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Post by charleselan on Jan 31, 2020 18:07:18 GMT
I believe those to be examples of Dan Gurney expressing his absolute brilliance Carl. That is a wonderful film which I saw some years ago now and AJ's crash was pretty awful; brake failure or something mechanical wasn't it?
I have some great slot car scale models of Dan's winning cars from two of those Riverside races; a beautiful rendition of the Woods Bros Ford Galaxy in dark metallic red made by the superb and now defunct Revell/Monogram range; also the Plymouth Superbird in dark metallic blue, I think it was made by Carrera.
It is hard to come to terms with the fact that this truly great driver only ever won four F1 Grand Prix races and had no Indy 500 victories to his name. A fact that just blows a hole through the argument that you have to be a multiple GP winner to be a great. Then again there are fools out there who say that Jim Clark could have been the greatest ever if he had lived and won more championships, words fail me...............
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Post by René on Jan 31, 2020 23:48:53 GMT
I have this very cool 1967 Dan Gurney Mercury Cougar by Scalextric. Very detailed and great fun to drive.  |
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Post by Carl on Feb 1, 2020 4:59:33 GMT
I have this very cool 1967 Dan Gurney Mercury Cougar by Scalextric. Very detailed and great fun to drive. The Trans-Am was taken very seriously by manufacturers and most races had hard rubbing and bumping competitors off-line, especially by the rough-riding Bud Moore Mustang teammates Parnelli Jones and George Follmer, starting in 1969. Cougar was competitive in 1967 because of the greatness of Dan Gurney and Jones, but Ford may have decided that two divisions entered was one too many and its focus soon became Mustang, especially after Jerry Titus' success in 1967.
The next two seasons, Chevrolet came good and dominated thanks to Roger Penske's business and Mark Donohue's engineering prowess, plus bags of General Motors cash. Donohue won 10 of 13 races in 1968, a foreshadow of Team Penske's no quarter approach to SCCA professional racing, soon repeated with Porsche in the Can-Am.
Curiously, both car numbers resonate with other teams and drivers. #98 was a traditional early Shelby Cobra roadster number and was for many years Parnelli Jones' number driving for J.C. Agajanian at Indianapolis. Jones retained #15 in Trans-Am for his 1969-70 Bud Moore Mustang while teammate Follmer had #16. It may be wise not to argue with Parnelli Jones, a fierce competitor and the only rival AJ Foyt said he feared in a fistfight.
That's a beautiful model, and I suspect yours has Gurney's helmet correct in black or cobalt blue. 
Jones and his 1969 Bud Moore Mustang 
Jones at Indianapolis  Ken Miles at Riverside 1965  |
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Post by René on Feb 1, 2020 11:21:39 GMT
Carl, unforunately not (yet). It's a strange thing how they (in this case Scalextric) can make such a beautiful, accurate and detailed model and then 'forget' to paint the driver's helmet or overalls in the correct colours! Sometimes certain detail, logos or tobacco advertisement is missing on models due to legal issues but I cannot imagine this being the case here.  Anyway, it's relatively easy to correct this yourself even if Scalextric models are often quite fiddly to take apart. But it's great nonetheless that several manufacturers like Scalextric and the aforementioned Carrera and Revell make these classic US cars. There's even a manufacturer called Pioneer who make only American muscle cars! Scalextric Boss 302 Mustang |
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Post by charleselan on Feb 1, 2020 14:51:15 GMT
I had only recently returned to slot cars in the early '00's having been so impressed with the new Fly models that had become available. After purchasing a few of those including my all time favourite the Nurburgring Porsche 908/2 of Seppi and Brian Redman I had no idea that Scalextric had been woken up by making some fantastic scale model slot cars. One day I went into my then local model shop in the UK owned by an old friend from back in the mid 1970's who subsequently went onto owning a complete chain of stores. Having a browse I came across two amazing new models from Scalextric of the Parnelli Jones Bud Moore Boss Mustang (above) and the Penske Camaro of Mark Donohue. They were such stunning models I had to have them, just beautiful things and night and day peter than anything that I had seen from this manufacturer before. Later when well into the hobby by mid '00's i began buying quite a few models (too many really  ) on eBay and it was the time when making bids could be good and things could be bought at some very advantageous prices. The red Coca Cola Australian Boss Mustang of Alan Moffatt was one such purchase, another lovely looking car. One of my favourite Tans Am cars is the Plymouth Barracuda as driven by Dan and Swede Savage, there was a truly superb model of that which sadly I do not have, fabulous looking race car pure brute strength. |
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Post by René on Feb 3, 2020 17:03:20 GMT
Exactly the same for me JC. A return to slot cars in the early 2000's and now 20 years later a huge collection (too many  ) and still hooked!
The Nurburgring Porsche 908/2 of Seppi and Redman in that red/white livery is indeed one of the prettiest Classic Fly cars.
Scalextric made a huge step forward not that much later, I think with the introduction of the McLaren MP4/16 and Williams FW23. Then shortly after followed the muscle cars I think. All still great model cars.
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Post by charleselan on Feb 4, 2020 14:40:45 GMT
Exactly the same for me JC. A return to slot cars in the early 2000's and now 20 years later a huge collection (too many ) and still hooked!
The Nurburgring Porsche 908/2 of Seppi and Redman in that red/white livery is indeed one of the prettiest Classic Fly cars.
