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1/32 resin slot car Citroen DS 19 Monte Carlo rally 1962 driven to 107th place by Pierre Maurel & Claude Courbe. A2M resin bodyshell, PCS32 chassis and ali rims with resin inserts.
Gaydon, British Motor Museum
The Metro was launched just before the 1980 Motor Show. It was intended to be the 'new Mini', except BL kept the ever green Mini in production and made the Metro a rather bigger car or 'supermini'.
In engineering terms, the Metro was similar to previous small Austins. The three door hatchback bodyshell, however, was all new with styling developed in the Longbridge design studio.
This then top-line Metro 1.3 HLS was one of 300 pre-production models built in May 1980 and formed the centrepiece of Austin Rover’s stand at the 1980 Motor Show. Not long after it was formally presented to the Trust's collection.
2014 "Ford Mustang" in the paddocks of the 2014 CRAA classic race in Aarhus.
Driver: Henrik Ziegler (DK)
Racing class: Auto-G DTC
Race number: 666
Race results in 2014 event:
Training (fri.): 16 (of 18)
Qualifying (sat.): 19 (of 19)
Heat 1 (sat): 12 (of 19)
Heat 2 (sun.): 15 (of 18)
Heat 3, final (sun.): 16, RET (of 18)
Driver of "the beast" (car 666), Henrik Ziegler, lining up for a publicity photo shoot in front of his car for his sponsors Hertz rental.
Photo taken after heat 1.
DTC stands for Danish Thundersport Championship. The cars follow the CCR MkI and MkII regulations. They consist of a chassis built by Performance AutoMotive Scandinavian AB (PASAB) fitted with a clip-on bodyshell. The engines are 5,7 litre V8s, delivering 445 hp. The available bodyshells change a little from year to year, but in 2014 there were 3 options: Ford Mustang, Chevrolet Camaro and Dodge Challenger.
Each race weekend consists of a free practice, qualifying and 3 heats, of which the last one is considered the "final"
After heat one, the top 8 will normally get reversed for the heat 2 starting grid, which often causes interesting results and is a guarantee for highly entertaining racing.
Races take place mostly in Denmark, but with occasional visits abroad. 2 races per year take place on street circuits: this one in Aarhus at the CRAA and one in Copenhagen during the Historic Grand Prix there.
Most drivers are danish, but there's always a few norwegians in the pack as well.
The driver line-up is incredibly mixed and features star drivers (past and present) like Jan Magnussen, "Super John" Nielsen, Ronnie Bremer and Casper Elgaard alongside some of Denmark's finest young racing talents with full backing from big teams, as well as a bunch of privateers, who primarily take part for the fun of racing.
At the end of each season, a driver's 3 worst results get discarded to get the final overall result.
The DTC class is widely regarded as the pinnacle of racing on danish soil and is followed intensely by media as well as spectators.
There have been some voices against the DTC being included in the CRAA, saying that this class is anything but "classic racing", which is, of course, true, but no class causes the stands to be as packed as DTC, so it certainly helps attract people (and media interest)
DTC may not be "classic racing", but it plays a major part in making the annual CRAA event so successful.
W111
Chassis n° 111 027 12 002 266
- Mercedes-Benz's flagship model
- Matching numbers (Chassis, Engine and Gearbox)
- Only two owners and 71,800 kilometres from new
- Unrestored and outstandingly original
- Fully documented from new; all invoices available
Bonhams : The Zoute Sale
Important Collectors' Motor Cars
The Zoute Grand Prix Gallery
Estimated : € 260.000 - 280.000
Sold for € 258.750
Zoute Grand Prix Car Week 2025
Knokke - Zoute
België - Belgium
October 2025
'Exclusive' is a much bandied-about word in the classic car world, but it is a most apt description of the Mercedes-Benz 280 SE 3.5. Why? Because at $13,500 in 1970 its price was not only $3,500 more than that of the equivalent Mercedes-Benz saloon but also more than double that of a Cadillac Deville Coupé! Commonplace it was not.
