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great car to look at, well done model, but the real car had a number of issues notwithstanding it was a death trap. I know where there is a Miura with a blown motor that's been sitting for perhaps 20 years now. It was on the cover of 3 or 4 magazines long long story. The problem is there isn't a boring bar (at least of 10 years ago) in the country that could bore this block because the bellhousing is casted part of the block. In any event, the guy bought the car in California and drove it back almost all the way home before lossing a cooling hose. He thought he could make it to a service station and kept driving it and overheated it and it stopped running. It was eventually towed back to Wisconsin and sat in Chris's shop ever since. He paid $250,000 for the car, they peaked at $1,000,000.00, but not with a blow up motor. So he lost out. So the saga continues.

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He did a practice spin right before that under the safety car. Doesn't much matter, Renault is done in F1 after this season any way.

It a big piece of black masking tape, perhaps some kind of gaffers tape. I just used some evergreen plastic for the mouldings and the stitching seam and just working it on kind of like you would a big piece of BMF.

I make up dist kind of like Crazy Jim and use 30 gauge wrapping hook up wire. I press a alum. tube (don't know the size off hand) into a smaller tube with wire between the larger and smaller tubes, just like the common pre-wired dist come. It's quick easy and conviencing.

That is what is posted here as well. Also got that one correct.

You have a car fight.

89% B+ above average driver. I guess you are NOT supposed to flip big trucks the bird. Actually I knew the right answer, it was just more fun to flip the bird. Doh I forgot my hand signals. I too, have pet peeves about driving too. Sure are a lot of moron drivers out there. How did they pass their driving test even. I wonder.

Donno anyone personally that has built one. I have 1 each of one of the three in the series, like the first step you are to start cutting parts in half. Back to the box it's gone. I have the super detail sets for all of them and some real nice vacu formed windscreened from Oz. Some day...

whether you think you can or can't you are probably right.

Just depends on how deep you want to get in. I am sure it will look great finished. Mine look pretty good just sitting there in primer.

Mine was building up into a nice little kit, it does have a number of issues, and mine has been stalled @ about 75% completed. Issues. 1. First it out of shape to an original 250 but represents a car that had the rear smashed off and reconstructed so it's pretty accurate to the car it was modeled after, but not so accurate to an orginal 250. 2. The top of the door frames too rounded. Correction flaten the top of the frame and fill roof gap. 3. Missing fuel lines 4. Missing aux breather/oil filler. Correction scratch build 5. Missing radiator lines. Correction scratch build 6. Soft molding on parts. 7. Cam sprocket covers, cam seal details Cut cam sprocket covers off, add bolt details and came seal. Add #4 at this time. 8. Missing PCV vent hoses. 9. Battery in the wrong location. 10. Tapper out the carb stacks - the hole is too small. 11. Completely missing brake master and tanks. 12. Missing interior door panels. 13. Suspension - sits too high, and doesn't help with the M&S truck tires. You can rebuild by flipping the knuckles and making new springs. Rear, you need to reform the frame to make it sit flatter against the trunk floor. 14. Rim bead too thick file bead down will make the tires sit better and look over all better. 15. Head lamp bucket is non-existant. Scratch build. 16. The taip pipe tips are completely wrong. Helpful hints. 17. Glue and fill headlamp buckets in first. It will be hard to get together with the lower valence on but it's the only way to properly finish the body. 18. Wiper arms are blobs. Note drill mount pins for easier insallation of PE wiper at a later time. 19. Fresh air ducts, screens missing. 20. Gear shift lever boot missing. 21. Missing seam where roof is put on at the factory. that't just going off the top of my head, and not being in touch with the kit for several months. I am sure there more I forgot, and much more I am planning on doing. The dash set up, for example, is a disaster. Build diary link. http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.p...;hl=Ferrari+250 The Fujimi kit is much better.

I doubt they well ever go below $500 for a plastic wheel reissue, and $750 for a wire, and $1000 for a mint condition on. I have been looked for 3 years and never seen any for less unless they were damaged, started, or incomplete.

Yes, OOP, and there is been some disputes over reissuing them. One company owns the tools but another owns exclusive rights to Mercedes model kits. There is a mint one for $1400.00 now. I am not interested in a reissue with plastic wheels. They skimped on a bunch of brake and engine details, and those go for over $500 ++

Maybe it's timing. There are a bunch running right now and they are all around 75 + 11 to 25 P&H. Pocher are running down though $600s compaired to last Nov-Dec everyone I bid on closed at well over $1000.00. My holyest of grails still eludes me, a Wire wheel Pocher Mercedes. I passed one up in the 90s when I was going to college for $500, and I have bid on several. I am just not paying a grand for one.

It's cheaper just to get the Fujimi kit and the trans kit than it is to try and pick up a Union kit, which by time you're all said and done shipped they are $75 if you find a steal and closer to $100 average.

I picked on up. I haven't actually built it but it doesn't as horrible as it's been made out to be.

I have one, haven't built it. Yes, it's a curbside but there is a transkit for it.

I built mine for about $200

Go Schummi go. He was doing laps today in a customer spec car. Yesterday was spent on the sim to learn the steering wheel which has changed a lot since he was last in a F-1 car. so it looks like this is going down.

Yes, there seems to be a disagrement if it was the coach was a Town Car or a Limousine. If it was a Town car there is an original 1912 Renault Town Car that was supposedly built to the same specifciations as William Carter's car.

On top of all this Renault has been booted from there home GP for the wheel falling of Alonso's car last race. No cars, no practice, no qualifying, no race. There will be a riot for sure.

On top of all this Renault has been booted from there home GP for the wheel falling of Alonso's car last race. No cars, no practice, no qualifying, no race. There will be a riot for sure.

It makes a cetian logic but still mind blowing. All the experts were only giving him a 5% chance of jumping into the red car.

Probably not, it works out to about $70 per car or kit.