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The 1000 km Paris at the dangerous racetrack of Monthléry, one of the most important GT races of the season, took place at the end of October. In 1961, Mexican brothers Pedro and Ricardo Rodriguez won, driving a Ferrari GT 250 SWB. The following year, 8 Ferrari GTO's participated in the race, Luigi Chinetti's NART entered # 3987 GT for the Rodriguez brothers, who took again the laurels in record time, lapping every other car This was the last win for Ricardo, who died 11 days later in an accident with a Lotus on a Mexican racetrack. Here is a 45 sec. video of that race and a picture of the winning car: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=8teb0zuHEwE I built it using the old Italeri 250 GTO :
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This is the original release from 1983, built in 1984 straight out of the box - nothing added (This is my only 1/24 truck, all others are 1/25 scale). Though the box says "Freightliner by Mercedes Benz", my decal sheet had only stripes and license plates, but NO Freightliner logos - so I had to take a silver pen for the front and hood sides and a black ink pen for the mudflaps! The door decal is from ERTL. And here, hooked to one of my trailers: