Originally posted by teegeefla
A E Anderson -
did you ever build that model? If so, what did you use for a baseline model?
No, unfortunately.
As I got deeper into my passion for building Indy cars, picking up several other model car builders along the way in the late 1960's, we determined that our efforts had to have some criteria--as we were displaying our builds in the front show windows of a very large hobby shop here, each year, from May 1-June 1:
1) Any car we built for our display had to be one that had actually taken the green flag for the 500 mile race.
2) Our first concentration was to replicate as many 500 mile race winners as possible.
3) Second, we replicated as many pole-winning cars as we could, along with a special interest in "milestone" cars (those that broke the various speed barriers (100, 150, 200mph qualfifying speeds for example).
4) The technically interesting cars, the odd, the unusual.
This window display project, and the passion for building these models began in 1966, continued through 1983, after which that hobby shop closed. At the peak of this display, about 1979, there were 5 of us from Lafayette involved in this: Myself, Arthur DeCamp (son of John DeCamp, for years the statistician for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Radio Network and the 500 Mile Race Broadcast), Alan Bingaman (now deceased), and Mark Wick (newspaper photographer and photo editor for Carl Hungness Publications in the late 1970's).
But, it would have been fun, and an interesting technical exercise to have built the Trackburner Turbine!
Art