DonW

Thank Alan It's a joy to hold this model and feel the history, the irony is that I'm a Spitfire man and never had much time for Hurricanes!

Good look, not sure about the red. A bit Andy Warhol! Well photographed.

"...while the roll cage members leading from the main hoop into the trunk area enroute to terminating atop the subframe rails were redone given they frankly hung in space. It's frustrating to imagine that some aspects of the build have been appropriately seen to and then to discover it just isn't so..." Never a good thing. One of the drivers I was with in the BMW club races rolled his car and found to his and the car's cost that the main feet of the roll cage had been spot welded at an angle between the sill and the floor pan on each side. So they just punched through the whole lot when the car landed on it's roof. The car was a write-off and he was taken away in an ambulance. These details matter, and you're doing a great job with a great car. Cheers, -Don.

Well I got a new elevator made from wood and attached it, painted it, sanded it and so on. Still not perfect but the rest of the model, completely untouched since 1940/41 isn't either. I don't have the tools or skill to mend the prop, the whole lot would need redoing including the spinner and I'll leave the original as it is. Half close your eyes and imagine it spinning...

I'm sorry to hear that, Ken. I was looking forward to seeing more of this model, in my own curmudgeonly way. And you're right, in those days wealthy customers could have whatever style they could afford and thankfully many did just that! Cheers, -Don.

Good to know the answer. Rear engined, front wheel drive and those looks! What's not to like?

I thought that might be the answer! Thanks, Håkan. Glad I got rid of 2 of them! Sorry the pictures came out so big. I made this years ago and I still love it.

It is not turbocharged. If it was, as Håkan says, it would have one or more turbochargers attached to it. It just doesn't.

OK it's not a model as we know it, Jim. I promise to post pictures of my model one, it only has 8 carbs and it has tread on the back tyres for those damp Transylvanian nights. I never got why you'd put ten carburettors on a V8.

Thought I was onto something there but sadly not!

Excellent craftsmanship but I don't get the concept. A racer doesn't want all that wood and it would be a terrible touring car. with no hood or sidescreens. Maybe in Nice on the Mediterranean, parked next to this...

Reminds me of an Austrian guy in the 1920s and '30s... He sadly got a bit further before he was stopped.

Lovely model, well done.

No, thanks...

I saw the numbers: 9.96, 132.67? I put the decimals in myself optimistically... My kind of car!

Well said. Either word is offensive but the one with one syllable is easier to say!

Yeah I hope the owner does something with this thing, There's a fine line between looking fast and going fast.

These seem to be out of print (!), but I still have my originals from the seventies... Magazine are are so much better then anything on the hyperweb... Don't disappear when the WiFi goes south and aren't carpet-bombed with adverts. Trouble is the great writers are mostly gone now like Patrick Bedard from Car and Driver (that was a great American magazine that I loved) and of course Bill Boddy and Denis Jenkinson from Motor Sport. There's still Classic and Sportscar that I look forward to every month. I don't really look at the rodding and custom or bike magazines unless I'm down at my local BMW mechanic's shop, he has a few laying around. I used to buy Hot Rod and also our very own Custom Car magazine. Flared trousers and V6 Ford powered Vauxhall Crestas. And jacked up Ford Crapis: I sold several hundred sequential copies of Motor Sport, Classic Cars / Thoroughbred and Sportscar and various Bentley. Lagonda and Vintage and Sports Car magazine to a collector recently having thoroughly enjoyed them (they were passed on to me from my Dad) But against all that, this forum is a great outlet for me and it always gets my interest in some way.

Oh yes I well remember the disappointment when I opened the box for my Packard, how basic the detail was - and it had a very distinctive and not entirely pleasant smell. Wish I still had it though..

To quote Shakespeare: 'What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet: So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd, Retain that dear perfection which he owes'...

This is getting interesting - here's a picture I came across that I'd not seen before.

They're waiting for help because they're parked on the highway and they can't work out how to get in the car. I do love the artwork though.

They had one in an episode of Top Gear. It had trouble getting out of a hotel car park in some European city on account of it being so low and wide. Apart from that, I agree, it is the ideal shopping car.