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Took "Beanie" our 1995 Polo Green to a non-judged show at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum on Sunday. All different kinds of cars. A C2 with almost truck mudder tires on it, C3 and a few C4's. We were the only Z. Coolest cars, (besides ours of course) had to be the Hudson's - about 6 of them including a Hornet, Kommodore and a pickup. There was also a tricked out old Continental with hi-lo shocks on it. For a small donation to the Museum you could get your car's picture taken with two of the vintage aircraft - a B25 Mitchell and a Norseman. We really wanted to get a picture with the Lancaster Bomber as it is only 1 of 3? left in the world today, but as it was flying we couldn't get close enough. As a matter of fact just as Tripler was pulling the car up to the Norseman, the Lancaster fired up its engines. Like a Z, the sound of the Lancaster engines is unusual and unmistakable. Once you have heard a Lancaster's engines in full rip you can recognize that sound for the rest of your life. Tripler is going to post some pics.

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Awesome pictures with those vintage birds!! And VERY clean looking Beast......Everyone knows the Polo Green ones are the fastest ;)

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vmax was 272 for the B25
Considering it had 3400 hp not that much better than a ZR-1w/375...
of course vmax was in knots...
and the ZR-1 has a much smaller payload and ceiling...

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Who Hosted the show? Wills chev held one there a few years ago.

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The Air Museum itself hosted the show.

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That Lancaster bomber is of only 2 flying in the world right now, of the 7,377 built by Avro, there are 15 others that are pretty much complete, but only 2 are airworthy.
In August 2014, VR-A, FM213 aka-Vera, flew over to Britain and joined its sister PA474 based in Coningsby, the UK, is operated by The Battle of Britain Memorial. This was the first Trans Atlantic crossing of a Lancaster bomber since 1975. They flew formation demonstrations in the UK.
Each RollS Royce Merlin V12 engine produces 1280hp from 27 liters or 1,650 cubes displacement.
Mr Plunkett rents these old planes to fly over his annual Cadillac car show near London Ontario.

That would have been a cool show to have gone to, good photo op for the 57.
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