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Cheers Dann.

Thanks guys.

Yes a guy with a F1 exhaust making business near here in the UK had a road-going one for work. The team at British Leyland took the Buick V8 from the Rover SDI saloon car, cut two cylinders off to make a V6 and put it in the back! It was pretty successful as a rally car, doing both the national and World champs with the late Tony Pond driving it. As you say Group B was scrapped as the cars were super quick, some went into Rallycross , some still in National Club rallying and some onto the road with twin turbo's fitted! Pretty quick for a car a few feet longer than the Mini- Coopers and all fibre glass body and alloy chassis.

I bought one of the original kits in the day and a Ford GT kit as well. The Gordini soon had wide arches ,a Ford V8 in the back and the wheels as well from the GT kit!

Yes I always add a coat of clear gloss a couple of days after laying up decals. As we have a centrally heated home if I didn't do it they would start to peel off after about 6 months.

Even better with corrugated alloy fuselages, on various of their WW2 planes!

Well thanks guys. Kevin try something else stretch your imagination and skills build a plane. This was relatively easy as I normally build civilian Bi-planes, seaplanes but bi-planes. I had a great experience with my wife of fifty years just two years ago. We visited our son where he lives just outside Calgary did the stampede for two days, onto the Rocky Mountaineer train to Vancouver onto a ship to Alaska and few through/over the wilderness in a seaplane, WOW! Taking off and landing on water twice is just something else. I've done hot air ballooning, and two. two seat aircraft including a Tiger Moth Bi-plane built in 1948 the year I was born, various helicopters, and my wife and I into the Grand Canyon for lunch in a helicopter ! What a buzz!

Thanks Chris.

Two Christmas pressies from my wife, one came in the post yesterday... in 1/25 scale straight from Revell.de via emodels in the UK................. And today............................... As I already have a MotoGP figure I may Well paint/decal it in Valentino Rossi colours and leave off all the shooters!

Thanks afx. I'll keep them in mind.

Thanks Andre. No the dirt tyres although well treaded are narrower to cut through the muck on the muddy/gravel stages. The slicks are much wider for better grip on the tarmac.

Thanks Kevin, yes a nice well fitting and well made kit. Being in the UK and Italy not far off we see a lot of the Italeri kits and they are generally very good quality and well priced. This was about £25.

Just from the WIP section........... Decals from 1992 ESCI kit of the same car........ The car depicts a tarmac set up with lowered suspension and slick tyres (all in kit)............

Thanks Ray. No I hadn't seen one built, but I did a Google image search and found just a few.

All done! Super kit nice fit. Just fitted non-standard Dunlop tyre decals, tyre painting on competition cars/bikes started by the tyre companies years later....

Thanks guys. I had a long search for one here in the UK, and as you can I finally found one. There are quite a few here now but there are huge price differences between dealers.

Thanks Ron.

Thanks Richard, just put it on here.

It amazes me when the heads of these huge companies across the world get millions in salary and bonuses each year however badly the companies are run/perform/ go into the red, the bosses have to have their hands even deeper in the till! We've had a few here recently who've run major retail groups, they've not only given themselves huge salaries and bonuses when the companies are going under, but also stolen the workers pension funds as well. So once they go bust the ex-staff have nothing to live on after 30-40 years service. But nothing gets done because these crooks have the rich and famous in the government as friends who are also less than honest! To them we are just cannon fodder for their dishonesty!

Thanks Dann, but the TV series was American, so the car is left hand drive.

Well after a long day at the coal face I've finished it! The drivers door and the engine don't fit tight, although the passenger door does! The engine lid doesn't close because one of the turbo's stands high although touching the top of the engine. The windows/doors were far easier to fit than I imagined with both doors opening all the way up.

Thanks Dann. Well it's perhaps one of the worst fitting and vaguest set of instructions, also flash on the sprues and very heavy chroming. I wouldn't want to do one again.

Cheers Dan. I hope to get the windows in today.

The wheels tyres are now fitted after finishing the suspension. I have test fitted the body and it looks low at the back so that is as a tarmac set up as the tyres in the kit are slicks! The ESCI kit had treaded tyres and sat higher on the suspension. The steering works a treat. No rear mudflaps are supplied but shown on the box art so I may make some.