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Helmut, nice photos! Thanks for sharing. caapa, "Lungo" refers to long wheelbase. There were also "Corto" short wheelbase versions of the 8C 2900B's.

Beautiful work, Jon!! ? The Revell wheels and tires made a huge difference in the appearance. I love the carb and brake linkage and the subtle weathering on the grille and underneath. Many thoughtful details that make for a very convincing replica. The working features are top notch. The details inside the trunk....Great job!!

I've never seen this one before. Nice!! Thanks for posting. -TIM-

Great job, Bruce! I've picked up a couple of these recently. I notice you got the wheels and tires fitting together nicely. Some examples I've seen, even one version of the box art, has the wheels popping out from the tires and really detracting from the looks. Yours look just right! ? What brand/color paint did you use on the interior?

Crossfire, very nice! Well done. Are those AMT '41 Plymouth wheels? They're a natural.

Helmut, I love what you did with this Ferrari! Do you know off hand, the wheels that you used, are they the same as the ones Fujimi markets individually as 17" wheels? Looks like there are three different varieties; series no. 13, 14, and 101.

You nailed it, Phil! That is BEAUTIFUL ?

Very nice, Helmut. Clean work, great photography. Thanks for sharing!

Ok, thanks Gary. I'll hit him up.

Gary, unfortunately I'm late to the party for these cool Ferrari's. I bout a California Spyder today, and I've been going crazy trying to find the 250 GT Tour de France. Love that one!! Where did you get yours?

No problem, Helmut! No offense taken whatsoever. Thank you Gary, hope you're feeling better soon! Keyser, thanks again for good conversation! Glad you guys enjoyed it. On to the next one (hint, Ferrari + Fernando Pinto.....Gotta keep the artist in business)

I checked out Rangerink just now. Cool stuff! Thanks for the tip!

It really looks great! Thank you very much.

Love the carpet treatment. I haven't had much luck sourcing embossing powders. Where did you get yours?

Terry, thanks! You made me feel much better about my unfinished projects. ?

Very Nice!!

Helmut, I really wish you hadn't said that.......because I was thinking the same things while comparing the photos as I posted them. ? The replacement wheels and tires are actually smaller than the originals from CMC. I experimented with some that were smaller still, but they didn't look quite right in the wheel openings. Anyway, I agree, the proportions are slightly off. There's a 1/18 scale version of this car that looks better. The biggest difference between the two seems to be the length of the cockpit, which is proportionally longer on the 1/18 version. Now, the 1/24 car looks great on the display shelf, don't get me wrong. Parked next to a Franklin Mint SSK the wheels and tires seem about right. The wheelbases of these two 1/24 cars are different though, and they should match, as SSK's. The CMC car is shorter. Proportionally, the body length vs. height is a bit off. I think if it were stretched in a couple areas it would look better. Not gonna do that though! ?

Great commentary, thanks! I guess Tom was interviewed at his apartment in San Francisco just a month before he passed away back in June, 2013. From that article: Our lunch is at Perkin's' newly acquired apartment in downtown San Francisco. As we take a scenic route through the pretty architecture of Pacific Heights and Nob Hill, he discusses his lifelong attraction to owning classic and performance cars. "At the height of my collection I had about 45 classic cars, each a gem," he reports. The most memorable? "My Bugatti Atlantic, built for a Mr Pope in 1935; then there was the 'Maharajah' Duesenberg Type SJ, and the streamlined Mercedes-Benz Count Trossi SSK dating from 1930, all cars of world renown." "You know," he continues, "while I owned them I really loved them, but when I sensed the bottom was about to fall out of the market, I sold them all for vast sums of money. It was a good decision, as my prediction came true. Today, I own just one classic, a 1955 'gull wing' Mercedes 300SL in perfect concours condition. I now have this Lambo and a Ferrari 599 GTO, both new cars. I just love to drive them."

Thank you, Man! ? You're welcome, and thank you Dave! ? Thank you, kind Sir! ?

I agree completely! It is very similar to the Karmann Ghia; the greenhouse, the fenders, emphasized horizontal line at the rockers, the triangular hood. It makes you wonder how nice a Ghia might look with some Borrani chrome wires. Not really possible with wide five Volkswagen drums, but if things were different......

Hello Helmut. Thank you so much! I thought you might like this one, and I'm not at all surprised that you have several of them. This was a great design from Alfa Romeo. ?

Ralph Lauren has owned this particular car for about 40 years now. CMC created a very nice 1/24 scale model of the car, depicting what it looks like today. Over the course of it's history dating back to 1930, the car has appeared differently during different era's. As an example, the wheels have been painted red at one time, covered with polished aluminum full wheel discs at another, and featured chrome wires for a long time before the current look of black painted wheels. Personally, with rare exceptions, I pretty much hate black painted wheels. So, naturally, I gravitate towards chrome wires much more readily. My goal for this model was to bring the looks more in line with how the car was featured in Road and Track, September 1992. To do that, I replaced the wheels and tires, lowered the front end, and painted the brake drums to represent polished copper. From the CMC factory the model featured red painted drums, almost pink. No bueno! The wheels I came up with are from an unlikely source. They're actually SpecCast Model A Ford wheels, or at least that's what they intended. I modified them to shorten the center hub cap as much as possible, then add the Mercedes knockoffs in the center. The tires are from a Danbury Mint Hispano Suiza. I made a front license plate to match the one on the car when in Road and Track. That's about it. Enjoy!