This will be the 1960's GB general discussion area.

Is the use of adapting Airfix Quick Builds allowed?
The Ford Capri  Mk1 was launched in 1969 in the European market, so would this be accepted?

Quote from: McColm on January 22, 2024, 09:10:33 AMIs the use of adapting Airfix Quick Builds allowed?
The Ford Capri  Mk1 was launched in 1969 in the European market, so would this be accepted?

Yes it would

CBE

The 1932 Ford with Boeing 502 turbine engine built
in 1962 by Boeing Gas Turbine Division engineer
Len Williams. Currently in the collection of the LeMay
Museum in Tacoma, Washington.

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Hmmmm.... 
Emerson Fittipaldi's double engined VW was designed, built and driven in 1969. There may have been other versions earlier on???

Charlie Hill and Pork Zartman's Filthy Forty Willys Gasser sometime in the sixties.


Ramchargers '65 Dodge AWB car 1965 or 66.

Yeeeees, all excellent cars to model, but they aren't Whiffs......................

I did think about the Jaguar XJ13, using the E-Type coupe as a donor. This might be out of my comfort zone when it comes to the mechanics and accuracy but a kitbash with the XJ220  might be a better option.
So I'll stick with the Jaguar E-Type panel van.

Quote from: PR19_Kit on January 23, 2024, 05:37:10 AMYeeeees, all excellent cars to model, but they aren't Whiffs......................

Examples for inspiration not duplication. 

And of course, never forget that the Sixties were groovy, baby...  

Is that the Merry Pranksters bus?

Quote from: jcf on January 23, 2024, 09:54:51 AM

Quote from: PR19_Kit on January 23, 2024, 05:37:10 AMYeeeees, all excellent cars to model, but they aren't Whiffs......................

Examples for inspiration not duplication.

Did anybody build a Hillman Imp with a monster engine?

Quote from: perttime on January 24, 2024, 04:06:01 AMDid anybody build a Hillman Imp with a monster engine?

Oh yes, there was one running in the UK Super Saloon series with an F2 chassis hidden under it, but with a Chevy small block in there too. 

Quote from: zenrat on January 24, 2024, 03:33:50 AMIs that the Merry Pranksters bus?

Yes. There are better pics around, but I chose that one because I'm sure it's genuine: there are a lot of replicas knocking around.


I've been trying to think what might consititute a distinctively British "hippiemobile". The trouble is that by far the most common choices, the VW Beetle and Minibus ("Rabbit" in the US), were also the most common in America. I'd be amazed if there wern't hippiefied Ford Transits and Bedford CFs, but I can't find pictures of any. Probably a few old buses/coaches got converted too.

I did once see a vehicle at a biker rally that was a Luton*-bodied 7.5 tonner (Bedford & ex-Post Office, IIRC) with an entire VW camper van body fibreglassed onto the top of it! The VW's roof was raised for that essential bit of extra space, of course...

*For non-Brits, a Luton body is an oversized, lightly built, cargo box fitted to a standard truck chassis. Much beloved of furniture removal companies and anybody else who tends to run out of space well before they hit the vehicle's weight limit. They tend to be tall, and explode like eggshells when the driver forgets just how tall they are and merrily drives under a low bridge...

Most SAAB Draken models were flying in '60s.
In late '50s it was offered to  West German Air Force, the Royal Australian Air Force and the Swiss Air Force.
It was offered to Belgium in 1967, Argentina in 1968, Venezuela in 1969.


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