"BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires" (biturbo228)
12/07/2013 at 09:23 • Filed to: Solid Journalism
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"BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires" (biturbo228)
12/07/2013 at 09:23 • Filed to: Solid Journalism | 5
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In 1993, CAR journalist Michael Kirsch was robbed at a military checkpoint in Bosnia during filming of a freelance TV documentary. He made it to the nearest town with just the clothes on his back, where his life was saved by three young people who took him in and gave him food and shelter until a UN convoy passed through. In 1994, he bought a £190 Morris Marina and drove 3000 miles to rescue them from the warzone.
Sort of puts the supercar romp across the Alps into context doesn't it?
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daender
> BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires
12/07/2013 at 09:27 |
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SAVE THE MARINA!
Eazy-O
> BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires
12/07/2013 at 09:39 |
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The orange Marina looks quite handsome with those wheels, dirt and "two-tone" paintjob. :)
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> Eazy-O
12/07/2013 at 09:42 |
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It does doesn't it?
I expect that's how they lured their victims into buying one.
zadtheinhaler
> daender
12/07/2013 at 09:43 |
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Get outta my head, dude.
Goshen, formerly Darkcode
> BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires
12/07/2013 at 09:54 |
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So the Morris Marina served for something? We have to print this and build a time machine to send this to 1978 COTY judges. The Chrysler Horizon didn't do this.
liquid_popcorn
> BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires
12/07/2013 at 10:29 |
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Super cool story; thanks for posting!
mikecyc72usa
> BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires
12/10/2013 at 12:02 |
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In a former life in Special Forces I spent a bit of time in Bosnia hunting down bad guys and getting good guys freed. No words can describe the weirdness that it was. Then I got assigned to Africa and later South america, and it just got worse. Awesome story, vaguely recall hearing it years ago.
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> mikecyc72usa
12/10/2013 at 12:33 |
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Bloody hell. Very impressive.
Personally, I can't imagine it. I don't think I've ever been anywhere close. The most dangerous place I've been is Venezuela, and that's no warzone.