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    Dock Green

    in 7mm+ modelling

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    Ah well, I'll be nowhere near Worthing Chaz, so will have missed my chance! Still, I've really enjoyed watching the layout develop through this excellent thread and thank you for taking the time and effort to update it. If you have a chance a small video of the layout's final appearance would be good! :)

     

    Keith

    Tom Foster Weathering - Bespoke Service

    in Smaller Suppliers

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    Only found this thread a few days back Tom and have really enjoyed going through it - absolutely superb weathering work on display.

     

    I have to agree that the latest A4 is really stunning - could I ask that when you say 'weathered from a photo dated July 1938', is that a rare colour photo from that time, or are you able to interpret weathering from black and white pics?

     

    Keith

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    Dock Green

    in 7mm+ modelling

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    I'm gutted that I'll miss seeing your marvellous layout 'for real' now Chaz, but like others have said I've thoroughly enjoyed following your thread and thank you for taking the time to post and allow us all to see it develop.

     

    I do wish I had both the cash and space to give it a new home, but I can only hope to win the lottery for that to happen.  :smile_mini2:

     

    Looking forward to your next project!

     

    Keith

    For those interested in old cars.

    in Wheeltappers

    Posted

    Thanks keefr2, i mean just leave the original 12" inch diam' on the front they are 155.R x 12 C. i can't really fit any wider profile ones on the front unless i fit spacers, but there's plenty of room under the arches in the diameter size for a bigger diameter tyre but that would just make it sit up higher and look narrower, i'm just thinking would it be legal and work ok with wider tyres on the back. I'm dreading driving it on any motorway and the thought of the 40 tonners rushing past makes me shudder...it's all old roads for me with this thing....i should be able to get the 70 miles from here to N Wales in a week for our annual hols' at least we can brew up and kip in it on the way  :no: .

    Don't know about that tbh Bob, I think my son's Mazda RX8 had different profile tyres front to back, but the wheel diameters were the same.

     

    Keith

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    For those interested in old cars.

    in Wheeltappers

    Posted · Edited by keefr2

    On my way to my caravan this afternoon I was confronted with a real blast from my past. Just turned out into a main road and coming towards me was a Morris 1100 mk2, not just any 1100. Pretty much identical to my first car, looking to be Snowberry white rather than Glacier white which followed on, I believe.

    Seemed very original as well, looking a bit tatty around the edges, some rust on the rear arch and boy could they rust. G reg so a bit newer than mine which was an F, bought with a small inheritance from my grandparents, mine was quite badly rusted around the front subframe mountings when I traded it in at around 5 years old, shame really it was a lovely comfortable car.

    An 1100 was my first car too, in RAF blue/grey, with twin Strombergs (or S.U.'s, memory fading!) & a 6ft long fibreglass 'whip' radio aerial in the nearside rear wing! Bought in the early summer just after I passed my test, I thought it was the best car in the world! But when we started getting some rain the interior started to get a really damp, musty smell. Investigations showed that under the carpet the front passenger floor consisted of a piece of soggy plywood & a couple of damp Daily Mirrors...!!

     

    I learnt a bit about buying cars from that....!!

     

    Keith

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    in Wheeltappers

    Posted · Edited by keefr2

    Er, not possible since the late 70s and ground effects....nothing to do with the driver

    Yeh, I know that's the theory, but I'd still like to see them take that Nordschleife yump flat out! (and Hamilton et al are still prima donnas...!!)

     

    Occassionally, modern GP drivers do get the chance to drive the cars from the golden era, a few years ago David Coulthard drove one of Jim Clark's Lotus 49s and Lewis drove one of Stirling Moss's '50s Mercedes GP cars.

     

    I enjoy Martin Brundle's drives of classic F1 cars on Sky's F1 channel - he recently drove his 50th different one, Mike Hawthorn's Ferrari 246 (I believe they said it was the actual World Championship winning car) - & he did the report dressed as Hawthorn did in white shirt & bow tie!

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    in Wheeltappers

    Posted

    There was an elderly couple around the corner from my son who had a lovely turquoise 111 4 door that was kept in lovely clean condition, that I saw regularly when walking my son's dogs. Then it didn't move for ages and was getting to look ever more tired, so I assume something must have happened to the gent who was the only one I'd ever seen driving it. Now builders have moved in & are renovating the bungalow - & there's a skip where the Rover used to be. Always strikes me as being a bit sad....

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    in Wheeltappers

    Posted · Edited by keefr2

    A clip from the Ford promo film, "Nine days In Summer". When F1, and it's drivers,had much larger goolies.

     

    Quite a few well known names on the film production team too.

     

     

    The full film is available on Vimeo

     

    Gawd, I remember watching that at a motor club film night eons ago!! I'd love to see Hamilton or any of the other of today's prima donna 'racing drivers' yumping their cars like that...!!

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    in Wheeltappers

    Posted · Edited by keefr2

    Can't remember names but there were only one or two regular Avengers rallying as privateers.

     

    IIRC Chris Sclater had one, but that was a works supported car, & I think Andy Dawson built & ran one for CCC magazine. Memory might be wrong on the latter though...

     

    I had a 'replica' Avenger Tiger, fully prepared that had been rallied for years before I got it. I only did a couple of road rallies before writing it off (& not on an event either!) There were quite a few club & international privateers running Avengers back then, competition parts were readily available and not that much more than Ford bits. 

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    in Wheeltappers

    Posted

    Spotted these last week in 'The Village' Portmeirion. N. Wales.

     

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    Spotted one just like that heading east on the M4 when driving home from Hampshire on Sunday - might have been the same little beauty - one of my favourite ever cars in it's best colour scheme (only IMO of course!!)

     

    And Nidge - saw my spot of the century when driving up to Hampshire - a grey Lambo Diablo - fantastic looking thing, & I'm 99.9 % certain the first I've ever seen in the wild!

     

    Keith

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