DonW

It is! The Dh-88. They re-used the name later for a very different aeroplane.

A Gullwing with an XKE rear end would be a great car. As for engines - we never liked racing after the Jags had been on the track because they dropped oil everywhere...

Fascinating!

I built it when I was a teenager, the doors did open and close about twice then I left them shut. I remember scraping the chrome and the grill tilted fine - but the support for the body was tooo flimsy! Painted the centre of the grill black, didn't like the orange crate decal much. But a real favourite, along with the Beatnik Bandit, sadly both long gone from my collection.

Not dis chord, dat chord...

Are you sure you're not thinking of the Norwegian Blue, Bill?

Cute little bus!

I reckon that's a flaw in the box art, not the model!

Well done Bill I love it when good old fashioned knowledge beats searching with Google!

Enviable panel gaps...

I've never seen an unattractive car from Innocenti. They seem to have a distinctive house style.

Who cares about the text, it's a free world! What a fantastic model of an amazing car, 143 mph in 1928, I wonder how quickly it got there?

More rally than race car, but no cage so not a terribly serious one! Pretty though.

There's nothing you can do that can't be done. John's Phantom V had a record player in it, as you may know. IT'S EASY!!!!

Well Spits used to go semi-sonic in a dive, my dad told me his experience of that. Gravity assisted, and a few prop planes could do the same. But yes, Respect! I

Brilliant choice. The 'lucky' owner needs to sort his bumper alignment out!

They don't make 'em like that any more....

Very educational!

With a 6 cylinder engine, a definite cut above your MG TAs and TCs and Singer Le Mans! Good choice, Michael.

When I was in my teens I had a tiny model aeroplane engine that was intended to power a balsa 'plane, It had a little triangular fuel tank and I bolted the engine to a small piece of plywood, with prop attached, and connected up the fuel line. I span the prop without thinking it through and ended up with an angry little power unit that was trying to wrench its plywood base out of my hand. I tried to hang on till the fuel ran out but got bitten badly down my thumb by the prop.... More power to these people!

Wouldn't you love to have one in the drive, just for running around in!

I just got a new contract where I need to be in the office all day so no time to devote to this one. The hard ones are as much if not more fun than the easy ones, I reckon. Cheers, -Don.

Yeah - I hope my reply wasn't too serious. I know Welsh is a different language altogether, also pretty common the further west you go in Wales. - where the road signs go from English at the top, Welsh below to Welsh at the top. I did try to learn Welsh when I first moved here but was completely defeated by the huge regional variations and the complexity of it. 'Welsh English' is simply the unique way English is used by some Welsh people, and we're the richer for it.

Well Microsoft have English (U.K.) or English (U.S.), this works for me. And sometimes the American pronunciation is more logical ('Vase' rhymes with 'Base' in the US, whereas it rhymes with 'Bars' over here, which makes no sense. Then you have Welsh English - 'I'll be there now in a minute', 'Who's coat is that jacket?' And then there's Robbie Burns with an old Scottish variation: Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie,O, what a pannic's in thy breastie!Thou need na start awa sae hasty,Wi' bickering brattle!I wad be laith to rin an' chase thee,Wi' murd'ring pattle! Which means: Little, sly, cowering, timid beast,Oh, what a panic is in your heart!You need not start away so hastyWith bickering prattle!I would be loath to run and chase you,With murdering paddle!

I respect their skills (Foose and Coddington that is) but don't like either's cars much, they both seem to prefer wheels that are too large in diameter for my taste and their designs are neither wild enough to fire my imagination or functional enough to appeal to me. Thankfully to the best of my knowledge neither designer has yet picked on a BMW. I do like Marmite by the way. But that's way off topic! Each to their own.