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    It does if you have the Tamiya Super seven kit …
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    Does this brake disc look familiar ??
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    The brown material is Renshape - handy for reshaping the tip of the uprights - Evergreen strip to make a thicker part and add the flange that holds the disc brakes - the flange has flaps left and right because the component was made to be usable left or right …
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    The rear susp uprights fr the kit need some changes …
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    Beaulieu will - I think - never part with R3 .. Stitch up - careful - I've seen some 3D prints of Cosworth engines that are out of scale check everything to the factory drawings in the Oliver Lotus 49 bible ...
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    R3 and R2 are both 49A s - R2 was converted to B Spec in '69 - and then converted back to it's 1967 spec by it's current owner...
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    this is R3 - the most untouched of the survivors - I would like to see R3 get a mechanical restoration so that it could at least be demo - ed ...
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    the lighting at the Beaulieu Nat Auto Museum was never adequate for indoor film photography ... these shots of the Hill 49 were taken fifteen years before your visit ...
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    speaking of Beaulieu ...
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    We interrupt this build thread to bring you …. … another Lotus …
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    Sorry couldn’t resist … image modified using the Becassa phone app …
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    Opened this on my phone - absolutely thought the first posted shot was the real thing - with the photo setting in some lonely estate …. Super - and i know that this thing didn’t just fall together … and yes - vintage alfas are not always dark red …
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    Nice - what scale ? 3D is coming for all of us …
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    Could there be another Merit kit bash in my future ??
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    Gracias Misha - and yes i did -
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    Brakes pedal with brake fluid plunger hardware …
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    Pedals - clutch and brake pedals had cast non-skid surfaces - made these with some solder melted over some fine brass screen -
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    Since this was a curbside kit - the chassis plate extends forward past the first bulkhead to the location of the radiator - but as with most other open wheelers with forward radiators - this space should be open - i’ll make an oil tank and improve upon the kit radiator - therefore the surgery you see in these pix …
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    I found the reverse case bolt - it bounded away and ended up under my work bench - you must have sneezed …
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