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Hi, afx I have three projects with this car as a base, a street version to be painted metalic orange (the only one I keep in my memory), the Bandama car, and the DAKKAR BOSS blue car, all waiting for proper/ CORRECT size wheels and tires...alhough things are changing, now, as we can get from USCP correct size wheels for the two first projects and proper BBSs and the peculiar optional rear sand tires from RENAISSANCE (now finely available) I only saw in this particular car BUT, is it possible no one ever noticed these also peculiar rear side little windows (what are these 45 degrees aluminum blades intended for?), BEHIND A GLASS, impossible to correct as there is not enough depth for it, wrong in the original ESCI kit, but kept in the ITALARI remake kit? (what a long question!....) these little damned things seem to be very difficult to reproduce at least for me, and are present in all cars except in the left side of the BOSS car, where it was removed to allow refueling the beast... Is there any magic modeller "with the guts" to make these missing parts???

Sighs, sighs, sighs... Thank you very much, James...

Hi! I am 100% sure there was a Sport Turismo 1/24 resin body annouced, one or two months before the Revell arrived in the shops... photos showed a matt chocolate brown (primary painted?) ST (5 doors) resin body, but now, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND IT! I AM POSITIVE! it was not a dream! Is there anyone who did also see it, like I did? very good images, like USCP use to show their resin wheels... always the same back color behind the body...

Well, I did not expect less than what you show us at last! what a great work-of-art!... why don't you try some photosof the car on some P100 grain metal sanding paper ( may be a little lightened), it would look just like the real car... or over some green flocking paper, like the Peeble Beach green lawn... Thank you very much for your new build

Hi, Pico! great look, although light reflections are a little tricky... seats do have the correct shape, don't they? and windows, plain clear sheet or vacuform? I can't wait until it has the wheels!

Pico, you are making us all feel real thrills when seeing your magnificent Pegaso Thrill going to the Great Apotheosis... don't stop until we can see and Enjoy it at last with you, please! Please...

Hi JC, well, I did already improve my chosen wheels, so I moved to another big issue, the hood, as this particular car is seen always without one... I suppose it would be sold as a roadster, as it does not have a rear windshield... so, I chopped an old ESCI 934 to get a roof for my Viper; it seemed a to be a "piece of cake"... cut it by the middle and added a 4mm plastic ribbon to increase the width and when I finally test fit it... the Viper just looked as the most beautiful of "all ever designed" trucks, the Spanish Z-206 Pegaso!... after checking the Viper blueprints I found that the AMT kit windshield is too high, or it might also be possible that these two racing Vipers had shorter windshields... a new rooftop was chopped from a Tamyia Moby Dick bought in a scrapyard sale and, after filing the windshield until reaching (above) the little protuberance where the rear mirror is attached, this time I think I finally made it! a little front spoiler was also added; the hole in the back is the second filler cap this car did have. Now I have to make a rear spoiler and the rear winshield (I found one photo where it clearly appears rear photos of this car are hard to find, and the rear spoiler is too big...)... there it is, that little white sticker... some more to come...

Beautiful 'Vette, Rob!I have one like yours to build, but this (these C5-Rs) model major drawback is the Very Poor wheels!... I had already lost some time with one wheel, but did put it apart; now, because of you I already spent 4 hours just to open the smaller holes inside each Y (10 each wheel...) of the two front wheels, and still have to find a way to clean these millions of microscopic grains of unwanted plastic in the insides... I have to find a tinny metallic bristles brush... for the other two 'Vettes I also have, that used the same BBSs, I think I will by two Scale Production 18" BBS GT (SPRF24030) wheels sets...I lost some 1/4 litre of my precious blood while using that new X-acto nº11 (?) extra long blade in this operation!... But these Corvette BBS wheels are different from the Viper's... there is that "multi nuts" ring missing... And I noticed I still have to correct my Viper rear wheels, as the center part of these wheels will have to be pulled out as like the front ones... will have to undo what I did with the rear chromed metal outer rings and "machine" the resin part of the wheels, as I already explained above for the front wheel centers... Thank you very much!

Thank you very much but, the only ones in all that list, that I thought would fit, are the Hobby Designs 16" (I suppose the ones I bought are 16" but lost the bag...), the ones in this site are 18", but, if the size of the ones I bought is ok, they are unfortunately all VERY DEEP and, besides, it is impossible to correct it as the multi nut rings are molded in the outer rim, and, being SO tinny, it would be impossible to remove these rings to bring it 2,5 mm out without destroying it all... I am absolutely sure the only way is the method I described before... the way I am doing it, is fixing one of these flanges with expanding rubber where we fix a sanding tube, where I did put a 1/32 slot car tire reaching the interior diameter of the BBS wheel, and securing it so I could "machine" it in my "motor tool" in order to separate the central part of the wheel from the rim; next, glued it to the inner tube, that was then inserted inside the wheel rim; The chromed outer rims where also modified: the front ones went to the rear wheels, and the wider ones (intended for the Dauer Rear wheels) where then cut to become a little slicker (about 1mm) than these that went to the rear wheels; This is the way how I managed to get what I thing the Le Mans 1994 RT-10 Vipers BBS wheels look like, as you can see in the images; now what I need is a Zero-paints ZP-1009 Fluorescent Orange and a scratch rear spoiler; and yes, a racing seat also; And then: building this fantastic beast that, in it's maiden race, achieved "the" 12th place!...

