Post by David Lawson on May 25, 2013 0:55:08 GMT -5
Back in about 2005 when Mac Pinches came up with the idea of "Earlybirds", an open race meeting for retro slot cars in the pre-war and pre 1961 periods there were six members of the Southend Slot Racing Club keen to enter.
I was tasked with the job of building cars for everyone and chose one of my all time favourite cars, the 1954 Mercedes-Benz W196 and set about building 6 identical cars.
I set up a miniature Rennabteilung in my model-making room and had separate parts stores and build bays for each car and scratchbuilt each chassis as well as modifying and detailing each Charlie Fitzpatrick "Classic" bodyshell.
I severely underestimated the task and although I just managed to prepare all the cars just in time for the event I made myself ill and so never got to the race myself although my five team-mates did and enjoyed themselves so it was worth all the effort.
The team cars lined up on my old home track before the race at the Wolverhampton track.
David
I was tasked with the job of building cars for everyone and chose one of my all time favourite cars, the 1954 Mercedes-Benz W196 and set about building 6 identical cars.
I set up a miniature Rennabteilung in my model-making room and had separate parts stores and build bays for each car and scratchbuilt each chassis as well as modifying and detailing each Charlie Fitzpatrick "Classic" bodyshell.
I severely underestimated the task and although I just managed to prepare all the cars just in time for the event I made myself ill and so never got to the race myself although my five team-mates did and enjoyed themselves so it was worth all the effort.
The team cars lined up on my old home track before the race at the Wolverhampton track.
David
