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I was clearing out the loft recently to put some new insulation in and found this and a few other bits. It says 1977 on the box and I wouldn't be surprised if that was when I bought and built it! It was in bits mainly from neglect so I spent a week in refurb mode. The engine and separate gearbox were out as were the seats, dash, and the rear bumper and tail units had dropped off. I also cut out a very thin piece of clear plastic to make one headlight lens that had also gone adrift. I topped off the 1970's black gloss rattle can paint with a coat of AutoGlym car polish.

We have a lot of those on the road here in the UK all of a sudden. If you want to make one you can use the same hinge mech as on opening doors, just have two opposite sides hinged in the base and two in the top, or something like that!

After over 40 years of marriage and 50 years of modemaking, my wife wanted the dining room table back, something about family coming over for Christmas dinner? So five years ago she helped me build this in the back garden................................... I've not been disturbed since. Doubled glazed , lighting, heating and fully insulated just the job, for just £2,400!

Super VDub! I wish I was brave enough to try and chop any vehicle!

Superb build of a super British sportscar, and as you say in the right colour! Thanks for sharing. Morgan did supply the wheels in both aluminium and chrome finish. Except the Plus 8 which came with alloy wheels as standard or wires as extra's, at a price! Mind you a friend here in the UK had to wait seven years after ordering his Morgan! That's any model.

Well done Douglas that looks superb! We had the Prodrive factory where they built all of the Subaru Rally team and customer cars just 20 miles from here in the UK.

Super job Thomas. I have one on the shelf, but when built I shall have to make a perspex display case as my display cabinets only go up to 1/16th scale!

Super build, well done............................... of a mini that I knew here in the UK, during my time as a race/ airfield marshall at Silverstone, where James was many times when he was racing in F! for Lord Hesketh whose country estate was about 5 miles away !.

Holy Moly I've just picked up on this! What a fantastic build. I've not looked at this section before, only looking here as my Citroen DS 19 was moved here without my knowing where it had gone. Superb work David and thanks for sharing the build.

Cheers Sam.

Thanks Bill. Yes a superb car to drive still, 50 years later!

How do I pm? Harry or Casey who?

I'm confused. Firstly this thread shows 'no replies' when clearly there are ten. Secondly the thread has been moved. Thirdly there's no area on this forum to query things to find out why these are wrong!

Really good, I've been looking at that for a while now on the Star Models site. Now I see what it's like, very good

Well thanks guys I didn't know that it would be so popular!

Now that is really rough and good. Well done.

Now that's different and beautiful!

Cheers 62rebel, yes it's not too bad. The plastic is pretty soft and the instructions are not quite straightforward. I would have fitted the doors better if I'd had test fitted them before putting the wings (fenders) on. The glass in the front doors slides up and down nicely.

And these are the other few................ It is also the first time for me to paint whitewalls.

I finished this today. As the body is too big for my paintbooth I polished the body with micro-gloss............. And a few more pics to come............

OK Michael I'll continue to watch your build with great interest! I've got the Toyota 86 with all the bits plus two extra packs of wide arches (fenders) coming from HLJ. Hopefully I can fit the extra arches to a few Porsche 911's I have on the shelf!

OK William thanks very much.

I sent an email to Replicas & Miniatures about 10 days ago about buying one of these kits and sending to me in the UK but no answer as yet.

I like the idea so................... Is it going to look something like this?

Thanks for putting this on here Greg, I've just looked at the build on the highlighted link, fantastic!