DonW

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.

Reminds me of the Westland Lysander, though that wasn't a parasol wing design. Thanks for sharing, Adam.

I've always wondered why they are called Buffalo wings (or legs in this case). So I finally did some research and now I know! Hope you enjoyed yours, Tom.

Fabulous model, love the colour. And pretty topical this week!?

Please please please NOT Chitty! Wrong period and - well, just Wrong, Period! Just my opinion? This is a 'proper' boat-tail Blower, by Gurney Nutting coachbuilders: I think a wood finish boat-tail would look a little bit out of character for the car but it might be interesting... Good luck with whatever you decide.

Nice! Always love the Animals. Eric's my older sisters favourite singer even now.

That's encouraging news for us across the Pond. Thanks Bill.

I love this movie, your model is looking great - the stance you've mocked up looks about right.

Well executed. Beautiful car, it reminds me of Ton Tjaarda's Chevy Corvette based Rondine:

I'm looking forward to it!

Hi Ken Well I'm stumped! 'It's very rare and was sold for £132,000 (hint there is a lot of wood involved ' All the blowers are rare, and if you could get one for that sort of money you'd be laughing. £,1320,000 is closer. The only one that springs to mind with the exhaust re-routed is the Birkin Outer Circuit car but there's not a lot of wood in that... Please enlighten us! Cheers, -Don.

Thanks Michael. I'm glad to find out what this is, I have seen it before but could't remember what it was!

That's what makes this forum great, all the different cultures and phrases. Apart from the models of course!

Hi Alexandr I can't see any photos, just a load of .jpg links. I'm looking forward to seeing this because the '69 Corvette you posted looked great! Cheers, -Don.

Looks like it breathes pretty well, Ray! What does it run?

? It's a fair cop!

Nicely done. Despite it looking the part, especially with that big cannon slung underneath, I knew this type of plane had not been a great success operationally and you model inspired me to look on Wikipedia - now I begin to understand why: The Hs 129 was designed around a single large "bathtub" of steel sheeting that made up the entire nose area of the plane, completely enclosing the pilot up to head level. Even the canopy was steel, with only tiny windows on the side to see out of and two angled blocks of glass for the windscreen. In order to improve the armor's ability to deflect bullets, the fuselage sides were angled in forming a triangular shape, resulting in almost no room to move at shoulder level. There was so little room in the cockpit that the instrument panel ended up under the nose below the windscreen where it was almost invisible; some of the engine instruments were moved outside onto the engine nacelles' inboard-facing surfaces and the gunsight was mounted outside on the nose. Henschel's plane came in 12 percent overweight with the engines 8 percent underpowered, and understandably, it flew poorly. The controls proved to be almost inoperable as speed increased, and in testing, the V2 prototype flew into the ground from a short dive on 5 January 1940[1] because the stick forces were too high for the pilot to pull out. The Focke-Wulf design proved to be no better. Both planes were underpowered with their air-cooled, inverted-V12 Argus As 410 engines, and very difficult to fly. What's not to like, for a pilot?! The screen was 75 mm (2.95 in) thick armoured glass!.

I hope this happens, we should be out of this mess by then! Thanks Snake and Steve!

The 5OOK never had anything but a 5 litre straight eight engine, hence the name - the 540K had a 5.4 litre engine. So where the 4 cyl. engine that had been in the car came from who knows? Great project Cheers, -Don.

Thanks Johnny I'll look on kijiji, but it's the postage that's the dealbreaker, especially at the moment. Cheers, -Don.

Nice!