Can anyone identify this car/kit?

[Matt Bacon]

http://tinyurl.com/oe5cc8t

It looks a lot like a Ford P68, but there are a bunch of detail differences, and it's quite like a Lola T70 road car, but it's not that either. I think it must be that era, though. The colour makes me wonder if it might be some Alpine that I've never come across, but I think it's too big and beefy for an Alpine...

Any ideas?

bestest,

M.

[oldnslow]

The car has elements of a couple Porsche designs, 904 and 906 are similar.

[pack rat]

Looks like an Alfa Romeo Type 33

[wisdonm]

Bizzarrini P538

Edited August 16, 2013 by wisdonm

[Fabrux]

Coyote X!

[Matt Bacon]

You're right, it does look a lot like a Tipo 33. I was confused by the long tail, which doesn't look like the photos I have of Tipo 33 Stradales, which also show black mesh covered vents behind the front and real wheels. But looking at a picture of the plastic in the Fujimi issue of the kit (I don't have one, but there's one for sale on eBay with pictures...), it seems that the Otaki/Nichimo model DOES have a long tail and no vents.

Mystery solved, then...

(Oh, and the windscreen wiper on the ones in my pictures is at the bottom...)

Thanks, all...

bestest,

M.

[Greg Myers]

One of my all time favorites. Was this ever kited ?

[sjordan2]

Definitely the Alfa 33. Here's the closest shot I could find.

http://www.carfolio.com/specifications/models/car/?car=42317

Edited August 16, 2013 by sjordan2

[om617]

Kinda look like a street version of the Datsun/Nissan R380-ii

This? http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10000755

Edited August 16, 2013 by om617

[Matt Bacon]

I'm sure that's it, Skip, but this is what I see when I'm thinking of the Tipo 33:

I didn't know there was a "long-tail" version... and I've never had the Fujimi kit, though it is on my "saved searches" now...

bestest,

M.

Edited August 16, 2013 by Matt Bacon

[rasafyff]

I think this is the Otaki 1/16 scale Alfa Romeo Coupe 33.

There's one on eBay right now.

[Greg Myers]

Yep

Edited August 17, 2013 by Greg Myers

[Mike Kucaba]

I agree. There's a couple 1/16th in my stash.

[sjordan2]

Looks like it would take a bit of "accurizing." Especially, fixing the depth of the wheels would be difficult.

[Ace-Garageguy]

Skip's got it right. The shapes and locations of the vents at the base of the windshield and on the rear quarters define conclusively the version of Alfa 33 he posted. Research shows it to be a 1967 Alfa 33-2 Stradale, designed by Scaglione,

[Matt Bacon]

Personally, I prefer the short-tail version I posted up the thread, so it wouldn't just be a case of accurizing, but a fairly major rebuild of the back end...

bestest,

M.

[Greg Myers]

Ford P68, there out they're somewhere :

Edited August 17, 2013 by Greg Myers

[Draggon]

That P-68 shows up on ebay fairly regularly.

[aurfalien]

Hi,

A bit late to the convo but it looks to be the Fuji R380 kit;

http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/image/10000755t2/60/2

I read that it was developed by Prince Motor Company before Nissan/Datsun bought em out in the 60's who refined the car further in to the kit we see now. The car looks to have given Porsche 904/906 a run for the money and beating them on a regular basis. At least in the Japanese Grand Prix.

[Earl Marischal]

Here's another version of the Ford:

http://www.airfix.com/catalog/product/view/_ignore_category/1/id/8421/s/ford-3-litre-gt/

steve

[aurfalien]

Its odd that the MFH kit doesn't call it a Ford.

But man, what a sweet ride and a sweet kit for sure. I really love that 60's era of racing, such beauty in style.

[Matt Bacon]

Its odd that the MFH kit doesn't call it a Ford.

I guess it isn't, strictly, a Ford. It was designed and built by Alan Mann Racing, with aerodynamics by a guy "on loan" from Ford, and a Ford 3 litre DFV V8. So it's really it's no more a Ford than the Lotus, Brabham, Matra, Tyrell, Lola... etc, etc. F1 cars that were built around the same engine...

Maybe that's why...

bestest,

M.