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Why did I miss this? Excellent modifications, Tim - wheels and stance are perfect - looks jst like the original!

Very nice replica of a car where you don't see built kits very often - one of the famous French "Grandes routières" before WW II.

Arrived yesterday:

Thanks, Don - which color is your 1:1 painted?

Thanks, Gary - my goal was to represent a typical mid-70's moving van ("bedbug hauler").

Fantastic model, Pierre - the Pennzoil livery looks great! I guarantee you, that this is not your last Tamiya kit!

Thanks, Brian !

Thanks David - one of the all-time Porsche classics.

You're in nobody's debt - it's my pleasure.

Very nice model of a not-so-easy kit (built mine around 1985, in my opinion JoHan's best and most complicated one!) - looks like the real thing ! Well done!

Tim, you are right - the red Bugatti Atlantic might have been a well-done replica, because their are only 3 (?) originals in existence. Anyway, the "Chromjuwelen" exhibition had some more highlights for me: Ferrari 250 GT/L (lusso), one of 2 MB 300 SLR "Uhlenhaut" Coupés (on loan from the Mercedes works museum), a W 196 Streamliner, a 1929 Blower Bentley, a 1930 Alfa Romeo 1750 (also on loan from the Museo Storico), the 2003 Le Mans-winning Bentley, Jochen Rindt's Jaguar E-type, a very early "Gmünd" 356 split-window Coupé and some others. You beat me also with this 6 C 2500 - I've found some more pictures I've taken back then - here they are:

Very well done with incredible detailing, Dave - the seat cushions or the spare wheel - great!

Rich, this is an excellent model - makes we want to attack mine as soon as possible (but with about 250 kits in my stash?) I especially like your "special service" for us in writing some explanations/descriptions under your photos - very much appreciated! I immediately took my kit out and checked the parts trees - I DID find sperate hubcaps, but centerlocks seem not to be included here - am I correct or did I simply oversee them? I would like to build mine with Rudge/centerlock wheels like the one I saw in Padova/Italy in 2014: black with a cream leather interior (almost like your body color):

How could I miss these? Well done racers.

Tim, I just remembered having seen a second one - probably a "corto" with the shorter wheelbase - at the "Auto e Moto d'Epoca" in October 2014 in Padova/Italy (Europe's largest exhibition/market for Italian classics) - it was exhibited on the Borrani booth together with a 2000 Spider from 1958: By the way, I have 2 light blue Leo models, a black one (White Box reissue) I have sold already, but one of these will be turned into the 1947 Mille MIglia winning car of Clemente Biondetti (have an excellent decals sheet from Tom Tanner for that)

I can't remember what was written as a description - could it be Ralph Lauren's car (which is black today, IIRC) before repainting? It had those characteristic disc wheels... Anyway, the Bugatti Atlantic is another one of my holy grails in classic automobiles.

Tim, thank you very much for posting these photos here (pebble Beach and other places). The only 8C2900B Lungo I ever saw in the flesh was 15 years ago at the Viennese Technical Museum - there was an exhibition with some extraordinary cars called "chrome jewels", and the Alfa Romeo works museum (Museo Storico) had their 2900 Lungo on loan for this exhibition (by the way, it is the role model for the Alfa Centenary Collection) - here are some pictures of that one:

This is as nice as all your model cars, Mario - it would make up for a fine box art model ! As I remember from my own amt KW builds, the trickiest part is the mounting of the mirror brackets!

Thanks, modeling fellows, for the positive comments on that old build!

Thanks to all of you for the nice comments, guys - I really appreciate that. I think I should spend a lot more time at the workbench creating models instead of sitting in front of my computer for hours every day admiring other people's work. Then the (poor) outcome will raise, too.

Pierre, your road racer builds are amazing - I'm unable to tell which one I like best - I love them all ! Your classic NASCAR racers look good, too!

x 2 - especially cute is the A 35 !

You may not have built as many as you wanted to - but those are simply marvellous!

Gary, this is a great compilation ! I have admired these models over the whole last year, nice to see them all at once. Who cares when you have started them - whether it takes 2 weeks or 20 years: at the end it is the result that counts. You have always been an inspiration for us race car modelers. I'm looking forward to the models you have in the pipeline for 2023 - keep on building!

I intend to decorate this as the 1967 BOAC 500 (Brands Hatch) car from Chris Amon/Jackie Stewart: