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Superb!

Wow!! Who has bought out this kit Dustin? I ask as we don't see many Nascar kits here in the UK.

Brilliant stuff Dale well done. The colour /stance/rims just right!

Superb builds all on here! As we had five VW Beetles over the years, when VW came out with a water cooled car we thought that this was the beginning of the end for VW. How wrong we were! We've had a few Passats and both sons have had Golfs, our eldest out in Canada, has the latest Golf range topper! I have a MK 2 on the shelf, with the darker Green paint to build for my youngest son whose just passed 48! How time flies when your having fun!

Superb! We had hundreds if not thousands here at one time, France being so close! We used to call them the tin snail, due to the first ones being built of corrugated mild steel, and very slow having the twin cylinder air cooled motor, but very comfortable with the unique suspension. Very cool and trendy with the hippies of the 60's and 70's covered in large flower power stickers!

Very nice indeed!

Really neat! It's good to see a British sports car on here.

Yes the slicks are used on the tarmac stages for extra grip.

Fantastic so far! Who makes the Audi kit? I remember these when I was a rally marshall. I would see these and the other group 5 cars ( 037 Lancia's, Ford RS 200 etc) on our World Rally GB (RAC Rally) on the stages. Super quick and loud!

Thanks Tommy124. Yes I'd seen the press release that they were bringing that one out. Interesting that their (Rothmans) Rally build HQ was just up the road from here!

Now the wipers are the right way up for a right hand drive car! It looks great, well done David. We see here in the UK a lot of NEW MK2's on our rally TV programmes as in Ireland (EIRE) they still run them in the historic category. Plus there are folks who make spare shells and chassis. I had the problem when I started mine, not being able to decide whether to go the box-art or this way or copy one of the Irish cars!

Thanks Jim.

I retired at 64 that's 6 years ago. About 2 years before we (my wife and I) built a kit cabin 3.5 metres X 2.5 Metres in the sloping garden on a deck in 2 weeks, electrics, heating , sorted out Ikea shelving & chairs, DIY store table various lights, a home made spray booth with fan to the outside and Ikea Billy bookcases with glass doors. My production has gone through the roof. A kit built in 10 days, even with home printed decals, cast surfboards etc. Retirement is superb! So three hours in the morning and 2 hours in the afternoon, 5 days per week. Weekends off, just like work!

Thanks Robert. I do hope it inspires you to have a try at least.

Thanks again Dann.

Thanks Rusty. It might look clean and tidy but they only washed the body after the last stage, but they left the underside mucky!

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.