DonW

Just maybe this is the best one yet, some bits look so real and some look like they need a black wash. I think the door got bent and the wheels on a real Bizzarini look just like that so I'll stick with real.

Thunderbirds are go

The plug wires would melt all over everything, but can't not like the DoH Charger!

You can never know with cats. Most of ours like chilling out in boxes or the laundry basket but we had one that always slept on the banister rail at the top of our stairwell with a 15 foot drop beneath him on one side. He never fell off, that we know of. He'd never have told us if he had - they are very proud. I like to keep old model boxes 'cos they evoke the excitement of coming home and opening them for the first time. My son likes to keep old trainer boxes which to me makes no sense at all. But I never wore trainers.

Yes sorry about your accident Ronald, hope you recover soon. What scale is the Lambo? Cheers, -Don.

I'll say Real. Looks like someones been busy melding a Bizzarini, Ferraro 250LM, AH Sprite and Lamborghine Muira - what is it?!

So it's Italian! Not known for poor carrosserie but when they get it wrong, they take no prisoners - anyone remember this one?:

Thinking on, if you want to use the Tamiya kit to replicate a standard non-Cooper car from '65 to '68, you'll certainly need to lose the wheel arch 'eyebrow' flares and get some narrower steel wheels. Later Minis, in the Seventies, all ended up with the flares, like most people at the time! -Don.

Hi Matt's pretty much spot on, although the Coopers were road cars too. They mostly came with steel wheels and chrome hubcaps like the standard version, 3.5" wide x 10" diameter! Minilites were an (expensive) option. The only things that told the Cooper cars apart were the grilles, the badges and two tone paintwork, and some early Coopers had two-tone interiors, while the later ones of the period had black. Hope this helps, -Don.

Thanks - I always thought the air went in the scoop like the TransAm shaker scoop or some tunnel ram scoops - even though they face backwards, they pick up the slow moving high pressure air between the scoop and the windscreen. :

It's a beautiful build. One question - why does it have a scoop and then two cold air feeds from the front of the car? Where does the air from the scoop go? Sorry that's two questions! I wish I could build to that standard tho.

How about 'Things are never as good or as bad as they first appear'. or 'Everything happens for the best' (my dad's maxim).

At least you didn't drive it into a dumper like Kowalski did in his '70! I always loved those Challengers, how long did you keep yours?

I had a BMW 525i from '82, took a coil out of the front springs, it had a great stance on 7 inch alloys and handled well, better with the kids in the back! I still own a 2002 turbo lowered for racing that I once got stuck in a motorway service station because the speed humps were too tall for it. You could dump the clutch in that car with the steering cocked a little and it would turn in its own length, I did that once in a traffic jam in South London. I love the look of jacked up cars, especially gassers, but not too much use around the twisty bits here in the UK!

Hi Don, I just joined up myself. Welcome abouard! -Don.

Hi All. My name's Don and I'm delighted that I finally got around to signing up to this most excellent forum. I used to be an avid follower of Brian's sadly defunct site but just as happy with this one, I don't get time to build right now (house renovation, job, kids, 1:1 BMWs, cats) but have the Revell Good Guys 'T'. the Dukes' Charger and a couple of Spitfire models (the proper ones with 12 cylinders and one seat, not the earthbound Triumph variety) to do one day.... I have a few completed kits which I'll post one day, see previous list of excuses. On a slightly random note, I can't believe that no=one on the forum recognised the Ford Corsair that Harry posted a while back - my best friend at school had a red one, sadly not the V4 version. Bet there's not many left now. I think the front was very loosely based on the 64 Thunderbird. It didn't go round corners as well as my old 1953 RME Riley.