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[dc-65x]

Hi Bob,

I have a "hop up" article from Rod & Custom by Bob Braverman and another one in Car Model by Tim Tobin. I'll scan and post both.

It's OK, you can keep your 65s... I'm going to cut up a NOS one.

WEEEEEEEEEE!!!

[don.siegel]

Yep, I was just looking at the Braverman article in R&C (Feb. '65). The usual treatment, he lightens the motor by cutting off extra metal on the endplates, installs ball bearings, and stretches the spring. Is the Car Model article any different? Don't remember offhand if he expoxies or balances the arm - but when he uses a DC85 for dragging he definitely expoxies it, and lightens the laminations as well...

If you don't want to cut up a new one, Rick, I think I have an old one I could send you...

Don

[bosmeck]

Absolutely beautiful Lotus, Rick!! Looks like you got that shaky brush under control

Rick, you are the real deal man, your builds are amazing and all your cars can't wait to hit the track. You definitely need this next to your name...

Rick Thigpen Ph.D

BTW - all the car needs now is some Goodyear Eagle tyre decals.

Jean-Michel,

Amazing cars but how come there is no post on these beautiful cars? Any chance of a post with more pictures on what you have done here?

Was the Atlas 1/24 Lotus pretty close to the real Lotus?

Best,

[TSR]

BTW - all the car needs now is some Goodyear Eagle tyre decals.

[bosmeck]

[Steve Deiters]

[Jean-Michel Piot]

And two cans of Tamiya varnish, my friend ...

[Jean-Michel Piot]

One you get an idea, you stick to it ...

Well, you are right by the way, it can be a quality.

My modest opinion of simple modeler: the size of wheels, the general shape of the body with:
- the short nose,
- the rostrum on the nose,
- the apertures in the wings
make the Cox model definitively closer to Bob Challman's Lotus 30 rather than to Jim Clark's Lotus 40 (chassis 40L1 Trophy Guards race).

You just have to file the rear spoiler, fill-up the tank apertures and create a single one in the front bonnet, as for Bob Challman's car.

On the other way, to have a proper Type 40 you need to fill-up the rear holes made for the Type 30 exhausts, fill-up the apertures in the 4 wings, file the rostrum, create a longer nose which will make you modify the front apertures as well. You would also have to find bigger wheels.

There are other tiny differences but I do not want to bother you with thoses (the specific helmet of Bob Chalman and its sun glasses, an air (peri)scope in front of the stacks, a smaller bulb for the hydraulic, etc...)

I've done the two versions (though I kept the standard Cox Wheels for the Lotus 40) and my feeling is that doing an accurate Lotus 30 is a little bit easier.

Sorry Rick to use your topic. But as some people talked of the Cox model and of the differences between the 30 and the 40, I felt that I might give my opinion as I know those models a little...

Now, about the kind remark made by Chris (a simple modeler like me, who's not a too bad painter by the way ):

1. How's the weather in Texas my friend ?
2. I've already put some pictures of my Lotus 30 and 40 in this forum but not in a specific topic. It appears that I act like an hermit crab, just like I did with my Strombecker Brabham... (sorry again for that). So I will create right now a topic to show pictures. I may also put pictures of the different building steps when I get time.
3. My Cox Chapparal 2E is almost finished ...