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x 2 - very nice Graham!

x 2 - very nice, Graham!

Excellent build, Marco - and top photography, too !

Exactly my thoughts, Richard !

Very nice Suzie !

Excellent replica Anders - and a very different subject from your other builds!

That looks fantastic !

Excellent model, Mike (I just happened to discover it now) and interesting story, too (yesterday I learned that Mazda took 4th place in this endurance race)

Very nice Hudson, Jon - looks like a real one at a car show!

x 2 - your big scale models are truly amazing, Tomasz !

Thanks, Rich, for the kind words - but that was nothing special.

Thanks, John!

Thanks, Tony! Just build your Protar GTO - kits are meant to be built and not collected (well said, but I have to admit I have about 300 unbuilts left)

Thanks Gary, while the Monogram GTO (ex-Aurora) has a totally wrong body, the kit went together very easily - in spite of all the openings - I had a lot more trouble building the old Union/IMC Ford Mk IV.

Some outrageous and exceptional models here... my real crown jewels are still witing to be built (some Fisher resin race cars etc.) - from my about 100 American cars I sold off more than 70 in the last year and only kept a few that are rare or that I like very much: here are 3 of them: 1. JoHan Chrysler Turbine car 2. amt 1961 T-Bird (original) - got this one from a pen-pal in the U.S. in 1985 as a built-up, unpainted glue-bomb - spraypainted and reassembled again - I will restore this one day using some parts of amt's 62 T-Bird (original wheels and tires are still there! 3. JoHan 1968 Imperial promo (green) -from the same guy as above - painted it in white and mint green - interior mostly untouched (could bring a lot of money today if I had it left in original condition!)

Hey, Tom - on ebay.de there is actually a Cheetah body kit (no engine, chassis or wheels) - Carrera 1/24 slot body ==> see link: https://www.ebay.de/itm/Carrera-Digital-1-24-Bausatz-Bill-Thomas-Cheetah/233959374371

Thanks, Larry, but they are just average quality builds (especially when you look at the models of other board members here)

Looks good, Bruce - this is a re-pop of the old Merit kit from the 50's, which has been reissued several times by Smer (Czech Republic) and actually from Mistercraft(Poland) - it represents the 1947 GP Belgium winner, driven by Louis Chiron - here is a link: https://mistercraft.eu/en/23-racing

Here are 2 old builts from the 80’s: Monogram’s 1/25 Ferrari GTO (ex-Aurora) and Revell AG’s 1/24 GTO from 1988 (= Italeri reissue). In those pre-Internet days my only references were some car books, model kit catalogs and modeling magazines. I was in a modeling hurry back then and rushed through building kits: from 1982 up to 1991, I built around 170 – 180 kits (mainly American cars and trucks, and some sports and race cars in between) – I often did not even paint parts that are hard to see, so I left floors and some engine and/or interior parts unpainted. Recently, I picked up some of them and tried a little more detailing (with a car library of about 200 books and hundreds of magazines + Internet I am able to finally lift some secrets): The Monogram GTO was dressed up as a fictitious historic racer (80’s style) and got a clear coat over the bare red plastic – the ugly headlights were hidden under protective covers whereas you can’t hide the steeply sloping front and rear body panels without major surgery. So I swapped the too narrow wheels with those of Revell’s Austin Healey 100-Six (H-1202, this one will undergo a complete restoration) and called it a day. The Revell/Italeri GTO should represent the yellow car from the 1965 Spa-Francorchamps 500 km (DNF). Now I know what is wrong: the body should only have 2 instead of 3 slots behind the front wheels – I cut these back in the day, so I left it. The elongated air scoop was made new from very thin aluminium sheet, the chromed wheels got a respray from the can (rim silver from a car shop), I added a rear license plate and handwrote the letters directly onto the body in the front (found a pic from the race in the net!) – the car had yellow headlight covers in the beginning of the race, but I’m not sure about the # 31 on the trunk (no model has it, and the real car pics do not show this perspective) – the side exhaust maybe wrong also, but I will leave it as is; I fabricated some leather straps for the hood from wire and black duct tape - the stance of the car has already been lowered in 1988 (it looked too high for a racer) I still have a Protar, a Fujimi, a Gunze and 2 Italeri GTOs in my stash…

Gorgeous paint on a spectacular model of one of the most beautiful sportscars ever (proves again that in the 60's the greatest sportscars saw the light of the day) - nice photography, too !

Rich, if you meet Pete again, please let him know that I really like very much his excellent Can Am book, which has been in my library for 25 years now, and I also like the story of Riverside International Raceway by him.

Great looking model, Dave!

Very nice replica - good proportions, too!

Very nice model, Nigel, of one of Japan's best looking cars ever !

To all you modelers out there that have ordered one of Chris' transkits: you might get seduced to order another one - it is THAT good ! I've never seen a resin kit body that is so thin and flexible, yet very crisp and showing all the fine details. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED !!!