:..but the wheels had to come off soon after seat belts became law.

This one of Grandma and the Dog about to get the trick skis out.
How about, don't take the wheels off just move them up.

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Excellent - love these posts of early boat humour!

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Simmonds fitted from new with what, I believe, is the only running factory marinised Daimler 2.5 litre V8 (as fitted to the Daimler SP 250) in the UK. Please let me know if you find another! Believed to be Norman Buckley's race boat.
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