The 3.5-litre version of the 280 SE typifies the resurgence of larger-engined Mercedes-Benz models that began in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when the progressive easing of fiscal constraints, which had dissuaded customers from buying cars with large capacity engines, encouraged the German manufacturer to offer bigger, more potent power units. Thus the ultra-luxurious 280 SE Coupé/Cabriolet and 300 SEL saloon were the models chosen by Mercedes-Benz to launch its magnificent new 3.5-litre V8 engine in September 1969. An over-square design featuring a cast-iron block and aluminium-alloy cylinder heads, each equipped with a single overhead camshaft, this all-new, state-of-the-art power unit produced 200bhp courtesy of Bosch electronic fuel injection and transistorised ignition.
The new V8 engine had particularly smooth running characteristics and endowed the 280 SE 3.5s with performance superior to that of many out-and-out sports cars. Thus equipped, the Coupé/Cabriolet was good for 125mph (200km/h) with 60mph (97km/h) reachable in 9.5 seconds, a substantial improvement on the six-cylinder version's figures. As befitted top-of-the-range luxury models, the 280 SE 3.5 Coupé and Cabriolet came equipped with automatic transmission, power windows, and a stereo radio as standard.
Although the equivalent SEL saloon used the 'New Generation' bodyshell, the 280 SE Coupé and Cabriolet kept the elegant coachwork that had debuted back in 1960/1961 on the 220 SE. Nevertheless, there had been some refinements made: the radiator shell was lower and wider, with a correspondingly flatter front end to the bonnet, a characteristic that has led to enthusiasts referring to these face-lifted cars as 'flat radiator' models, while the bumpers were now fitted with rubber strips. Significantly, the 280 SE 3.5 was to be the final model featuring this long-established and much admired body style. It was truly Mercedes-Benz's flagship model, representing status, luxury, and reliability. Only 1,232 Cabriolets were built, and today these last-of-the-line classics are highly sought after by discerning Mercedes-Benz collectors.
Offered with every single piece of paperwork accumulated since it left the Stuttgart factory on 21st August 1970, together with its original instruction manuals, this is without question one of the most fully documented cars Bonhams Cars has ever seen, and prospective purchasers should not miss the opportunity to inspect its exceptionally comprehensive history. A European car from new, this Mercedes-Benz 280 SE 3.5 Cabriolet was delivered new to Hamburg and remained in that city until 2025, enjoying only thwo owners in all that time while covering a relatively low 71,800 kilometres, which are believed to be correct. There is a list of the owners on file. The accompanying Mercedes-Benz Ausstattung reveals that this car was originally finished in white with a light red leather interior, and that it left the factory equipped with individual seats, seatbelts, fog lamps, halogen lighting, and a dark blue convertible hood. The leather of the interior and the carpets are in original, unrestored and very good condition.
According to our vendor, the Mercedes is highly original, unmolested and believed to be accident-free - while benefiting from a new soft-top. Its most recent service was carried out in 2024 and the car is said to be 'on the button'.
A rare and powerful four-seat open tourer, in a delightful colour scheme, this top-of-the-range Mercedes-Benz 280 SE 3.5 Cabriolet is one of the finest currently available.
Ford Anglia body shell in the sales corral, it did find a new owner...
I took a trek up the highway to Red Deer for their annual Automotive Flea Market... Not nearly as big as anything in the eastern part of the continent (I so miss times spent at the Barrie Auto Flea Market *sigh*), but still a fun day...
A series of photographs documenting the release of GB Railfreight's Class 92, 92 044 "Couperin" from the Wabtec Brush works at Loughborough. 044 had spent exactly 14 months there for overhaul, reliability mods and new wheelsets. The assisting locomotive was a fellow Brush Traction machine, Class 60, 60 002 "Graham Farish 50th Anniversary 1970-2020".
The 60 had also been out of traffic for more than a year after a turbo fire. The Covid-19 pandemic had delayed repairs and then some additional mods were done as well as its immaculate repaint - the first GBRf loco repainted at DB Cargo's Toton depot.
