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Thanks Steve, Ben, Dave and all how look in.

Dave nice info. on the kit, first one for me and I'm loving it.

If you like to sale one or two PM me.

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Good progress, looking forward to seeing more!

I agree with Dave Van, would be great to see more of these in kit, I have one on the shelf, and you can find them on eBay, several on there now in fact for about $50 per, perhaps I'll look at doing one after my M6GT kit build?

McLaren should be as much vaulted as Shelby for his contributions, another American racing legend!!

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McLaren should be as much vaulted as Shelby for his contributions, another American racing legend!!

Bruce McLaren was from New Zealand.

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This is a great model to work on. Only thing about it is the fitting of the panels when using the vinyl lines. Maybe You using the braided lines will have more space to deal with putting the panels on and off. Another thing to keep an eye out for are the tires, they tend to just break in half. If this happens pm me, I had to make molds and make copies of the tires in order to finish mine.

I built mine out of the box, it's on page 8 of the underglass section.

Keep posting your work.

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This is one of my favorite kits of all time. I worked on 1:1 M8s when they were new in '69 -'70, later on in the mid-late'70s when the collectors were starting to buy them up, and then later still in the early-mid '90s as vintage racers. I certainly think that besides being one of the most beautiful and most 'right' looking, the M8 McLarens are some of the most important race cars in history, ranking with the Ford GT40 and Porsche 917. The cars, as originally run by McLaren and Hulme in 1969, carried their rear wings considerably higher than as portrayed in this particular kit.

The McLaren works cars ran aluminum blocks, as did most of the privateers, and to the best of my recollection weren't painted. The fuel-injection line-to-bodywork interference problem so many seem to complain about on these kits is best solved by using soft wire of around .013" diameter instead of the kit-supplied vinyl or aftermarket braid. In reality, the lines to the injector bodies would appear to be about the diameter of the plug wires, and soft wire to represent these may be formed with tighter bends to clear the bodywork.

Very nice work so far.

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This is one of my favorite kits of all time. I worked on 1:1 M8s when they were new in '69 -'70, later on in the mid-late'70s when the collectors were starting to buy them up, and then later still in the early-mid '90s as vintage racers. I certainly think that besides being one of the most beautiful and most 'right' looking, the M8 McLarens are some of the most important race cars in history, ranking with the Ford GT40 and Porsche 917. The cars, as originally run by McLaren and Hulme in 1969, carried their rear wings considerably higher than as portrayed in this particular kit.

The McLaren works cars ran aluminum blocks, as did most of the privateers, and to the best of my recollection weren't painted. The fuel-injection line-to-bodywork interference problem so many seem to complain about on these kits is best solved by using soft wire of around .013" diameter instead of the kit-supplied vinyl or aftermarket braid. In reality, the lines to the injector bodies would appear to be about the diameter of the plug wires, and soft wire to represent these may be formed with tighter bends to clear the bodywork.

Very nice work so far.

My kit came and it is truly remarkable. What a loss AM was!!! I built their Dautlas and i have their B-25C and now the McLaren.

I would like to replace the vinyl lines where appropriate with braid. What is a good reference for the "as-raced" McLarens?

thanks,

joe.

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