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Very impressive collection, Tom - the Peugeot 905 seems to be the heavily reworked Heller Kit which has been reissued by Airfix and Gunze-Sangyo. Am I right?

You can't have enough (old) Minis: beside 9 Tamiya, 2 Fujimi and 2 Revell kits (rally, racing, Morris, Austin) I have another die-cast in 1/24: Quattroruote/Leo Models 1972 Innocenti Mini Cooper Mk 3 1300 (license built in Italy) - pics are from 2011 (everything opens here) the green one has been sold off:

Received today from France: 1965 Austin Cooper S (1/24, Hachette):

Here are two more Le Mans winners - both from Le Mans miniatures - not built by myself, but factory-built. An online shop had these on sale for a reasonable price (about half the price of the resin kit), so I went for it: The 1972 winning Matra MS 670, driven by Henri Pescarolo/Graham Hill: and 20 years later (1992). the Peugeot 905 Evo 1 Bis, driven by Yannick Dalmas/Derek Warwick/Mark Blundell: I could never have built these two so well .

Thanks Dave, Larry and Carl !

Thank you, David.

Thank you guys for making nice comments on these ugly pickups.

Great looking transtar, Ken!

Fantastic model, Yuri - excellent build -color looks almost like RAL 6011 resedagrün - would also very well suit an European 50's truck. Very delicate details are the mirror brackets - they bring the model to a new level.

You have shown us a lot of outstanding models, Gary - wish I could contribute more (have 2 more LeMans winners, but not built by myself, and some yet unbuilts in my stash) - the 1949 Barchetta is also excellent.

Carving from wood - this is real modeling, Gary - what i have done is just assembling factory-made parts.

Looks perfect - very nice !

Excellent build of a complicated kit - I will be happy if I could manage it like you (I have 4 of these in my stash)

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