curt raitz Posted August 18, 2008 Posted August 18, 2008 Built this for a friend a while back It was a very old kit, but went together fairly well I enjoyed building this kit and was very happy with the final result...one of those rare builds were everything worked! The proud owner has it on display in his dentists office... Thanx for lookin'
ismaelg Posted August 18, 2008 Posted August 18, 2008 Wow! That is so cool! What kit is that? I love it. Dan Gurney is a true legend and a favorite. Thanks for sharing!
Bernard Kron Posted August 18, 2008 Posted August 18, 2008 Wow! That is so cool! What kit is that? Yeah! Beautiful execution on what looks like a well detailed kit. What kit is it!!!
george 53 Posted August 18, 2008 Posted August 18, 2008 (edited) GREAT BUILD Curt! That is my FAVORITE Can-Am car of all time! I have the coupe version by R&D unique and a couple of the old IMC roadster kits.I even have the Tamiya 1/12th coupe kit.Did you know George Lucas used those coupe versions in his first sci-fi flick"THX 1138"? He used em as cop cars cause he thought they looked futuristic.Like I said before, GREAT BUILD!!! Edited August 18, 2008 by george 53
Nick F40 Posted August 18, 2008 Posted August 18, 2008 Oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy........... :angry: Great job Curt!
curt raitz Posted August 18, 2008 Author Posted August 18, 2008 Went diggin' thru the box of instructions (for whatever reason...I keep all of the instructions for everything I build) The kit is an IMC #108 Mecom Lola T-70 The guy I built it for sent me the kit from his collection thanx
3men2s Posted August 18, 2008 Posted August 18, 2008 iT'S MAKING ME SING...."GO SPEED RACER, GO SPEED RACER...... GO SPEEDRACER, GOOOOOO!!!!!!! THOSE WERE THE DAYS, RAW POWER AND "I DON'T NEED NO STINKING" (SAFETY EQUIPMENT, EXPENSIVE, HIGH TECH GROUND EFFECTS, BIG SPONSOR, RESTRICTIVE ENGINES, RULES, RULES RULES....) EVEN DOU, YOUR SKILL HAS GONE WAY HIGHER, SINCE THEN THE MODEL LOOKS SO COOOL....THANKS FOR SHARERING YOUR HISTORY sir, can I have some MORE, PLEASE!!!!!
Brendan Posted August 18, 2008 Posted August 18, 2008 Nice job on the Lola. I've several of the Tamiya 1/12 lying around somewhere. I need to build them at some point. One of my favorite Can-Am cars.
Crazy Ed Posted August 18, 2008 Posted August 18, 2008 Great Build Curt Went diggin' thru the box of instructions (for whatever reason...I keep all of the instructions for everything I build) The kit is an IMC #108 Mecom Lola T-70 The guy I built it for sent me the kit from his collection thanx There's also the Union reissue # MC06-1500. You got creative with the induction. The Kit came with short stack Webers Ed Erbeck Jr.
Nick F40 Posted August 19, 2008 Posted August 19, 2008 iT'S MAKING ME SING...."GO SPEED RACER, GO SPEED RACER...... GO SPEEDRACER, GOOOOOO!!!!!!! THOSE WERE THE DAYS, RAW POWER AND "I DON'T NEED NO STINKING" (SAFETY EQUIPMENT, EXPENSIVE, HIGH TECH GROUND EFFECTS, BIG SPONSOR, RESTRICTIVE ENGINES, RULES, RULES RULES....) EVEN DOU, YOUR SKILL HAS GONE WAY HIGHER, SINCE THEN THE MODEL LOOKS SO COOOL....THANKS FOR SHARERING YOUR HISTORY sir, can I have some MORE, PLEASE!!!!! EXACTLY!Man, I can't stress that enough and that is why I like the racing I do! When drivers actually need to DRIVE and could learn how to DRIVE
curt raitz Posted August 19, 2008 Author Posted August 19, 2008 Great Build Curt There's also the Union reissue # MC06-1500. You got creative with the induction. The Kit came with short stack Webers Ed Erbeck Jr. Ya I know...but my buddy wanted it with BIG stacks! so I found some nice BIG aluminum stacks for him...
Daniel Peterson Posted August 19, 2008 Posted August 19, 2008 I can't add much to what has already been said. It's a dynamite build!
Gregg Posted August 22, 2008 Posted August 22, 2008 It was great to see these cars run on Saturday! I know, I know, where's the pics!!!!! Have over 700 of them, even a pair of old "Orange" cars bumping and grinding on the corkscrew!!!!!!! The pain, and dollars in that one :-)
george 53 Posted August 22, 2008 Posted August 22, 2008 Thats Right! You were at the Monterey Historic, this past weekend! Man Gregg, some pics in the Magazine would be a cool way to let us in on it! Or heck, just run a few on here! Musta been a GREAT time, I envy you!
E St. Kruiser50 Posted August 22, 2008 Posted August 22, 2008 (edited) Hi curt Got some history trivia for ya. Back in the 60's, Skip Fox (Or Hudson - Can't remember which) used to race one of these at Riverside Raceway in SoCal. I worked as a pattern maker for Lancer Co. (Slot Racing Bodies) and we sponsored his car for a couple of years. Colin Chapman in England produced these and the coupes, the Lola T70 MK3's for race and also for the street. A P.R. guy brought one of the coupes out to the company and a few of us got to go for a ride with a 500 H.P. small block right behind my head. They were slated to go into production to compete with Corvette sales and had a pending deal to buy engines from Chevrolet. When G.M. saw the car they cancelled the deal. Too bad. I wanted one. Very few were ever produced for the street. With 500 H.P., nothing could touch 'um, - and handle - OH MY GOSH!! Dan Gurney - A very cool guy. He built and raced his Olsonite Eagle with the Gurney/Westlake engine. He brought the car out to Lancer Co. and I got to meet him and to photograph the car, as I was the pattern maker who was going to replicate his car into a master for slot racing bodies. Hope you enjoy the history Edited August 22, 2008 by Treehugger Dave
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