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excellent execution of a wonderful kit - certainly one of tamiya's best ever. The biggest challenge seems to be painting the hubcaps for me (between the chrome star and rings)

Excellent build of the last Le-Mans-winning works Ferrari. I will save the interior photo for my own buildThe tires seem to come from Protar's 250 GTO (later reissued by Revell AG).

Very nice build, Rich, of an ugly racecar (at least for my taste) - though the new Le Mans cars may be much more efficient aerodynamically and mecanically than earlier ones, they're missing the elegant lines and look bulky (the same goes by the way, for the actual F 1 racers)

ABSOLUTELY - my favorite racecar among these is the 1971 Martini 917 K

Wow, Rich - assembling this kit must be almost as hard as driving the original.

Well done, Gary - all the styrene kits that have been done seem to be of the shortnose type (the 1956 and 57 winners). Maybe I will turn one of my XKSS kits into a D-Type.

Groovy van with typical 70's custom touches - very nice!

PM sent, Gary - they belong to the same owner/founder (Paul Günther Lang). I have the 300 SLR Le Mans 1955, Mille Miglia 1955 and the Coupé which was intended to be raced in 1956 but became the private car of Rudolf Uhlenhaut, the racing engineer and developer, when MB pulled the plug.

Excellent models, Gary, of the Ferrari 1964 and 65 winners - as young schoolboys in Austria, we were all fans of Jochen Rindt, who later became Austria's first F1- world champion (tragically, after his death). I will redo one of my built 250 LMs and try to make a longnose. I have also been tempted several times in buying a 300 SL on ebay Germany, but either those CMC models were horribly expensive or prone to zinc pest (especially the Carrera Panamericana car) - so I kept holding back. Also a fantastic model is the - probably would have been 1955 winner - Mercedes 300 SLR by Minichamps (Fangio/Moss driving till the company withdrew the remaining works cars after the horror crash) with the famous air-brake.

2 old builts from the mid 80's (pictures taken in 2020,beforse selling them off): The notorious F-100/1956 (Revell kit) is from the 1983 "Street Demons" series and could not be built stock - I discarded the ugly 2-piece plastic wheels and replaced them with Monogram's 56 T-Bird units. The interior is also customized - this kit gave me hard times: fitment was very bad, especially in the windshield/firewall/hood and the interior footwell/floor area - horrible (noticeable gaps everywhere) ! Decals are from amt's Pete Wrecker, color is car laquer sprayed from the can: The other one is amt's famous 1953 F-100 kit: I wanted it to look like a typical (?) late 50's custom so I used as many of those ugly custom parts (which were included in the kit) as I could stand; auto laquer from the spray-can, whitewalls are brushed with Humbrol matt white enamel - trim Humbrol silver, bare metal foil for the rails in the bed - this was the final result:

Excellent model, Rich - I'm with you in keeping it simple: I neither have the nerve nor the patience for wiring and plumbing engines and the like.

Thank you all fellows; in my opinion, Group C racers were the last real good-looking sportsracers with very few exceptions, f.ex. the 2003 Le Mans winning Bentley Speed 8

Thank you all for your nice comments guys - I really appreciate this.

Thanks, Bill - I always seem to have problems with attaching those tire transfers. That is why I switched to conventional decals.

Absolutely - I would take any of these for my own collection!

Great models, Gary - unbelievable the 1974 Matra (spliced together from 2 smaller scale kits!)

Very nice build - you certainly did NOT pick an easy one for your first build (I remember several troubles back in the early 80's when I built mine)

Here are two more winners: 1984 Porsche 956 (Tamiya 1/24) of Pescarolo/Ludwig/Johansson (Team Joest) and finally (after Matra 1972-74) again a French win with 2 French drivers in France: 1978 Renault Alpine A 442 (Tamiya 1/24), driven by Didier Pironi/Jean-Pierre Jaussaud: Here side by side with the 2nd place Porsche 936-78: I have further winners (1963-1965-1967-1968-1969-1970-1971 and 1982) in my stash, but still unbuilt ...

Excellent your 1963 winning 250 P, Gary - and of course GT40 # 1075, the first double winner (1968 and 1969) - my alltime favorite sports racer (I have these 3 in my stash - albeit still unbuilt)!

Very nice, Gerald - it was driven by Jürgen Barth and Hurley Haywood, later in the race heavily supported by fJacky Ickx after his own car DNFed.

x 2! Phil, this looks much better than my Union/IMC Mk IV which was horrible.

Super collection, Larry - the Talbotl-Lago is a special rarity - never seen a model of it ! Could it possibly be built from Heller's single-seater (with cycle fenders, lights, spare wheel and 2 seats)?

Here are my 1966 Mk II's (both from Fujimi) - the black one needs a light restoration (the decals were not opaque at all, and the tire lettering is wrong): and here is the 1967 winner (Dan Gurney with "rookie" A.J. Foyt) - 1/25 Union kit (= IMC reissue from the 80's) - the kit has full detail, but has a lot of issues (it was already designed in the 60's) - the opening front and rear panels don't fit at all - I sold this one off (have a nice 1/24 resin kit from Le Mans miniatures in my stash):

Very cool model in a rather realistic looking setting, Gary - Especially the picture where the car is going to leave the pit area heading for the track again.

Very nice pictures of Ford's winners circle (1966, 1967, 1968/69), Rex !