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RINGO TOYS CORP FERRARI KIT KIT C542: PRODUCED BY RINGO CIRCA 1963 - BASED UPON MOLDS PURCHASED FROM IDEAL TOYS. SCALE: ABOUT 1/21 - ITS ACTUALLY: SCALE FLUID WHICH FERRARI ?? GOOD QUESTION - APPEARS TO BE BASED UPON THE BARCHETTA - PER AN EXCELLENT ONLINE ARTICLE IN VELOCETODAY. KIT IS COMPLETE AND, UM, UNSPOILED. OFFERED ON EBAY FOR UP TO 249.00 !! GIVE ME A BREAK - IT’S A TOY. A RARE TOY, BUT... PLEASE OFFER ME A TRADE - OTHERWISE I'VE PROMISED THE FINANCE DIRECTOR THAT I'LL SELL THIS SUCKER AT THE POMPANO BEACH IPMS SHOW END OF AUGUST ...

Out the door … ill post additional info in a followig post ….

Here’s a shot from the excellent Tipler book on the marque …. OK. What’s wrong with this picture ??? …

And thanks to lo temp solder - its now one peice again -

Hand saw and a great big shop file ….

Seat time - the Auto-Kits 25 white metal seat has the correct shape but is a bit too wide for my monocoque - so its gone to surgery …

Kodak Pit pix from Mid-Ohio fr ??? 1968 ??? Gramps strikes again …

The good news is that there is a wonderful 24th (yes - 24th) scale kit of this historic GP car by Hasegawa - a bit pricey but less than a hundred bucks …

For instance on the 25 - you need to bond exhaust pipe ends and then bend them in and around the cylinder heads …. This is doable with lo temp solder wire and hi temp silver solder - away we go ….

How about lo temp soldering two pieces of solder together ? Hell’s bells - it worked …

I decided to see whether i can solder silver solder - that has a hi temp melting point - to something - in this case - a random peice of white metal - using lo temp solder …. It worked …

Exhaust pipes are what keep me up at nights - making them out of metal presents this problem - annealing brass or nickel softens the material - but repeated bending and shaping causes the metal to “work harden” - and you can use solder to make a pipe - but solder doesn’t like glue - any glue - so …

P51 Mustang - but my phone couldn’t turn up a pic …

Did he own a P40 ?

Thanks for this post - simply one of the nicest looking IMSAs - and Bob Tullius was one of our great IMSA privateers - seem to recall that he had some spectacular vintage fighter planes - a P 30 - what ?

Flight 19 IPMS Modelfest 25 Sat Aug 23 2025 Larkin Comm Ctr - Pompano Beach Beach Fl Be there - or be squared ...

Trade-off - the parts have a nice steel appearance - but they aren’t as strong as brass or nickel - but i won’t / shouldn’t need any strength - the pedals are mounted to the “bridge” above the foot box and suspended …

While i’m on this lo temp soldering kick - i’ve made the pedals by converting wh metal rod end parts and wh metal scrap fr the kit - - -

Charlie - text me if you need the show info ... how would you machine the shift gate ? would you try to mill the gate pattern ? or cut vertical slots with a narrow dia. slitting saw on two nickel posts and then solder the two facing nickel strips together ?? both are a pain - which would be less of a pain ? in MY scale - you would need to use a .10 mill - how many would you break ? - the .010s are $$$

Dont rush that Bugatti - but that local IPMS show in Pompano is in 2 weeks -

Some more white metal parts from my Gurney Eagle project - Lotus used Armstrong shocks - as did a number of F1 teams …

And here’s the collar for the steering wheel …. .125 Evergreen rod ….

Gracias JD - here’s my first shot at the shift gate - made from Evergreen strip with slots cut with an .08 saw blade - its a maybe …

But the shifter on Clark’s 25 in ‘62 was in fact gated - so i’ll rummage around my photo-etch stash to see if i got something - or maybe grab some nickel silver strip and make it …

Gracias TS - here’s another example - the restored 25s do not have gated gear shift housings -