Re: this site looks like... « Result #1 on Feb 22, 2006, 6:01am »
Thanks for looking in still Kirsty...
Annoying thing is, looking at the stats, quite a few people look in and have a read (even log in), but not many are posting...
Maybe if we all try and keep up the posting levels we can generate a little interest and at least use this as our temporary shelter for those of us who have recently been made homeless!
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Re: How Many Cars « Result #7 on Feb 8, 2006, 1:48pm »
Hi Mighty !!
Given the latest news on ED today, I reckon we could be swamped this year with Top Fuelers
I reckon the following (Full Tour?)
Lex Thomas Andy Carter Tommy Micke Urs Siw Hakan Fallstrom (racing with Lorentzen & Moller) Hakan Nilsson
Then there’s the ones that (I guess) will probably only be out at certain rounds
Smax Rob Turner Suzanne Gary Someone in the 4th CBD Car?
Given the new on ED on the 3rd Feb (“as things stand CBD are only fielding one car this year”), then I guess we won’t see Joran in the UK ?? Views anyone?
Does anyone know what happened to Anita’s car (or Anita for that matter) Also, what happened to Rene Hersland, who was supposed to be licencing last year?
If all seats were occupied, we could see a mega field at some events. Big “if” I know, but I’d personally rather see an 8-car ladder, than a 16-car ladder, as it would make qualifying better. I’ve never been one for 300ft “squirts” to get into the field
Bowler
PS: With all those licences that are needed, it makes the T’Ball look all the better doesn’t it?
Drag racing Art??? « Result #10 on Jan 30, 2006, 9:20am »
Norwegian Top Fuel Ace Thomas Nataas became a pawn in a much publicised art theft when one of his ex-employees chose Thomas' race support bus to store Edvard Munch's "Scream" and "Madonna" after stealing them from a museum in Oslo. Although Thomas was aware that the paintings were stashed in his bus he felt he could not approach the police as he says he "feared for my life" as the gang was made up of "very serious people" who had done "big bank robberies"
Reuters - Edvard Munch's masterpiece "The Scream" was apparently undamaged in a 2004 robbery but the less well-known "Madonna" suffered a minor tear, a man accused in connection with the theft said on Monday.
"The paintings weren't wrecked in the robbery," Thomas Nataas told Reuters of the two works stolen by gunmen from Oslo's Munch Museum in August 2004 and then stashed for several weeks in a bus owned by Nataas on farmland north of Oslo.
"I saw there was what looked like an insignificant tear (in "Madonna")," he said. "The other ("The Scream") looked in OK condition." He said he had not inspected the works closely after stumbling across them.
Art experts had feared the works, painted by Munch, a Norwegian, in 1893, were badly damaged when the thieves ripped off the wooden frames and threw them out of the windows of a getaway car, apparently fearing the frames might be embedded with a satellite tracking device.
Nataas, 35, is due to go on trial next month charged with handling stolen goods. Five other men are accused of planning the theft and stealing the paintings, which have not been recovered.
"I am innocent," Nataas said, adding he only found the paintings in plastic bags after noticing that someone had broken into the bus.
Separately, he told Norway's TV2 independent television channel that he had been scared to report his find to the police, fearing that criminals might somehow take revenge on him. He said he knew one of the other accused men.
Nataas said police had bungled an attempt to seize the paintings when the robbers moved them to a new hiding place on September 24, 2004.
He said police had been tapping his phone when one of the accused called Nataas several days in advance to say they would collect the paintings. Police charge that Nataas wrapped up the paintings ready for collection.
"I don't know why the police didn't come and pick up the paintings. They had full control," he said.