Bonneville and LSR Models

[gtx6970]

Something you mght want to ck out are plain old rubber O rings.

You can buy a lifetime assortmant at Harbor Freight for under $10 I think

Edited March 15, 2013 by gtx6970

[Art Anderson]

Did you know that the first six holders of the "official" automobile land speed record were electric cars? And the seventh was steam powered! The first internal-combustion-powered land speed holder was the eighth one, and from then on the IC-powered vehicles were unbeaten... until the jet-powered cars came along.

The steam powered LSR car was the "Oldsmobile Rocket".

Art

[Junkman]

There was at least one 1/24 scale resin, and one 1/20 scale vacuformed kit of the 1960 Donald Campbell Proteus Bluebird.


Then there is a resin kit of the stillborn Mercedes T80 in 1/24.

[Greg Myers]

Here's a site dedicated to Land Speed Record car kits: http://www.lsrinmin.co.uk/index.html

Edited April 10, 2015 by Greg Myers

[Ace-Garageguy]

Pretty good stuff there, Greg. Especially useful if someone wants to model a particular car or era, but can't quite recall the car's name or builder.

[gtx6970]

Cool thread,

Although I've had an interest in these cars to build..

I can certaintly appreciate the effort it took to make the accomplishments they did.

I've seen the Goldenrod a few years when it was making the rounds on the show car circuit...that thing is tiny ,,,but looooooong

[Greg Myers]

It is long Wouldn't fit in this garage in Sun City AZ back in the eighties.