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Very well saved, superb in fact!

Superb Bruce.

Wow Glen, what a beauty!

Thanks David.

As a snap kit it's well detailed, chassis, engine/gearbox, all suspension, front & rear axle/propshaft and opening bonnet, but no interior. With the kit you get two pages of logo's one stickers and one of decals. I thought being the cartoon images of a Nascar I thought of trying to find some decals in my left-overs and having a kit on the shelf for some time and the decals being still perfect I'd size them up. The roof nuimbers are much larger (as the body is slightly smaller although still 1/24th)but still fit at a push I decided to use the kit ones from a Revell 2006 Dupont Monte Carlo, so after some trimming up of large blocks of smaller decals...................

A few days ago.Two of these. One new, one gluebomb both from ebay UK..........

Superb! Good to see a great British sports car.

Cheers Rusty, yes I'm fascinated by the instructions and the artwork!

Thanks ed. Well we all think the same way, I'm about to lay up the decals on a Lightning McQueen by Revell! Also Bob aka tooold on Coffin Corner has just finished one as well! He is also bought a second one to put on genuine Nascar decals, so that should be good! I looked at Nascar decals myself (from a kit on the shelf) but they are too large for this kit.

Cheers Tim, I've been watching various historic saloon car races on YouTube of Goodwood Revival meetings and seeing these flying through corners on three wheels, full beans/flat to the floor!

Thanks Larry.

Cheers guys.

Thanks Larry.

Cheers Lyle.

Cheers guys! I've got another one just delivered £8 post paid brand new! Now what colour next time? Oh the Revell Lightning McQueen is next!

My second one of these Dave Deal creations. Bought as a glue bomb over ebay UK, with some sort of glue holding various parts together. The wheels had the axles broken after being stuck in the wheels backs and not matter how much enamel thinner was used I had to drill out the axle stubs. Seeing the original artwork from Dave on the box in yellow I chose that colour after sourcing various bits broken or missing, one of which was the aerial missing and the bendy exhaust broken (get out the candle to bend another). The aerial was made from copper wire wound round a small diameter alloy tube. Showing the difference in tyre diameters and 1/24 tyre decals at the front to 1/12 at the rear.

Thanks guys, yes I seen some of the Tamiya version on sale here in the UK on ebay.

Thanks guys, and yes I've seen this kit advertised as a new kit on ebay but in the UK.

Thanks Tim. yes a very nice kit although when finally fitting the body over the chassis it dislodged one side of the bonnet hinge fixing bracket behind the grille!

Thanks guys!

Thanks guys. Don thanks for your comments on the 1750 GTV, I saw racing versions of those too some years ago, when I was a race marshall at Silverstone.

On moving a few things around at home I came across Bench Racer by Andy Kellock in the June 2015 edition of Scale Auto magazine, so spurring me to do something with the Tamiya road version of this car. Box stock bar a half roll cage, doorside 'bullet' mirror, rear boot mounted fuel filler, short exhausts and decals. Adding also Tamiya Italian Red paint work and gloss white front corner as per research of these iconic racers.

Superb! I saw one recently in a local filling station with an old Ferrari both on their way to Silverstone just 5 miles from here, for a classic car race meeting.

Superb! I've built a couple of the 'estate' cars one as a racer, the original kit and one a mountain bike hauler for the road. I love the 'steel' wheels, where did you get them?!

Great! I had two of these when they first came out, one like this and converted the second to a pickup carrying the spares!