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[Mark Onofri]

Ok, this is the third time at posting this.

Everyone's favorite, the: FORD GT-40

 

Not sure of the manufacturer or which is which as far as variations on the original.
Feel free to chime in

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[Mark Onofri]

Another highly publicized Ford powered icon:
LOTUS 30-40
Again, not sure of the manufacturer or if it's a 30 or a 40

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[Mark Onofri]

Last of the Ford contestants, I think? No mistaking this for anything else but a:
Ford GT-MK4.
If anyone wants photos with different angles. Let me know and I'll post them.
Oh, for a change, I actually know the manufacturer
Select Industries
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[slotcarone]

The Lotus 40 has the exhaust pipes coming out of the top of the body behind the engine. The Lotus 30 the pipes are not visible.

[Mark Onofri]

This one could go either way. It could accommodate any motor, I think. It was the basis for the GT-40 so, if your a blue oval fan, it Ford powered. The
LOLA GT
Once again, manufacturer unknown

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[Mark Onofri]

While we're on the subject, another gem from Select Industries the:
LOLA 70Mk3GT
TSR,if by chance you happen to read this,maybe you can explain the reinforcement. Is it factory or, homemade?

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[Mark Onofri]

Yet another Select Industries winner. I know there's a lot of Jim Hall fans so:
CHAPARRAL 2D LM

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[Mark Onofri]

And what would the 60's be without a
PORSCHE 904
As usual, manufacturer unknown

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[TSR]

Mark,
the goop inside the Select bodies is of course not "factory".
A customer committed this mess all by himself, likely with Araldite which was the common 2-part epoxy in the mid-1960s, and Araldite turns yellow with age.
One assumes that he intended to paint the bodies on their outside.

I think that your Lotus 30 is by Shark, or a replica of a Shark body.

The Ford GTs on top are replicas if the Cox and K&B models, and again, hard to figure out which of the period's plagiarizer did it.

The "904" looks nice enough to be a Lancer model.

 

[Mark Onofri]

Thank you for your expertise.
Funny thing about the Select Industries bodies, the instructions are quite specific on how to paint the INSIDE of the body. That what my first clue that it might have been done by the previous (genius) owner.
The lotus 40 is not always identifiable by the signature megaphone exhausts. Many manufacturers took advantage of the uneducated public in there rendering of a car. The grill is very close to a 30. I've been using the grill for differentiating the 30 from the 40. However, without knowing for sure, I didn't want to have it be disputed.
The GT-40's also could both be Mk1's setup differently during the season or,by a different team.

[TSR]

It is not a Lotus 40, but a "30". The clear-plastic bubble was over the carbs, but on the "40" there were snake exahausts there with no cover.

[Mark Onofri]

Lucky picture of both
The 30 has three (3) openings, the 40 has two (2).

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[Mark Onofri]

At last, I know the manufacturer. How about a couple of:
MASARATTI _50 GT's

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[Bill from NH]

Stormer went to RCs after making slot car bodies. Today they're a stocking RC dealer in MI..

[slotcarone]

Lucky picture of both
The 30 has three (3) openings, the 40 has two (2).

Bottom picture the Lotus 40 you can see the exhaust pipes on the rear deck going out the top,

[Mark Onofri]

How about some Italian cars?
The last one is becoming one of my favorites.
In the first picture, the unpackaged one is of unknown origin.
The GTO is also of unknown origin.

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[Martin]

Mark, I have to say, you have mastered taking pics of clear bodies. Not so easy. Well done  . What's your secret?

[Eddie Fleming]

Not to step on Mark's toes, but I would say having a clear body that is not so clear helps a lot.

 

I would think

[Mark Onofri]

Bosh & Lomb magnifying lamp with a circular bulb. Sometimes you get lucky. If it was just the yellowey patina, the MASARATTI and Porsche would not have been as clear.😆

[TSR]

"Stormer went to RCs after making slot car bodies. Today they're a stocking RC dealer in MI."

Stormer collapsed in 1966 as a vacuum forming body maker. The Stormer business in MI is I believe, unrelated.

[Bill from NH]

Some years ago, there was a Stormer website & RC magazine ads that sold Stormer RC & a few slot car products. Unfortunately, I threw out all my RC car mags this past summer.

[TSR]

Bill, there is this: https://shop.stormer...egory-s/845.htm , but it has zero relation to the old and long-defunct Stormer company in California. Stormer was absorbed by Pactra Chemicals in 1965, and briefly, the conglomerate was called the "Pactra-Stormer" company. Then Testor bought Pactra, and Stormer collapsed from a dying business climate. Lloyd Asbury of Lancer went to the public auction where they sold the company's assets. That was in late 1966.

Stormer Hobbies in Glascow, MT was created in 1986 by different people.

[Mark Onofri]

I have run out of 60's clear bodies 🤔. I'll double check the dates on some others but,🎱 sez, not likely. We all know that you can't get any more accurate than with a 🎱!*
Anyone else have some sitting in the bottom of a drawer or, using them for chew toys,dust them off and Post them!
* Do they still sell them?

[TSR]

A few "Detail Models", blow molded clear-plastic bodies:













And this very rare Unique Mako Shark, with a Detail Models body, so far the sole example known of this RTR car:





 

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[Allan Feldman]

Just a point on the GT40 . True they used two Lola GT MKVI for testing mainly suspension setup. True Eric Broadley was brought in to work exclusively for Ford. The concept of the Ford GT40 project was as stated in the Fords accounts of 1963 a compromised design for a Race car a called GT40 and a road car called GT46. The designs for the car where brought over from Deanborn with Roy Lunn.. True elements of both Roy Lunns 1962 Mustang 1 concept car and Eric Broadley's Lola GT MKVI were incorporated. into the design. Eric Broadley left the GT40 project because the suits in Ford had not devised a proper hierarchy for Lunn and Broadley and they did not get along. Because of this. Eric Broadly wanted a lightweight Race car .And so when he saw the designs they did not please him. I did read that the three plans where based on a design with the front nose:- High, Higher and more High.  Its obvious that Eric Broadley did contributed to the GT40 project But as he stated in an interview the GT40 was not a Lola. Also the First prototype number was X40GT101 so the project overall was GT40 . Even though the first twelve prototypes were Ford GT's. So to repeat the Lola GT MKVI is one element in the GT40 project not the basis. 

Regards Allan