Phildaupho Posted August 30, 2013 Posted August 30, 2013 Hosted on Fotki Very early in the 1960’s Henry Ford II decided he wanted his motor company to totally dominate international motorsports. The first target was the Indy 500. With the help of Dan Gurney, Ford partnered with Lotus to enter cars in the 1963 500 based on the current Lotus Formula One chassis and powered by an aluminum version of the new small block Ford V-8. Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki The model was built pretty much from the old AMT kit representing the Lotus driven in the 500 by Dan Gurney. In addition to the usual painting, I dull coated a number of the chrome parts, molded the nose sections, made the front wheels poseable and added ignition wires and seat belts. I have seen a few of these built with a red steering wheel and seat, which the Jim Clark British Racing Green Lotus certainly had. The restored Gurney car now has a black seat and steering wheel so that is how I built it. The kit was pretty well engineered for such an old kit. Everything to the rear of the driver’s compartment was a very tight fit as it was on the real car. The old decals left a lot to be desired. They were stiff, brittle and gooey. Micro Sol had little affect on them so they are what they are. More photos of the model and real car are at http://public.fotki.com/phildaupho/dan-gurney-scale-ra/1963-lotus-indy/
TooOld Posted August 30, 2013 Posted August 30, 2013 Beautifully done ! One of the best looking Indy cars ever .
Bill J Posted August 31, 2013 Posted August 31, 2013 Your Lotus looks great. I have a pair of the kits and plan to do them sometime soon. I'm waiting on some new resin body parts that are more accurate. Indycals.com sells decals for that car as well as corrected tires with decals for the tire markings.
Rob Hall Posted August 31, 2013 Posted August 31, 2013 Beautiful build...I have a couple of these kits (the regular and the one in the '80s 3-kit set), but haven't built them.
1930fordpickup Posted August 31, 2013 Posted August 31, 2013 (edited) Looks great . Back when Indy was still cool,before the wings. Edited August 31, 2013 by 1930fordpickup
RancheroSteve Posted September 1, 2013 Posted September 1, 2013 Another cool build, Phil! I've got a partially built one in a box that I hope to tackle one day.
FordRodnKustom Posted September 1, 2013 Posted September 1, 2013 Nice job. Good to see one of these built up so well.
bbowser Posted September 2, 2013 Posted September 2, 2013 Great model! The demise of the front-engined roadster was becoming clear.
Sixties Sam Posted September 2, 2013 Posted September 2, 2013 Great looking model! I built one of those Lotus Ford kits back in the day. It was green with yellow trim, I believe. Sam
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