GT40 Targo Florio finished.

That is one sweet looking build. I'm not much of a Ford guy but those cars are just slick.

Great looking build of my forever all time favorite auto!!! Some of those shots could be believed as the full scale car.

Great job Crasher, thanks for sharing.


stinger


I know, these are aircraft, but they're mine

Looks good nice job on the engine . The GT 40 was always one of my favorites.

Magic Martin, nice build and the engine really sets it off.

What were the instructions for the transkit like and did you use any other reference material?

'Kitbashed' The instructions are not too bad - one piece of A4 typed. You can either use the kit cross member, which has the shocks attached and the solid metal axle from the kit or the one in the transkit and their separate shocks and drive shafts(which is what I did). There is one b/w pic showing location of the sway bar but its virtually unusable as the quality is so bad. All the resin parts are nicely detailed and have guide holes for drilling (even the distributor).
I used various references from the web but there seems to be a wide variety of differences in the way the cars were set up so there's has to be a bit of artistic licence here and there.
The car that it is modelled on was crashed in the race and I couldn't find pics of it anywhere so just used the box-art .
Martin
p.s. I've just noticed that the carb box is crooked on the pics - it's tin sheet and clipped in between the rocker covers - sorry about that - will have to straighten it!!!!!

Stunning piece of work, I always wanted one of those transkits....is it still available from someone? The car looks fantastic but there is one thing I think you should do to make it look even better. Shave of that dreadful lip on the inside of the rims, especially on the rear wheels in this case. I always do that whenever it's present and think it's a big improvment to get rid of that kind of train looking rims.

Keep it up!
Niclas

Outstanding job!
That engine compartment looks great.

That is truly awesome work crasher...... It is also one of my favorite cars. Truly something for me to aspire too.

Niclas - I got it online from www.stradasports.com USDLRS25 if I remember rightly. Enter on home page and click Historic Racing Miniatures.

Thanks for the rim tip - I'll try it on a spare and see what it looks like first.

Next is a similar transkit for the 917K (when I get around to it)
Martin