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Week 12 2010, from March 22nd Weekend.

Though the way may be the same, we every day see it in a different way. Arie

Posh Doelen Hotel.
Guy

Dramatically cute.
Guy

Where the North-West tunnel dips down.
Guy

One of the blockages rolled off.
Guy

The Cheetah was the inspiration for numerous small boys dreams in the early Sixties (including my own). Built as a proposal to General Motors as an alternative to Ford 's very successful Cobra project, the Cheetah employed many of the styling cues that were common to the era. A long hood and short beck stretched taught over the biggest motor that could be stuffed between the wheels. Like the Cobra, Jaguar 's XKE and Chevrolet 's own Gran(d) Sport Sting Ray, the Cheetah was designed to do one thing very well...GO FAST. Assembled from off-the-shelf Corvette parts and fabricated frame and suspension components, the Chevrolet derived engine was positioned behind the front wheels to create a front-mid engine arrangement to make a stable high performance platform. Because the chassis was not stiff enough, the Cheetah exhibited quirky handling characteristics at high speeds. The Cheetah was fast. Speeds of 185 mph were recorded at road courses, and a claimed 200+ mph is claimed at the Daytona oval. Gregg

Aluminum Cheetah by Spark 1/43. A fire destroyed the Cheetah production facility and claimed the unfinished cars and more importantly, the molds and tooling to create more cars. The fire did not end the Cheetah story though.

Sunday.
"Full name is Dodge Battering Ram."
Guy

"Why don't you smile first?"
Guy

"It also rides like a ram."
Guy

No not Italian.
Guy

This morning Bernard Boulier who lives in our village, dropped in with a camera. Saying goodbye he went around the back of the house where a path next to the brook leads to a pond, where two squirrels live, that often go down to the water for a drink. After some time Bernard came back showing this photo of a swan which is believed to have belonged to the famous fleet of swans that was once owned by KLM and after the merger with Air France moved to a place near our house. The swans still make spectacular photos like in the KLM-advertising of the old days. Salut! Gijs Berk