Lizard Racing Posted July 4, 2017 Posted July 4, 2017 Here are two old Indy cars recently resurrected from storage. I built the '68 Eagle in 1972. It came straight out of 30+ years of storage. I even have the original box! The paint is a bit dirty and the decals faded. I did manage to wash off the dust. The McLaren was always a fantasy car and was recently rebuilt and repainted. It reflects a '74 McLaren but changed and updated in a subsequent year (pre-Cosworth). There's nothing older than last year's race car.
Snake45 Posted July 5, 2017 Posted July 5, 2017 Gotta love survivors! Clean 'em up, touch 'em up, fix what's broken, and display them proudly!
DumpyDan Posted July 5, 2017 Posted July 5, 2017 Very nice, you would never know they were 50 years old
bbowser Posted July 6, 2017 Posted July 6, 2017 Well done! I know how fiddley those kits can be, yours are very nice.
Dann Tier Posted July 9, 2017 Posted July 9, 2017 Those are pretty slick!!!, I wish all these cars were done in 1/24 -25 scale; don't know why they are all in 1/20. GREAT work!!!!
Michael in Illinois Posted July 10, 2017 Posted July 10, 2017 Cool builds, wish I had room to display that type of model, Would love to get back to building those.
Lizard Racing Posted July 11, 2017 Author Posted July 11, 2017 Here is a third Indy survivor that is a parts bin project. I have always been a fan of the supercharged Offy which ran in '66-'67 until overtaken by the turbo. The chassis is the AMT Lotus with the engine from the Watson roadster. Some of the parts are nearly 50 years old, since I built several variations of the Lotus back in the day. Tires are from Indycals. Here are all three Indy cars I was working on at the same time. Ten years of Indy car development. I think I'm going to do something simple next. Thanks for viewing.
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