This was the 60's first working for GBRf after its long spell in Toton and also its first run on the main line sporting its recently received new name commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Graham Farish.
This was also the first time two of GB Railfreight's Brush "cousins" - the Class 60 and Class 92 - had been together. The locos share a common bodyshell design, built by Procor in Wakefield, and have other similar components.
Potentially most historically of all, though - with the subsequent announcement the Brush Traction works are due to close by the end of the year - there's a good chance this was the last time a Class 60 will visit the place where the 100-strong class were built in 1989-1993.
GB's sole active grey 92 had lost its tunnel rings and Crewe Electric depot plaques whilst in Brush, but there are rumours of a new livery to come in due course. However, that won't be before it gets back to earning some coin for its owners (and DB!) with a brief visit to Crewe for a test run, before heading to Dollands Moor to resume tunnel duties.
60 002 ran from Toton as 0Z60 08:45 Toton TMD to Loughborough Brush, then moved 92 044 to Crewe ETD on 0Z61 09:58 Loughborough Brush to Crewe ETD, before the 60 then ran on solo to resume biomass duties on 0Z62 13:09 Crewe ETD to Tuebrook Sidings.
In Denmark the ADO16 bore the Morris Marina name. The MG models were sold as the MG Sports Sedan there, as it was in North America from 1962, and was available with a two-door bodyshell that would not be available in the UK until 1968.
Slot car Porsche 911 RS 1974 East African Safari Rally driven by Björn Waldegård & Hans Thorszelius. MRRC body-shell, MRRC Sebring chassis & slimline motor, ali rims & resin inserts.
1/32 slot car renault Dauphine Gordini c.1962 track car. A2M resin bodyshell and modified Scalextric chassis with a Mabuchi motor.
Plenty of patronage for sister Class 313s 313055 & 313054 as they roll into Harringay with the 11.13 Hertford North to London Kings Cross on August 1st 2015. Using the same design of bodyshell the 313s were the genesis for the 507s that followed them from BREL York in 1978.
The build to this design which encompassed the Class 313/314/315/507 & 508s eventually totalled 755 individual cars and kept the production line at York Works busy until 1982.
At many times in their history Triumph offered a large number of variations on a small number of basic designs.
Here the Herald formed the basis of the Vitesse, and the 2000 & 2.5 used the same bodyshell.
All the registrations are Coventry issues.
No trace of LDU465F from August 1967.
PKV556H was actually a Triumph 2000, 1992cc last taxed on 1 March 1985.
No trace of PKV537H which like the above an issue of August 1969.
MWK669G was a Triumph Vitesse 1998cc last taxed on 1 January 1994. The registration was an issue of August 1968.
Peugeot 205 'Look' 1.0 L. After the 1.0L engine gave up, I got MMC to fit a secondhand 1360cc unit from a Citroen AX GT. I fitted the genuine Peugeot wheel arch extensions and side mouldings, despite being told by Morrison Motors that it could not be done to a non GTi bodyshell. Brian sourced the front and rear valances, the Devil exhaust and secondhand alloys. I refurbished the alloys and Brian fitted the Renault Clio rear wiper arm.
1/32 slot car renault Dauphine Gordini c.1962 track car. A2M resin bodyshell and modified Scalextric chassis with a Mabuchi motor.
DRS Brush/GM Class 57 'Bodysnatcher' number 57 307 'LADY PENELOPE' seen stabled at Carlisle Railway Station on the West Coast Mainline. This locomotive used the bodyshell of 47 225.
1/32 resin slot car Ford Falcon Sprint c.1964 in SCCA livery. Modified GTM resin kit with resin inserts.
D1705 built as a Class 47 with a difference. A 47 bodyshell and a Sulzer 12LVA24-type engine, resulted in a Class 48 classification. Refitted with a standard engine in 1969, this turned her the loco into a 47.
Sparrowhawk is seen here on the GCR
68153 is a Sentinel CE shunting engine built for the LNER, who classed it as Class Y1/2, in the late 1920s. It has spent the past few years being overhauled; these photos are of its bodyshell.
This photo shows one of the crew seats.
A closer view of GB Railfreight's rebuilt class 69 diesel locomotive 69 004 in its mock-1980s British Rail Research Department rail blue & red livery approaching platform 5 at Clapham Junction in charge of the 4Y19 Mountfield to Southampton Western Docks gypsum train. In all fairness this non-prototypical livery does seem to fit rather nicely on the bodyshell of 69 004 with the BR double-arrow logos applied on the cabsides setting this one-off livery style to this new breed of British diesel locomotive perfectly.
In 1990 Greater Manchester PTE exhibited a prototype bodyshell of one half of a Metrolink light rail vehicle beneath Manchester Piccadilly station. The bodyshell was built by Officine Casertane in Caserta, Italy (part of the Firema Consortium) and was originally painted in Greater Manchester PTE's orange and white livery. It was subsequently repainted in Metrolink light grey, dark grey and aquamarine livery, numbered 1000 and named The Larry Sullivan. It joined the collection of vehicles at the Museum of Transport, Greater Manchester in 1992 and was photographed at the museum on 21 October 2018.
1/32 resin slot car Iso Grifo A3C Bizzarrini Le Mans 1964. Driven to 14th place by Pierre Noblet & Edgar Berney. Modified GTM resin body and chassis.
The VAZ-2101 is a compact sedan car (small class, passenger car, model 1 in Soviet classification) produced by AvtoVAZ and introduced in 1970. The estate version was known as the VAZ-2102. VAZ had been founded in the mid-1960s as a collaboration between Fiat and the Soviet government, and the 2101 was its first product. Better known as the Lada outside the former Soviet Union, the 2101 is a re-engineered version of the Fiat 124 tailored for the nations of the Eastern Bloc, but was widely exported to the West as a budget "no-frills" car. Although the facelifted VAZ-2105, 2104 & 2107 versions largely replaced it in the West in the early 1980s, it was still produced for the domestic market as late as 1988.
Known as the Zhiguli within the Soviet Union, the main differences between the VAZ-2101 and the Fiat 124 are the use of thicker gauge steel for the bodyshell, an overhead camshaft engine (in place of the original Fiat OHV unit), and the use of aluminium drum brakes on the rear wheels in place of disc brakes. Early versions of the car featured a starting handle for cranking the engine manually should the battery go flat in Siberian winter conditions, and an auxiliary fuel pump.
AvtoVAZ were forbidden from selling the car in competing markets alongside Fiat 124; however, exports to Western European nations began in 1974 when the 124 was discontinued in favour of Fiat's newer 131 Mirafiori model. The 2101 was sold in export markets as the Lada 1200, Lada 1300 and Lada 1200S until 1989; it was sold in the United Kingdom from May 1974, until the arrival of the Riva in 1983. It was the first Lada to be sold in the United Kingdom.
1/32 resin slot car Aston Martin DB2 Le Mans 1951. Driven to 7th place by Reg Parnell & David Hampshire. Proto Slot resin kit with slot classic chassis.
1/32 slot car Ferrari 250LM Reims 12hr race c.1964. Driven to 1st place by Graham Hill & Joakim Bonnier. Airfix bodyshell and Scalextric chassis with rear mounted transverse Mabuchi motor to allow a full depth interior.
1/32 slot car Mazda MX-5 in bespoke BRSCC livery. Resin PP bodyshell, Scalextric chassis with Mabuchi motor.
1/32 resin Triumph Spitfire Mk2 c.1965 in SCCA livery. Modified PSR resin bodyshell with PCS32 chassis.
1/32 resin slot car Cooper T39 Bobtail Le Mans 1956. Driven by E Hugus & J Bentley. Hunaudieres Model Decals resin body with Slot Classic chassis.
1/32 resin slot car Lancia LC1 Le Mans 1982. Driven by Michele Alboreto, Teo Fabi & Rolf Stommelen (DNF). Resin body kit from Hunaudieres Models with PCS32 chassis and Slot It wheels/inserts.
