Merit Lancia Ferrari

[Dave B]

I remember building my first ever model in a hotel room in Launceston, Tasmania. It was just under 50 years ago, I must have been around 12 or 13 at the time. It was a Merit Lancia Ferrari & needless to say it did not turn out well & disappeared some time later. I thought the chances of seeing one again, at a reasonable price, was slim. Well around 10 years ago a long time mate of mine was clearing out his junk box & asked did I want a Merit body. It was the Lancia Ferrari but nowhere near complete. Top & bottom of clam shell body, 1 each front & rear wheel and that was about it. With a little help from him, he cast 2 more wheel/tyre combo's for me and vac formed over a nose cone I carved out of MDF, I was ready to start scratch building the other bits. The only purchased part are the Herb Deeks wire wheel inserts.

A couple of more pics to follow

Dave B

Edited February 3, 2012 by Bantoft

[Dave B]

Three more, sorry guys!!

Thanks for looking

Dave B

[RancheroSteve]

That's terrific - great save!

A good friend of mine also started off building Merit GP cars as a kid and was later able to collect pretty much all of them. Remarkable kits for their time.

[trogdor]

You did a great job on that.

[Foxer]

Great story AND build! If we all could have another shot at our first builds.

[randx0]

That looks really good ,I'm glad you were able to rebuild this blast from the past.

[jaymcminn]

Great save on a really unusual piece of modelling history. Well done!

[stevehansen]

Really Cool, well done

[Dave B]

Tks guys, it was nice for the opportunity to 'go back'

Dave B