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Well at least it is all one color now in primer gray. Now on to two colors, white and dark blue.

1966

Great choice of a super Lola. Watched them race at Mid Ohio course with my Kodak Instamatic. . Will be watching closely.

Slowly making progress with the pond and scrapping. Still lots to go before I can prime and paint.

I was not happy with the paint, so I taped off the front bonnet and tried to fix some spots that need sanding.  Then I tried to paint the white parts of the body and that's where I Imade a big mistake. The white was not covering the places I was trying to fix either with air brush or can and ended up filling up the panel lines with the heavy coats of paint. Should have used primer before the white. So back into the purple pond again.

Oh yes! Very well done conversion. I had not seen this Lancia model before, is it fairly new?

Really nice photos of a really nice model. Wish BBurago would continue this series.

Thanks for the pictures Rex. Still undecided about what I am going to do with this model.

As I was going to get dog food it dawned on me that I had picked up an IMC GTP J Car during my absence from this build. When I got home I checked it out and low and behold the kit has a different shape from the Strombecker. The main difference is in the shape of sides of the tail. I now believe the Strombecker is J2, and the IMC is J1, the Ken Miles car.

I has been 4 years, and I have been debating whether or not to try and complete this J Car test chassis. The body is pretty rough as it was sectioned and I did not have a correct MK 7 chassis for it. But with the GT40 collection almost done I decided to go ahead and finish it flaws and all. I have struggled with paint on the bonnet and did not have any color photos to decide between flat black or dark blue. There is a 1/43 Spark model and they chose to paint it dark blue. So now what do I do? Only post B/W photos

Ford GT40 Spyder Family Front Mustang I Concept Car – 1962- Set styling clues and development team for GT40 - Automodello diecast Left to Right Tamiya Slot Car – similar to spyder GT111 GT111 1965 #194 – F.A.V Targa Florio Mini Exotic resin body on Fujimi/Revell chassis GT109 1965 #15- Ford France Le Mans – narrowed Monogram slot car body GT X-1 1965 #71 - Mclaren light weight aluminum GT40 chassis for CanAm racing – Mini Exotics resin transkit GT109 1966 #1 - Shelby American conversion of X-1 to GT40 MKII and winner of Sebring - Mini Exotics transkit on Fujimi/Revell chassis

Very impressive build. I was not familiar with this livery but you nailed it.

Here you go Dave:

Ford GT40 Spyder GT111 - The strange tale. In 1965 GT111 was an F.A.V entry in the Targa Florio in Scilly. The drivers were Bob Bondurant and Sir John Whitmore. The competition was mostly from Ferrari for the overall win. During the race a wheel knock off nut came off. Fortunately, a spectator was gracious enough to find it and give it back. But then GT111 hit a road marker and damaged the car beyond repair and had to retire. The car was returned to F.A.V . and stripped of useable parts and left to rust outdoors. Finally, a decision was made to cut the chassis in half and ship it off to the scrap dealer. Mysteriously, the two halves of the chassis never made it to the scrap pile and was hidden in storage for decades. Eventually the remains were found and verified by Ronnie Spain and sent to Gelscoe for restoration plus the construction of a clone. The kit for this model is a 1/24 scale Mini Exotics resin body and a Tamiya//Revell GT40 chassis and interior. The paint is Tamiya TS60 Pearl Green. Life got in the way and it took several years to finish the build. What is next? The Evolution of the Ford GT 40 in Scale.

Body is on chassis and will go to Under Glass next.

I really like what you had done on your spyder.

Super nice build.

Well fewer parts left to attach. The challenge will be attaching the body then adding the window surround.

Great story. Thanks for sharing .

Just received my 156 F1 in the mail and quite frankly I am moved. I was a fan of Phil Hill and the model and pamphlet are very well done. Thank you Helmut for letting us know about them.

Many thanks for sharing.

Wow!

Back on the bench again and plan to finish up the GT40 spyder this week. This will be the last addition to my GT40 collection. O Oops, better fix the toe in.

In 1962 Chevrolet was preparing for the introduction of the new Sting Ray in the 1963 model year and wanted to draw attention with a racing version. Zora Duntov and his team designed and built 5 racing chassis with Sting Ray style body work. Unfortunately for Zora the American Automobile Manufacturers Association, including GM, banned manufactures from racing in 1963. Chevrolet went ahead with finishing their racers but made arrangements with trusted Corvette racers including Gulf Oil's vice president for research Grady Davis. The racers were named Grand Sports and the first race for chassis 004 was April 1963 at Maryland's Marlboro Raceway. This model is based upon 1/25 scale resin body transkit by Cheesecast, Historic Racing Miniature also did one, which could be used on either an MPC or AMT chassis. These transkits were released before Accurate Miniatures released a full kit in 1/24 scale of the 1964 Grand Sport version. This build used an MPC 1964 kit and joins my other Grand Sport Corvettes. There is a WIP post.

Well done indeed.