The world may consider the Volkswagen Golf GTi as the worlds most influential Hot Hatchback, but it wasn't the first. That distinction went to the Chrysler Sunbeam. A Talbot bodyshell powered by 155 of Chryslers finest Brake-Horsepowers, producing an astonishing top speed of 125mph and a 0-60mph of 8.3 seconds.
It truly was the first of the many practical but powerful cars that would come to shape motoring in the 1980's, killing off the traditional sports car and giving new meaning to the anarchistic times just around the corner. More often than not you'd find Hot Hatchbacks in the hands of hoodlums who would use them for Ram-Raiding Supermarkets and generally causing mischief. So much so that eventually insurance rates on cars such as these were forced higher so as to deter youths from buying them.
The world may consider the Volkswagen Golf GTi as the worlds most influential Hot Hatchback, but it wasn't the first. That distinction went to the Chrysler Sunbeam. A Talbot bodyshell powered by 155 of Chryslers finest Brake-Horsepowers, producing an astonishing top speed of 125mph and a 0-60mph of 8.3 seconds.
It truly was the first of the many practical but powerful cars that would come to shape motoring in the 1980's, killing off the traditional sports car and giving new meaning to the anarchistic times just around the corner. More often than not you'd find Hot Hatchbacks in the hands of hoodlums who would use them for Ram-Raiding Supermarkets and generally causing mischief. So much so that eventually insurance rates on cars such as these were forced higher so as to deter youths from buying them.
With future sales forecasts likely to remain low, Chrysler had planned on discontinuing the Imperial at the end of the 1973 model year. While image and appearance were an important part of luxury car appeal, without sales Chrysler could not afford to build an Imperial with a unique bodyshell.
A front-end design envisioned for the next Imperial penned by Chrysler/Imperial exterior studio senior stylist Chet Limbaugh came to the attention of Elwood Engel. It featured a "waterfall" grille with thin vertical chrome bars separated by a body-colored band running through the center, which started on top of the nose and flowed down.
To save money the 1974 model would use the same body panels as the Chrysler New Yorker except for the front end clip and trunk lid. This meant that for the first time as a separate marque, the Imperial would share the same wheelbase as a production Chrysler.
With the full effects of the 1973 oil crisis being solidly felt, a bad year for both the U.S. economy and its auto industry was in store for 1974 - cruel timing for Chrysler's 50th anniversary year. The "by Chrysler" script was removed from the car for 1974. The Imperial's electronic ignition system was a U.S. market first, as was the optional car alarm.
While total sales were down from 1973, Chrysler was pleased with the 14,483 Imperials produced, given the poor economy in 1974 and a retail price of $7,230 for the sedan.
Estimated : € 6.000 - 10.000
Sold for € 44.548
The Renault Icons
Auction - Artcurial
Renault Manufacture
Flins-sur-Seine
Aubergenville - France
December 2025
- Replica inspired by the runner-up in the 1989 Supertouring Championship
- Displayed at the 1991 Bangkok Motor Show
Started in 1976, the Production, then Superproduction and Supertouring Championship quickly became very popular as the saloons competing looked similar to the standard production versions. In 1987, Renault decided to enter it with its newly introduced 21 Turbo. Totally modified, the car received a partly tubular chassis, a lighter body, four-wheel drive and an engine prepared by Sodemo, taking its power from 175 to 430 bhp. Driven by Jean Ragnotti and Jean-Louis Bousquet, the R21 brazenly dominated the 1988 season, Ragnotti winning the title and the two drivers together notching up six wins over the ten rounds that year.
The following year, changes to the regulations led to the engine being installed longitudinally rather than transversely. The car was no longer in Renault’s colours but those of Philips Car Stereo, and despite a difficult start to the season, it finished as the runner-up with 11 pole positions out of 14.
The car offered today is a display model inspired by car number 21 from the 1988 season, with a stripped-out steel bodyshell, roll cage, bucket seat and the running gear from a standard R21. It was displayed at the 1991 Bangkok Motor Show before joining the collection at a very early stage. With no engine, it represents an absolutely spectacular show car for any Supertouring fan.
