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Forgive me Lord for I have sinned! Despite my loathing of HTI's totally generic range of 1/64 cars and the way they have taken over or should I say dominated the budget end of the UK market I found myself buying a few of their five vehicle sets in ASDA recently. I've spent years swimming against the tide with these fantasy horrors but now realise they are now a permanent fixture here and worryingly in quite a few countries now too.
I know theres a place for generics especially at the toy end of the market and sometimes if they look believable I will buy them but for me I hate the fact HTI could and should do so much better or at least go back to offering licensed castings too like they did briefly a few years back.
There are some elements of a MAN TGA in the front styling of this Fire Engine Ladder Truck but everything from the front windscreen back is pure generic design. Giving credit where its due this and others in the same series are well finished and do have a robust feel to them.
Mint and boxed.
One of the four Wright R1820 engines of 1200hp each. They were supercharged to allow for high altitude flying.
Coming our way to look after, following a couple of passes on the auction block before the hammer finally fell in our favor. Yea!
I'm clueless as to how an engine ended up at the beach on the way to Last Pond... in the middle of nowhere.
Engine bay shot from the 7-16 car show, sporting my back to back Best Engine Bay of BerettaFest placards.
The Sturtevant 5A engine, rated at 140 hp, powered the Sturtevant S-4 and some L.W.F. V-1 training airplanes used by the Signal Corps at North Island, Calif., and Mineola, N.Y., during 1916 and 1917. Neither of these airplanes proved suitable, partly because of the 5A engine's high power to weight ratio of 3.5 pounds per horsepower. The Army soon replaced those aircraft with the Standard J-1 and Curtiss JN-4 trainers.