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I'm not quite ready to fully reveal yet, but I'm bursting with excitement so can't resist doing a little teaser

I have a winter project. It's not directly car related, but involves at attempt to do something pretty extreme in a vehicle that's never been successfully done before.

Things it involves:
Cold
Danger
Engines
Speed
Being a long way from home
A 6-part series on Discovery

Things it doesn't involve:
Wheels
Roads/tracks
A stopwatch

Hoping to get clearance from the production company in the next few days to be able to reveal more...

Interest piqued...!

Dis gon be gud!

Hardcore motorboating all the way to the North Pole in winter.

My bet is Alaskan crab fishing in a speedboat.

ETA With Richard Rawlings Wooooo

Motorised Ice Yachting Speed World Record ??

Microlight or hovercraft to a Pole? Probably not enough speed for it to be one of those.
First jetpack ascent of Everest?
Minisub to the Pole?
Northwestern passage by jetski?
Hot air balloon in the jetstream?

I reckon you'll be a natural on the telly

Antici..........

Ekranoplan to Antarctica?
Hovercraft to the top of Everest?
Jetski to the moon?

I know........

scotta wrote: Thu Nov 08, 2018 3:00 pmI know........

you know, and Jonny Wetherspoon knows!

I am guessing ascending a cold mountain on a skidoo or motorised heelies.

Scarily, some of the guesses aren't too far away. The right vehicle and the right geographic location have both been mentioned.

Fingers crossed it was Ekranoplan that was right.

Oh hell yeah Rev...

I mean it won’t be that but how cool would it be..

NotoriousREV wrote: Thu Nov 08, 2018 5:21 pm Fingers crossed it was Ekranoplan that was right.

Ekranoplan to the top of Everest

heelies up Everest it is then!

NotoriousREV wrote: Thu Nov 08, 2018 5:21 pm Fingers crossed it was Ekranoplan that was right.

Funnily enough, we did look at building something a bit like it - inspired by this https://www.hautetime.com/amphibious/88 ... sdkS44N63w and this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiLxXWgwj0M

However, the *danger of immediate death* factor has encouraged a somewhat less DIY/untested theory approach to the whole project, so we'll be modifying commercially available vehicles rather than building from scratch (slight shame, as we had a Subaru diesel and two Honda fireblades all ready to go)

Will you be doing whatever it is with ex-servicepeople?

Nefarious wrote: Thu Nov 08, 2018 6:24 pm

NotoriousREV wrote: Thu Nov 08, 2018 5:21 pm Fingers crossed it was Ekranoplan that was right.

Funnily enough, we did look at building something a bit like it - inspired by this https://www.hautetime.com/amphibious/88 ... sdkS44N63w and this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiLxXWgwj0M

However, the *danger of immediate death* factor has encouraged a somewhat less DIY/untested theory approach to the whole project, so we'll be modifying commercially available vehicles rather than building from scratch (slight shame, as we had a Subaru diesel and two Honda fireblades all ready to go)

Well, that’s a disappointment