paddy
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While in-between builds i was looking through some web pictures for 1968 pit stops like you do 
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My thinking was my next build would be an F1 car and while F1 cars today are clinically clean and they are built and maintained in a surgical environment, back in the day i used to go to Brands hatch Circuit when i was 10 in 1970 with my older brother to watch the bike racing and the pits were a steeply slopping grass field. Bikes and riders would splash and slide through the mud, through a tunnel under the track and emerge on a slip road near the start. The relevance here was when building a 1968 model of a racing car, would it be a spit clean showroom model or was it a busy used example. I remember on one occasion the wife of Phil Read (7 times world FIM champ) in all here finery approached my brother for a lift up a field to Phil Reads car/van/pits and we actually got stuck in the mud in my brothers Morris 1100 and she had to decamp into the mud...... Things were very different in those days
These two pictures show the Matra Simca i want to build, and a Brabham in the pits at the Nuremburg GP in 1968
Hardly state of the art facilities
and if you want to get to the underside ? well thats easy....
This has made up my mind that my build will need to be in a slightly "used" condition.
on a completely different tack i found these pictures froma guy building a 1:8 monogram E-Type jag which i thought at first was a real car
maybe i was a bit hasty scrapping my build of this model and maybe this guy came across the same problems i came across ?
.My thinking was my next build would be an F1 car and while F1 cars today are clinically clean and they are built and maintained in a surgical environment, back in the day i used to go to Brands hatch Circuit when i was 10 in 1970 with my older brother to watch the bike racing and the pits were a steeply slopping grass field. Bikes and riders would splash and slide through the mud, through a tunnel under the track and emerge on a slip road near the start. The relevance here was when building a 1968 model of a racing car, would it be a spit clean showroom model or was it a busy used example. I remember on one occasion the wife of Phil Read (7 times world FIM champ) in all here finery approached my brother for a lift up a field to Phil Reads car/van/pits and we actually got stuck in the mud in my brothers Morris 1100
and she had to decamp into the mud...... Things were very different in those days These two pictures show the Matra Simca i want to build, and a Brabham in the pits at the Nuremburg GP in 1968
Hardly state of the art facilities
and if you want to get to the underside ? well thats easy....
This has made up my mind that my build will need to be in a slightly "used" condition.
on a completely different tack i found these pictures froma guy building a 1:8 monogram E-Type jag which i thought at first was a real car
maybe i was a bit hasty scrapping my build of this model and maybe this guy came across the same problems i came across ?
