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[gascarnut]

I have just finished a Retro Can-Am car for customer with a very specific requirement - he is a big McLaren fan, but also a great Graham Hill fan, so what to do?

Well, I guess it could have happened, after all, Dan Gurney got a works McLaren drive, as did Peter Gethin and others, so:



I used #3, as this was not used by the works team, and the only time that Graham Hill did run in Can-Am he ran a #3 Lola T70 for Surtees.

Some more shots:





Body is one of the early Buena Park PETG pulls of the copy of the original Dynamic "low and wide" M8A mold. The intake stacks are lengths of 1/8" aluminum tubing flared a little by tapping a center punch into the end, then mounted all artistically skew like the original. Well, that's the official story.... :grin:

Underneath is pure SC current version, nothing special or different.

[Noose]

Nice!

[Big Durl]

Dennis, you've hit on something very close to the way I approach painting my cars. For the most part, I try to design my paint/detailing with the idea of "what if I was driving one of these actual race cars (whatever the era/class)?" What would I want it to look like? What would it have looked like? This is FAR more interesting to me than simply copying an existing race car. I know some of us enjoy that sort of thing and I appreciate it, it just doesn't float MY boat.

I think trying to create alternative fantasies in a realistic manner is way cool, no matter how subtle. Thanks for this.

[Noose]

Hmmm... Can-Am Fantasy...

I WIN... with MY OWN CHASSIS... MY OWN MOTOR... and a Ray Carlisi spraybomb-painted body.


Hmm... nah... nevermind... it was a nightmare. The body did it.

[GT40]

Dennis,

Cool "hybrid," and nice work!

How about Jim Hall driving a McLaren?

Usually the first time I run a particular body in D3 I will try to do a fairly faithful recreation of an actual car: Denny Hulme's McLaren, Jackie Oliver Ti22, Jonathan Williams Ferrari 350 P4... of course, I'm not sure all my drivers had open face helmets, which would explain why I didn't necessarily take the concours.

Right now I'm on a Dan Gurney kick. Last one was the McLeagle. This Saturday it will be... well, let's wait and see if things work out...

Has anyone else wondered why there's no approved Lola T70 body for SoCal D3?

[Noose]

Has anyone else wondered why there's no approved Lola T70 body for SoCal D3?

Especially the True Scale version... it's gorgeous.

[Vay Jonynas]

Dennis:

There's nothing wrong with painting up a car the way you want it. After all, it is your car, not McLaren's or Dan Gurney's or anyone else's! I see no reason why you or any other model builder should be constrained to duplicating/mimicking "real life". So go ahead, let your imagination run wild and model reality as it should have been!



Nice car BTW.

[GT40]

Noose,

Where can I find the True Scale T70?

[TSR]

Where can I find the True Scale T70?

I guess you can find it from... Truescale products.

Has anyone else wondered why there's no approved Lola T70 body for SoCal D3?

Because no one submitted one yet for approval...
The Truescale (PETG but I believe, no Lexan available) and the Electric Dreams (Lexan) are both patterned after the Dynamic T70 from 1968, but neither has been submitted for approval.
However I am pretty sure that no one would stop anyone from running them as both are very nice replicas of the original.

[Noose]

truescaleproducts.com and they do come in Lexan.

[Tex]

The Truescale (PETG but I believe, no Lexan available) and the Electric Dreams (Lexan) are both patterned after the Dynamic T70 from 1968, but neither has been submitted for approval.

I just went to the ED website and couldn't find the Lola T70 you speak of, Dokk(?); maybe that's why no one has submitted one for approval. And since you mention Lexan, Philippe, did ED ever get their Vac-u-Form working properly? I'm showing up at DA Sano with PETG bodies because it was broken, remember? So that's two strikes.... no Lola T70 listed and no Lexan. And, unfortunately, True Scale is somewhat in-absentia due to circumstances beyond their control.