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Some of you might be watching this show: Cities Underground - on the History Channel. The show is all about the various buildings, tunnels, cities, and stuff that exists under today's modern cities; they've done roman remains and WW2 bunkers in London, various bunkers and tunnels in Germany, Rome, Scotland, etc.

Anyway - the bio on one of the hosts says "...spends a lot of time refurbishing his vintage '73 MG Sprite..."
 
I wonder when they will get to Seattle?? One of the most entertaining "underground tours" I have ever taken!! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/thumbsup.gif
 
I've been trying to catch this show, as it sounds fascinating. I saw the one about the WW2 bunkers in London, which still have lots of the original HVAC and electrical stuff sitting there.

I recently read about some underground bunkers at Brooklands that are still open. They were air raid shelters during the war as well, when Vickers was doing R&D at the Track.

I wonder if they'll do the famous Astor Tunnels?

-William
 
I'd bet the writer is silly on this one.
 
They were doing the catacombs of Naples the other night. There was grafitti from WWII when they were used as bomb shelters. Intresting burial parctices from thousands of years ago, and underground churches. Exact duplicates of the church above carved into the rock, and used by "the cult of the dead" to set up shrines to the old bones in the catacombs.
Weird stuff. neat show. That guy's definatly not clausterphobic.
I'd be going nuts in some of the tunnels he checks out.
 
The one about the underground Brewery was cool - the nazi's and the french hunkered down in them a few feet from each other. Interesting artwork on the walls down there.
 
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