Scalextric made a huge step forward not that much later, I think with the introduction of the McLaren MP4/16 and Williams FW23. Then shortly after followed the muscle cars I think. All still great model cars.
Yes! René that was an amazing new direction for mass production slot car models. I could not believe it when I saw the Fly models in around 1998/9, most of them I seem to recall were of Ferrari 512S' and Porsche 917 at that time and they looked superb. The models produced by Scalextric before then were just try like in comparison. I also liked the fact that Fly tried to place the motors in the same location as the real car had their engines which was unique and did not go down well with the slot car purists. I am not in to it in the same way that you are with your beautiful scratch built cars and that amazing track, the idea was there originally but too many other things and interests get in the way. When all of these amazing new models were released I did get swept along and bought way too many, the other evening I was trying to remember what models i had actually purchased as all of them are packed away in year more boxes after my move to France. After moving to France 12 years ago I did continue buying cars but that has now calmed down to the odd one here and there now. By the way that Scalextric Mercury Cougar looks astonishingly good, but as Carl points out it really needs a nice rendition of Dan Gurney in the drivers seat; Scalextric really do let themselves down with the poor driver figures in many of the models released recently. |
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Post by René on Feb 4, 2020 17:01:06 GMT
Exactly the same for me JC. A return to slot cars in the early 2000's and now 20 years later a huge collection (too many ) and still hooked! The Nurburgring Porsche 908/2 of Seppi and Redman in that red/white livery is indeed one of the prettiest Classic Fly cars. Scalextric made a huge step forward not that much later, I think with the introduction of the McLaren MP4/16 and Williams FW23. Then shortly after followed the muscle cars I think. All still great model cars.
Yes! René that was an amazing new direction for mass production slot car models. I could not believe it when I saw the Fly models in around 1998/9, most of them I seem to recall were of Ferrari 512S' and Porsche 917 at that time and they looked superb. The models produced by Scalextric before then were just try like in comparison. I also liked the fact that Fly tried to place the motors in the same location as the real car had their engines which was unique and did not go down well with the slot car purists. I am not in to it in the same way that you are with your beautiful scratch built cars and that amazing track, the idea was there originally but too many other things and interests get in the way. When all of these amazing new models were released I did get swept along and bought way too many, the other evening I was trying to remember what models i had actually purchased as all of them are packed away in year more boxes after my move to France. After moving to France 12 years ago I did continue buying cars but that has now calmed down to the odd one here and there now. By the way that Scalextric Mercury Cougar looks astonishingly good, but as Carl points out it really needs a nice rendition of Dan Gurney in the drivers seat; Scalextric really do let themselves down with the poor driver figures in many of the models released recently. It's funny you mention trying to remember what cars you purchased over the years. I had the same experience when we moved house some 14 years ago. All my models (slot and static) had been in boxes for several years before since the previous move. I did buy new models in the meantime but most of the collection was out of sight.
When we moved to our current house and after renovating the old attic, there was finally the moment when I could open the boxes again to display all my models. And then I realised I actually forgot quite a few models that I owned! But it was great, like a never ending Xmas party! My wife was again shocked on how many of those little cars I actually have! |
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Post by charleselan on Feb 5, 2020 18:20:33 GMT
It is quite frightening really René when one realises how many one has purchased. I have to admit that it wasn't only slot car models that happened in this spending spree, it also went hand in hand with die cast models as well; Oh! the curse of eBay at the time  . |
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Post by chrisb on Feb 6, 2020 7:48:23 GMT
you with your models, me with my magazines, books, memorabilia and pictures, must get a bigger house
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Post by charleselan on Feb 6, 2020 17:20:19 GMT
Ha! ha! and you think it is only models we have Christopher . Our house isn't small by any degree but it is chock a block full which probably is more due to the fact that neither I nor the other half cannot get rid of anything, mind you having the contents of four different houses doesn't help either. |
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Post by René on Feb 9, 2020 10:42:02 GMT
By the way that Scalextric Mercury Cougar looks astonishingly good, but as Carl points out it really needs a nice rendition of Dan Gurney in the drivers seat; Scalextric really do let themselves down with the poor driver figures in many of the models released recently. Yes it's a great looking model and it runs fairly well also. Those American cars are always tail happy! As for the driver figure, Immense Miniatures do a great 'Dan Gurney' so I'm going to order that with a few other figures like Clark and Hill. Amazing how realistic they look.  |
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Post by robmarsh on May 12, 2020 17:52:23 GMT
Books, Diecasts, trains and models of all shapes and sizes and genre. I had a far bigger collection than I needed or indeed could handle but have got rid of a lot of it. I have brought books and models over here to the UK but plan to sell at least 80% of them once they arrive. I don't have the space to display them and the cash will come in handy for other things.
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Post by chrisb on May 12, 2020 18:58:21 GMT
ah that is sad Rob,
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Post by robmarsh on May 13, 2020 8:57:56 GMT
Thanks Chris. In some ways it is sad but I view it from the perspective that by buying a lot of those things I sacrificed other things such as holidays, travel etc and that was selfish. With the money I hopefully release then I can share experiences with my wife so she benefits as well. |
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) on eBay and it was the time when making bids could be good and things could be bought at some very advantageous prices. The red Coca Cola Australian Boss Mustang of Alan Moffatt was one such purchase, another lovely looking car.
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