1/16th Vega Funnycar With a difference

[Ian McLaren]

Sometimes you just wander off into the wilderness with a project concept, this is going to be one of those times.  I have normally built representative models of real cars over the part few years. This one most certainly is not one of those. To paraphrase Straightliner59's tag line  This is a replica of an imaginary car.  Sorry Daniel, I just couldn't resist.  LOL

[Codi]

I'm a fan of "what if's" Ian and this one you're tackling has me quite interested.  Can't wait to see how wild you go with it.  cheers, tim

[John B.]

I can see by your choice of engine that this will be one for the ages!

[Straightliner59]

On 4/24/2025 at 2:25 PM, Ian McLaren said:

This is a replica of an imaginary car.  Sorry Daniel, I just couldn't resist.  LOL

No apology necessary, my friend! I am looking forward to this! A Cosworth on nitro. Sounds tasty!

Edited yesterday at 06:58 AM by Straightliner59

[AmericanMuscleFan]

Cool project Ian, is this 1/16 scale like most of your other projects?  Is that engine 3D printed? it looks well detailed by the way.

[Ian McLaren]

10 hours ago, AmericanMuscleFan said:

Cool project Ian, is this 1/16 scale like most of your other projects?  Is that engine 3D printed? it looks well detailed by the way.

Yes Francis, the body is one of my extra Green Elephants with the Comp Resins slant nose conversion,   The 1/16th Cosworth DFV is from a STL file from Ron Olsen, It rivals the detail in the Tamiya 1/20 and 1/12 versions.  I have built both of those and this actually has more oprions  as per the various series this engine competed in back in the day.  This is in essence a V8 Cosworth Vega.

 

[Ian McLaren]

On 4/26/2025 at 2:31 PM, Codi said:

I'm a fan of "what if's" Ian and this one you're tackling has me quite interested.  Can't wait to see how wild you go with it.  cheers, tim

I think a blown, injected, nitro Cosworth V8 Vega  is moving well out of the box.