W111
Chassis n° 111026-12-001948
Zoute Sale - Bonhams
Estimated : € 80.000 - 120.000
Sold for € 143.750
Zoute Grand Prix 2024
Knokke - Zoute
België - Belgium
October 2024
The 3.5-litre version of the 280 SE typifies the resurgence of larger-engined Mercedes-Benz models that began in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when the progressive easing of fiscal constraints, which had dissuaded customers from buying cars with large capacity engines, encouraged the German manufacturer to offer bigger, more potent power units. Thus the ultra-luxurious 280 SE coupé/cabriolet and 300 SEL saloon were chosen by Mercedes-Benz to launch its magnificent new 3.5-litre V8 engine in 1969. An over-square design featuring a cast-iron block and aluminium-alloy cylinder heads, each equipped with a single overhead camshaft, this all-new, state-of-the-art power unit produced 200bhp courtesy of Bosch electronic fuel injection and transistorised ignition. Thus equipped, the Coupé/Cabriolet was good for 205km/h (127mph) with 100km/h reachable in 9.5 seconds, a substantial improvement on the six-cylinder version's figures. Although the equivalent SEL saloon used the 'New Generation' bodyshell, the Coupé and Cabriolet kept the elegant coachwork that had debuted back in 1959 on the 220 SE and, as befitted top-of-the-range luxury models, came equipped with automatic transmission, air conditioning, power windows and stereo radio as standard. Significantly, the 280 SE 3.5 was to be the final model to feature this long-established and much admired body style, and today these last-of-the-line classics are highly sought after by discerning Mercedes-Benz collectors.
One of only 3,720 Coupé examples produced, of which 3,025 were left-hand dive, this most elegant Mercedes-Benz, the top-of-the line 280 SE 3.5 V8 Coupe, was originally delivered to the United States and ordered in the stunning 'Tobacco Brown' colour scheme it is presented in today. It was bought by the immediately preceding owner - a UK-based enthusiast - for his impressive private collection in France. While there the car was maintained by his personal mechanic and saw only very limited use. The current vendor purchased the Mercedes in October 2016, since when it has benefited from considerable refurbishment. In 2017 the body was thoroughly restored and treated to a full professional respray at a cost of €12,490, photographs and details of which are on file. In 2021 various electrical and mechanical repairs plus a service were carried out at a cost of some €6,680. Early 2023 ignition and fuel injection systems were inspected and repaired at a cost of €4,385. Repairs have also been made to the air conditioning, suspension, interior, etc at a cost of €9,990, while the overhauled Becker Europa stereo is now functioning correctly. The total spend on the aforementioned works was approximately €35,000. The related invoices are on file together with various smaller bills. It should be noted that the Mercedes has been professionally converted to European specification, not only deleting the reflectors but also installing a km/h speedometer, etc. The replacement automatic gearbox had been installed already before the 1990s it is believed.
Beautifully finished in a most attractive colour combination of dark brown and sumptuous tan leather interior, this stunning Mercedes-Benz comes with the desirable options of automatic transmission (column-mounted change), air conditioning, and electric tinted windows all round.
1/32 resin slot cars 1956 Le Mans Coventry Climax / Lotus 11 team. L to R: Chapman & MacKay-Fraser, Allinson & Hall, Bricknell & Jopp. Hunaudieres Models (Pedro Sanchez) resin bodies and Slot Classis chassis.
GBTG Pool 60 047 'SCAFELL PIKE' and DCRO Pool 56 103 head north through Huntingdon, working 0Z60 from Willesden to Colwick, on Saturday September 7th 2024.
60 047 was built by Brush (with her bodyshell assembled by Procor), entering service in February 1991. She is now operated by GBRf.
56 103 was built at Doncaster, entering service in December 1981. She worked in France between November 3rd 2005 - November 17th 2006, when she was withdrawn. She is now operated by DC Rail.
TOPS info:-
60047 GBTG RS GKM 0 AA
56103 DCRO HQ GKM 0 AA.
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1/32 resin slot car Ferrari 250 GT SWB Le Mans 1961. Driven by Lucien Bianchi and George Berger. OCAR resin bodyshell and PCS32 chassis with PSR running gear.
