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Thanks David. Here's the box art.

Cheers Carl, I see so much Rallying and so much Grand Tour Race cycling I had to do this somehow or other!

Thanks guys.

Thanks espo. I've just watched another stage in the Tour of Spain with their various team support cars!

Cheers Dan.

Basic curbside kit, steering front suspension flimsy, so added plastic square rod to stabilise. This phantom version could be used as a Rally Barge, carrying spares from stage end to stage end on a major WRC rally. OR In a similar roll carrying spares/sustenance for a Grand Tour Cycling Team on the Tour of France, Spain, Italy etc.

Cheers Anton. I was getting the feeling that everything here had to be pristine and perfect, eg standard with no imagination.

Yes Howard and as a rally marshal in the day had met both of them at various events. Colin still lived with his family in Scotland with his parents living nearby. His brother Alastair has lived in Australia/New Zealand for a number of years now and although perhaps not having the breaks in rallying that his brother did, was successful in the USA with Subaru winning back to back championships, has also been successful in Oz etc with Subaru as well. Richard Burns lived near Oxford about 20 miles from here and I saw whilst marshalling at Silverstone a number of times, travelling with his girlfriend who later became his wife always on a big motorbike.

Thanks for your comments Howard. Yes your right the Monte Carlo Rally was the first.

I bought this some time ago, And used the decals on, So I've now used the McQueen decals on this rescued from a barn.. Unconventional Yes!

Looks like a great kit. I remember them on track at Silverstone when I marshalled there.

Cheers David.

But it's also interesting to note that although we started the WRC here in UK, this year like last we do not hold a round of the WRC this year! We are not part of the calendar!

Yes Howard. Prodrive is about 20 miles from us, so we see various cars being tested on our roads in camo. Mainly when they had the Subaru contract. We also see various camo Aston Martins as well as their test track is also near Banbury, as was the test facility for Rang Rover where my brother in law worked for many years in a test driver capacity. We were at the Williams F1 Workshops in 2018 where they have their joint build facility for Singer 911's in the UK.

Thanks for your comments Howard. When our youngest had his first VW Beetle it needed chassis work, a 1600cc engine and suspension lowering for the Cal-Look era. We took it to a Porsche rebuild specialist about 20 miles away. His workshops had these, 356's and other 911's all being rebuilt to 'as new' condition. They still build early 911's for race and rally.

Thanks guys. Yes Rothmans decals would look good but it was in the era of 'No Cigarette' advertising allowed.

Super decalling, well don!

Thanks guys.

Looking good. Nice to see a car I've seen racing at Classic Car events at Silverstone over the years since perhaps 1970! Oh what scale is it please?

Thanks Rusty. Yes I should have taken it out into the garden and thrown some dirt/mud over it!

Cheers Chris.

Thanks Paul. One thing I've learn't from this is to test fit more closely/often or build the kit and add decals after everything else.

Thanks Bruce.

Cheers Scott.

I washed and dried the kit, masking off where the blue was to go and spray painted that area. After a few days of drying I peeled off the masking tape added the front and rear bumpers and laid up all of the decals and they were just superb! On finishing the rolling chassis, I added the windows after painting the black areas. I then attempted to add the body to the chassis and found that difficult, as the body didn't stretch as far as it needed to. This took off the front bumper ruining the beautiful multi coloured top decal! I debated whether I should attempt to remove all of that decal or leave it as 'a shunt that had happened on the previous stage'! I re-attached the front bumper using super glue, cut the front attachment pins from the chassis., and re-assembled the body chassis. Now in place I added the smaller items to the body, tyre decals from stash, exhaust alloy tubes, mud flaps and front night driving stage lamps. And later it was seen outside the workshop..