Yes, I usually buy in Scale Prod, but none fits this particular car... first, it would have to be 1/24 16", that would become 17" in 1/25; this Viper is in 1/25th scale... no one of his BBS in 16" have the surrounding multi nuts ring, that is clearly apparent in this car's wheels!... I will post some photos as soon as I have the wheels made... and have to be assured by him he will restock the 16"/19" BBSs , as I need the front 16" slicks from this set; I have one set already, but I am waiting for an ARII BMW 3.5 CSL, that will become Frank Stella's Le Mans Art Car, the only of the four 3.5 CSL built that used Bi Turbos, but was so powerful that needed much bigger/wider rear wheels to put all that power on the ground; wheels did hold it, but not the trans-axles... even a new and stronger one in the following year, barely did the job... 19"s will be great in the model, and this one will be static, no trans axle problems at all! Thank you very much for keeping this thread on!

Thank you very much, Andy, but I have to disagree totally with you... first of all the Viper is a 1/25 model, while the GT1 Evo is at 1/24... second, the Viper wheels centers are "outlined" by a multi nut rim, unlike the Porsche's... I posted this query yesterday, in total despair, since I found once in some modellers forum that the answer would be the Le Mans Miniatures Dauer Porsche, and, when I opened the box and tested it in my Viper, the world just collapsed... these wheels, with it's tires, are monstruous in this car! that is why I ranned to internet to find some help... BUT, today, looking again to these wheels, I decided to try to figure a way to save it, so I began to test some tires from different cars and makes, and fond that the FRONT Dauer wheels, and TIRES, are exactly the proper size to fit the rear Viper wheels; so the next thing was to solve the front wheels problem, which is the REAL challenge... First, tires had to have a smaller diameter; after extensive search I found that the Scale Production 16"/19" BBS front tires will be PERFECT, I have only to order it, but I found they are now out of stock... Now the final and Main problem: modifying the Dauer front wheels to become Viper wheels... the latter are quite different, the center part is considerably less deeper, and protrude the outer rim, so I will have to separate/cut the center part from the rim, glue it in a tube which outer diameter is exactely the inner diameter of the wheel rim, so I can pull it out about 1,5mm; in the end, I will have to trim the rear chromed metal rims to make it the same width of the front ones, and I WILL AT LAST BE ABLE TO FINISH MY 1994 "L' Orange" RT/10 Dodge Viper! I hope this is of help for you all...

Did somebody build the Dodge Viper RT/10 "Rent-A-Car" Le Mans 1994 (1/25 AMT base)? I can I find the correct BBS wheels for this particular car?

Yes, I already contacted them and they told me that all MGs As and Bs are long out of production...

Thank you very much for your answer; but I learned for extensive search that they are all three looong out of production... couldn't find one everywhere/anywhere... I think the only option is scratch building one, did somebody try to do it?

Hi, is it possible to ignore one of the most beautiful sports cars of the fifties, the MGA, Roadster or Fixed Head? Why such a model kit never appeared? Did anyone make one MGA model from scratch?

Hi, is it possible to ignore one of the most beautiful sports cars of the fifties, the MGA? Why such a model kit never appeared? Did anyone make one MGA model from scratch?

I told you it would be a great Waldorf Nomad model, did'nt I !!!

Streetmachine 11, now we have a little problem here, we are seeing two different buildings: yours, based on a '56 Nomad, and Superbird McMonte's, witch I might say is based on the '55 Nomad... I too would like to build the four '54 Motorama Corvette "jewels" so, after some research I did buy a '55 Nomad kit, along with a '53 Corvette BUT, what I think would be great, it would be to get some blueprints of this particular Nomad, to get the correct wheelbase in order to see exactly where to make all the "surgical" cuttings... You lengthened the '56 chassis how many mms? Is the '55 kit chassis the same size of the '56's? are they the same size in 1/1, or are they different? And, of course, you will get a great model in the end!

Well, for now I do have to agree with you, I do have a Lindberg GT6 ( that was waiting for the finding of the wheels they used in Le Mans, a most probable impossibility, as I never saw it in some other car... so I did not pay great attention to the kit...) it's quality is really is very, very bad! so I already cut the top off, and it may go in the Corvette with, I believe, a BIG AMOUNT of work... let us see what I can achieve with it... thank you very much for your tip

Does somebody know how to convert an AMT '53 Corvette in one of his Show Car "uncles", the Corvair? I had no time to buy a Mini Exotics transkit when it was available...

Thank you very much for your info! I am already collecting all the material I need...

How can I convert a 1/25 Nomad Chevy into a 1/25 "marvelous" Waldorf Nomad Corvette?

Hi Pico, my hopes are increasing now... so if Bob Sheldon can sell me a 810 sedan Cord body, how can I contact him directly to arrange things? thank you very much

Hi John, do you have Bob Sheldon's email? I NEED a Cord 810 sedan body... thank you very much