This Stingray was built for this years Bordeaux Vintage slot meeting. The theme was 1966 +67 Le Mans. This was my build using a Revell bodyshell which I modified like the real car.
1/32 resin slot car MG Magnette ZB c.1958 in BSCC racing livery. PSR resin bodyshell, full depth interior & modified full length MRRC driver. MRRC Sebring chassis and slimline motor. A2M ali rims with RS Slot Racing resin inserts.
Alfa Romeo Junior Z
The Junior Z was created by Zagato using the short-wheelbase Type 105 chassis from the Spider, and the five-speed gearbox from the Giulietta. It was an arresting-looking coupé that added real variety to the Alfa Romeo line-up, but unlike earlier Alfa-Zagatos, it was not conceived for racing, nor was it particularly lightweight - it featured a steel bodyshell with an aluminium bonnet and aluminium door-skins (on the earlier 1300 JZs).
The sloping front and Kamm tail were certainly a world apart from the well-crafted classicism of the rest of the Giulia-derived cars, but no less appealing for it. The Junior Zagato was a little lighter and more aerodynamic than the standard cars so it was a bit quicker too. Considering its coachbuilt status, values are surprisingly low.
Here's a couple pictures of my original 1970 Meyers Manx fiberglass Dune Buggy. The kit car was built using the Manx bodyshell coupled with the VW Volkswagen Beetle bug frame and 1500 engine.
1/32 slot car Ferrari 250LM Reims 12hr race c.1964. Driven to 1st place by Graham Hill & Joakim Bonnier. Airfix bodyshell and Scalextric chassis with rear mounted transverse Mabuchi motor to allow a full depth interior.
1/32 resin slot car Mercedes 300SL 1955 Mille Miglia. Driven by John Fitch to 12th place. Resin bodyshell, PCS32 rear chassis with steering unit (by Gareth Jones at www.chase-cars.com) and scratch-built interior.
A series of photographs documenting the release of GB Railfreight's Class 92, 92 044 "Couperin" from the Wabtec Brush works at Loughborough. 044 had spent exactly 14 months there for overhaul, reliability mods and new wheelsets. The assisting locomotive was a fellow Brush Traction machine, Class 60, 60 002 "Graham Farish 50th Anniversary 1970-2020".
The 60 had also been out of traffic for more than a year after a turbo fire. The Covid-19 pandemic had delayed repairs and then some additional mods were done as well as its immaculate repaint - the first GBRf loco repainted at DB Cargo's Toton depot.
This was the 60's first working for GBRf after its long spell in Toton and also its first run on the main line sporting its recently received new name commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Graham Farish.
This was also the first time two of GB Railfreight's Brush "cousins" - the Class 60 and Class 92 - had been together. The locos share a common bodyshell design, built by Procor in Wakefield, and have other similar components.
Potentially most historically of all, though - with the subsequent announcement the Brush Traction works are due to close by the end of the year - there's a good chance this was the last time a Class 60 will visit the place where the 100-strong class were built in 1989-1993.
GB's sole active grey 92 had lost its tunnel rings and Crewe Electric depot plaques whilst in Brush, but there are rumours of a new livery to come in due course. However, that won't be before it gets back to earning some coin for its owners (and DB!) with a brief visit to Crewe for a test run, before heading to Dollands Moor to resume tunnel duties.
60 002 ran from Toton as 0Z60 08:45 Toton TMD to Loughborough Brush, then moved 92 044 to Crewe ETD on 0Z61 09:58 Loughborough Brush to Crewe ETD, before the 60 then ran on solo to resume biomass duties on 0Z62 13:09 Crewe ETD to Tuebrook Sidings.
1/32 resin slot car Lancia Stratos HF turbo Le Mans 1976. Driven to 20th place by Lella Lombardi & Christine Dacremont. Ghost Models ( www.proto-slot-kit.com/ghostmodels.html ) resin bodyshell and Slot Classic chassis.