Whiffed F1 and sports cars?

[MilitaryAircraft101]

You a Lotus man Mr. Spackman? 

[PR19_Kit]

For the moment I am, thanks to my birthday pressie book, but I'm really a Vauxhall guy at heart. Plus I happen to have the 33 kit to hand.....

I once had an interview for a job at Lotus but the hours they expected you to work did not equate with the stupidly small pay Mr. Chapman was offering, so I declined. 

[jcf]

Along with time-warped and cross-teamed paint schemes, how about engine swaps or even more
turbine engined cars? Or more fan cars like the Brabham BT 46 or Chapparal 2J.

[PR19_Kit]

More turbine engined F1 cars I'd really love to see, I was at Brands Hatch in '71 when the Lotus 56B (the only turbine engined F1 car to run anywhere) utterly destroyed the rest of the field in the soaking wet practice sessions, but race day was dry and its slow throttle response dropped it back to 7th or 8th. The sound was AMAZING!

Fan cars would be great too, the FIA and the CanAm administrators killed them off just as they did with turbine cars, and neither idea was fully developed.

In various motor sport magazines there have been features on how would F1 and Sports cars have developed if there weren't such restrictive regulations in place and I'm sure that 4WD turbine engined fan cars would be one route they could have travelled.

I have 1/43 kits of the Lotus 56 and 56B, the STP-Paxton, the early Rover-BRM car and the Howmet TX turbine sports car, one of which crashed into the Druids Corner bank right below my feet in 1968 when it's waste-gate jammed full closed!

[PR19_Kit]

Resurrecting this thread after 11 years  I put my money where my mouth was and bought a Policar Lotus 72 slot racer white kit, the current state-of-the-art 1/32 scale F1 slot car. (But they've just announced a BRM P160 which I rather like.........)

In the box it looked like this.

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But after some fiddly assembly and paint it came out like this.

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They do make most of them already painted in the red-gold Gold Leaf scheme or the black-gold John Player Special scheme, as well as a few private owner ones too, but they're already assembled so there's no fun in building them.

My plan is for the 72 to end up like this.

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I'm not quite sure which shape side number to use yet, but the decals will take some time to draw up as they may need 2-3 layers to show up well enough. And I know Jim Clark had died by the time the 72 appeared but he'd have been unbeatable in one, just as he was in everything else. 

I might say that the 'serious racing' slot racers (read 'Slot racing JMNs'......) are HORRIFIED that I should even think of doing it, but do I care? 

[su27rules]

  

[zenrat]

 

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[PR19_Kit]

I've not seen either of those!

That blue '5' in the top book is obviously a 1970 Tyrell, but that's not Jackie Stewart driving, nor is it the late Francois Cevert, his team-mate at the time.

[perttime]

They are from a piece of fiction. The bottom one is just the Finnish translation (and I like that style of car). I vaguely recall that the book involved F-1 racing and beautiful women.

[PR19_Kit]

Most racing books involve beautiful women, they wouldn't be racing books if they didn't.     

[zenrat]

I've read a lot of Alistair MacLean.  Probably read that one but I don't remember it.
If it follows his usual structure there will be a character who you think is dodgy but who is revealed to actually be a heroic undercover type.