My favorite is still the McLaren M21 the Jody Scheckter F2 car just looks right .
Pete
Yeah!!! Lovely bit of styling, especially that nosecone...
Posted 05 November 2009 - 21:17
My favorite is still the McLaren M21 the Jody Scheckter F2 car just looks right .
Pete
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I use a tiny little Casio Exilim 2.0 Mega Pixel that I purchased years ago at Doha Airport when these things came out. I'm usually surprised by the quality of the results considering, but in a big room with poor lighting, the tiny flash simply can't cope.
Posted 05 November 2009 - 22:09
Yes, it was a real gem - the only other one being in Stuttgart.Sold the Porsche F.1 car? Oh no!
Posted 05 November 2009 - 22:14
Yes, it was a real gem - the only other one being in Stuttgart.
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Anyone know who bought it, and where it's living now?
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This should really be in the 'Rubbish' thread, but I know it will appeal to Barry. Many years ago, when this car first appeared, I was a keen teenage slot racer. There wasn't a lot of commercially available stuff back then, if you wanted anything new or different, you had to make it yourself, and one guy in the Southport club (ARRA for any other old slot racers whose memories go back that far), made a very good Porsche 804 replica out of solid aluminium, when all polished up, it looked delightful. He cheated slightly by epoxying pieces of 3mm ali sheet together, but when the car was finished after a lot of hand filing and polishing, you couldn't see the joins. Walkden Fisher was the man responsible, and Charlie Fitzpatrick of fibreglass and later vac-formed bodyshell fame was in the same club. Walkden was a talented artist as well as a slot racer, he painted many of the covers for Model Maker magazine, and he also did many of those lovely cut-away drawings of cars boats and planes that appeared across the centre pages of Eagle comic for boys, he used to sign all of them with his name (Fisher) in the shape of a fish.
Posted 13 December 2009 - 10:02
Spent three days in Dublin this week including a track day at Mondello Park which unearthed a few surprises.......
PAR
Posted 13 December 2009 - 10:12
Captions would have been nice!
Correct me if I am wrong but the final photo of the white single seater is of the Mike Pilbeam constructed Wheatcroft F2/FAt car.
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De Tomaso Pantera left rear with the 956/962?
Roger Lund
Posted 13 December 2009 - 15:24
De Tomaso Pantera left rear with the 956/962?
Roger Lund
Posted 13 December 2009 - 15:57
That is why I wondered as the wing looked sufficiently different, from memory. I suspect most of the M1s survive.Roger see what you mean.....however it is the Stuck BMW M1 Procar PAR
Posted 13 December 2009 - 17:39
I also realise that this should be in the Rubbish Thread but I had to reply to this.
I have to correct you on the builder of this fine slot car, it was Chas Keeling who built the ATS, not a Porsche (the aluminum finish maybe confused you after all this time) although you are absolutley right that Walkden Fisher and Charlie Fitzpatrick were also club members at the time and they also built some great models.
Charlie Fitzpatrick along with his son Ian is still very active with his Betta & Classic slot car business although sadly Walkden Fisher died many years ago. Dave Jones a fellow ARRA member and protege of Walkden Fisher still produces fine slot car bodyshells as well as wonderful aviation and motor racing paintings to this day.
When I carved a 1/32 scale master of John Cobb's Napier Railton I was very fortunate to be able to use Walkden's personal copy of the Profile Publications booklet courtesy of Dave Jones and I have a fine original painting of Louis Wagner at Savannah in 1908 complete with the "fish" signature.
The ATS still exists and Chas is still active in the slot racing scene to this day. At the 2005 Walkden Fisher Memorial Race Meeting at Pendles Slot Racing in Colne I photographed the ATS and talked to Chas about his scatchbuilding techniques.
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Once again I half apologise for this going a little off topic but that does seem to be par for the course on TNF these days so I don't feel too guilty.
David
Posted 14 December 2009 - 11:47
There were slot car racing clubs all over the place Tony, the one you had could well have come from Southport, but it wasn't the Southport track that David and I remember. That was a very solid structure on a heavy wood base. It was originally a rail track in the 1950s, the cars ran along a raised rail that carried the current to drive them, and it was one of the last tracks in the Country to convert to slot.
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I note the search for an ex motor museum in the shape of the Patrick Collection... I am also searching for an ex museum but in Long Island, NY not in the UK so I am necessarily dependent on info from those who liver nearer than I do, as I live in Scotland!!
The museum in question was at the airstrip at Mattituck, Long Island and was the personal collection of the guy who owned and ran the airstrip.
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Fantastic service!!! Just called Teledyne Mattituck on Long Island and spoke with Parker's daughter in law Cindy. Parker is now elderly and frail but still very interested in things, so I hope to speak to him or his son Jay soon. Apparently a lot of the collection went to the Fairbanks Motor Museum in Alaska. Thanks again for the info.
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Five Estonia and Esttec cars will be soon exhibited in Autoworld museum in Brussels: three Estonia 21.10's, one Estonia 22, and one Esttec 894. This exhibition is said to be opened on June, 21 and to last about two weeks. So, if anyone is going to visit Autoworld at that time, please take and post here some photos of them (Estonia 22 especially, since this is the only car of this type ever built). Thanks in advance!
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