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Thanks donb.

Both kits bought for about £5 off the Bay and decorated in two ways. The kit is as a WRC car so built one as is and the other as a Hellaflush/JDM tuner!

Cheers Joe.

The decals were shot so I found some others..................and finished it last weekend!

Thanks guys. Yes not a bad job on an oldie!

Thanks David, yes being retired new kits are very expensive, so I buy a few 'already stared' from ebay each year and resurrect them. I still have about twenty kits left, bought before I retired so still have 'new' stock to build.

Bought as a glue bomb, body OK, rest, chassis, axles,engine, front screen, wheels/tyres all in box. Parts except body hand painted all over so no contact areas, so cleaned off paint, glue parts together, and rebuild.

Cheers Dann, but that's the last show rod on the shelves!

They are decals thanks Rider, mostly home printed.

Cheers Lloyd.

Thanks ChrisR.

Thanks Dave, yes when you think that this was produced in 1969 a year after we got married and I've just passed the great sevenO!

I bought this on ebay UK about 6 or so months ago. The date of the kit is 1969 so the decals (although I coated them in two layers of gloss clear) would not release from the paper backing except the footprints that I've put on the roof! I have found another sheet of decals called 'Flower Power', so used those.

Superb! Using so many other parts to build it was brilliant! We had so many of these on the streets when I was growing up in the late '50's and early '60's. We called them the Ford Anglia van as the car (Anglia) was very similar. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks GeeBee, a car I'd seen many times on the stages driven I think by Paddy Hopkirk.

Great build pauloe. It takes me back to my early days at the Silverstone Circuit just 5 miles from here, seeing these little cars buzzing round the track, especially in the Touring Car races which included the Ford Falcon and Lotus Cortina, when it was wet the Mini would beat both of those to the line every time! I see that you have a rear number plate with a 'D' suffix at the end which denotes the year of 1966.

Thanks Lloyd.

Cheers guys.

Cheers Chris.

Thanks guys, yeah the weirder the better!

Very nice GT40! We had a classis car meeting at Silverstone Circuit about 5 miles from here a few weeks back and a yellow GT40 like the one in your photo, went past here on the road going to the circuit. Yes a road registered 1960's version!

Very nice indeed, well done. We have the Prodrive factory about 20 miles from here, so have seen many on the road over the years from the first rally prototypes to the last of the factory rally cars camo'd on testing runs. The late Richard Burns didn't live far from here so saw him on his motorbike quite a few times.

The only thing I miss about the older cars, is that we could work on them ourselves rather than pay £95 per hour labour costs at the dealerships!