Harry P. Posted January 2, 2012 Posted January 2, 2012 How about this one? Real or model? The answer: REAL!
Pete J. Posted January 2, 2012 Posted January 2, 2012 Ah, the one and only pink pig! Yep, it's real! Look at the wear on the tires.
timc Posted January 2, 2012 Posted January 2, 2012 I say real. Just something about the windshaid wiper.
sjordan2 Posted January 2, 2012 Posted January 2, 2012 So Harry... Of course, you have your full name in your sig, but..where's your full name under "Full Name?"
warra48 Posted January 2, 2012 Posted January 2, 2012 I'd say REAL. If it's not, then you've fooled a lot of us so far.
pepperdrumstix Posted January 3, 2012 Posted January 3, 2012 Real. Look at the fine mesh in the grill openings. The glass headlights look real too. Tire wear. It's real.
weasel Posted January 3, 2012 Posted January 3, 2012 dunno, i'm going with model....don't like the 'thickness' of the body at the wheel openings...
Haubenschild Posted January 3, 2012 Posted January 3, 2012 (edited) I gotta say model , just something about the rear wheel wells Edited January 3, 2012 by Haubenschild
CorvairJim Posted January 3, 2012 Posted January 3, 2012 Ach, "Der Truffel-Jager von Zuffenhausen", the famous Porsche 917-20 "Pink Pig" as campaigned by Reinhold Joest and Willy Kauhsen in the 1971 edition of the "24 Heuers du Mans" (LeMans 24 Hour race). The actual car is now in the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart. As for this photo, I'm not 100% certain, but I think it's the real deal. The weathering of the lettering on the tire sidewalls just looks too spot-on to have been done by a modeler who most likely would either have done the entire car as shiny as this one is including brand new appearing tires, or weathered to a post-race appearance. These tires look like they've been sitting in a museum a while to me. The photos I've seen of the actual car show the same incerdibly narrow, incredibly even panel lines, and that fine mesh grille would have to be some extra sheer cloth to look this good in scale.
W-409 Posted January 3, 2012 Posted January 3, 2012 This is hard one. But I say model. Somehow it just looks really nice model more, than real. But let's see of friday, I might be wrong, as usually.
Crazy Ed Posted January 3, 2012 Posted January 3, 2012 Ach, "Der Truffel-Jager von Zuffenhausen", the famous Porsche 917-20 "Pink Pig" as campaigned by Reinhold Joest and Willy Kauhsen in the 1971 edition of the "24 Heuers du Mans" (LeMans 24 Hour race). The actual car is now in the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart. What's most Funny about this Car is it was a Martini Car and the Martini folks thought the paint was so ugly they refused to have their name on it!
dimaxion Posted January 3, 2012 Posted January 3, 2012 Sooo ..weee ! I like this little piggy . Is it one of the pigs 'Green Jelly' sang about ?? Thanx ..
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