Indy survivors

[Lizard Racing]

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. 

 

[afx]

Nice.

[Snake45]

Gotta love survivors! Clean 'em up, touch 'em up, fix what's broken, and display them proudly!

[DumpyDan]

Very nice, you would never know they were 50 years old

[Davewilly]

Nice!

[bbowser]

Well done!  I know how fiddley those kits can be, yours are very nice.

[vintagercr]

Nice builds.

[Dann Tier]

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]

Cool builds, wish I had room to display that type of model, Would love to get back to building those.

[Roadrunner]

Very cool indeed.

[Lizard Racing]

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.