Junkman

The rally cars are Peugeots and 1/43 scale.

If Airfix could at least reissue the 1/24 car kits it actually made! As dismal as that is, it would still be better than nothing. Why Airfix never expanded the series is beyond me. They toyed with a Vanden Plas 4 Litre R and commissioned Roy Cross to do some artwork, but then stopped the project. The really shocking thing about the Transit is that it required the Italians to come up with it. That and the Rally MKII Escort belonging on a trailer behind it. Frog seriously considered to make 1/24 scale car kits. A Landcrab, a Merc 220SE fintail, and a caravan were already announced, then cancelled. I guess it's because the English are allergic to money.

Not making it 1/24 will cost them a lot of sales.

As seen at the Nürnberg fair: Shan't we begin with wild speculations as to what is included in the kit?

Like so?

This is a roadster: And this:

Here are a few more.

This is a photo of the model on the Pocher stand at the Nürnberg fair.

Looks like the Aquarius is now painted:

The Hetfield cars were built by Rick Dore. For further info and my opinion, see my avatar. Furthermore, although riding on a modified 1934 Packard frame found in a junkyard, the Aquarius is not trying to emulate a Packard, but a Figoni & Falaschi bodied 1938 Delahaye. Is it entered again this year? It was already entered last year.

Whom do you have in mind? Tapani and his collection of dropouts?

This is going to be horrendously complicated, I know, but I'd love to convert the Transit into this: Then tow the Belkits Escort with it on an Aoshima Brian James trailer.

You decide:

The only other pics published are these:

That is correct. The curtain is never lifted for normal mortals. A rather strange business practice.

Out of the 300+ cars I've owned hitherto, only five managed to make me a repeat offender/serial killer/keeper. - 1957 - 63 Imperials - because I collected them for a while. Obviously I have since moved on. Looking over a '61 the other day, it left me oddly cold. - 1978 - 85 Ford (of Germany) Granada MKII 2.8i Ghia - because they are wonderfully plush waftbarges and used to be tremendously cheap wheels. I had 14 (fourteen) of them. - 1986 - present (yes, they are still being built in some parts of the World) Peugeot 405 - see Granada MKII, but with a more contemporary fuel consumption. I'm on my 5th now. - 1969 - 75 Rover 3500 - always wanted one, strangely took me until age 45 to buy one. First one was a manual, didn't bond, so replaced it with an auto, which I still have. - 1978 Chevrolet Caprice Classic 350/350 - bought 1992 as cheap wheels with 180k miles on it as a stop gap car to do a travelling occupation requiring to drive 50k miles per year. Sold seven years later with 380k MORE miles on it and regret it ever since. This is the car I've owned longest, until April this year, when the Rover will take over that honour. Other than these, I love variety. I usually go through 5 - 10 cars per year.

The shape of the windshield is completely wrong. I hope it gets corrected on the production model.

Note Gendarme de St Tropez backdrops in box art. PMSL

So far I'm the only one who received a damaged example. And the damage is not due to sloppy packaging.

Estafette also allows for some interesting conversions.

Can we have that Bimmer next, please?

I bloody well hope so!