The long-awaited reintroduction of Aston Martin to Le Mans was a truly stunning car - the DBR9. On June 18-19 2005, the DBR9 is the first Aston Martin to compete at Le Mans for 16 years.
For most of the race they battled with the Corvettes at the front of GT1 class. With 22 hours gone, both cars hit trouble. Car 58 first had fuel problems (is rumoured to have run out of fuel...) Car 59 started having serious cooling problems shortly after that. The car was taken into the pits and only reappeared to complete a final lap just before 4.00pm on the Sunday. Despite being off the track for an hour and a half, car 59 completes 333 laps to finish 9th overall and 3rd in the GT1 class.
I will be doing car 59 - not only because of this succes, but also because... well, it was the first one of the two I saw and the yellow trimming just stood out so much that the 58 looked bland after that! And it's just the way I remember the car. Dustin allready posted pics of the kit - ours will be very similar, both doing the Model Factory Hiro kit of the cars, mine 2005 and his 2007.
Progress: Started yesterday and did some very loose fitting of some cockpit elements. All fits looked nice. Wanted to do a full mock build-up of the roll cage. Thusfar only managed one of the crossbeams after doing some test-fitting. Soon found that this may turn out to be the hardest part of the build! With the WM parts having been bend somewhat (special thanks to all postal employees involved!) and the holes never being the right size, it took some doing to position the side cages correctly, I then added the top Z-bar... and decided to do it with CA! With a bugger that, I'm not re-building this whole thing if it's not needed, the decision was made. Hopefull I can insert the other two X-beams from below. The only part CA'ed was the top Z-bar to the two side bars, they were themselves just placed in the correct holes and the whole cage as is can be removed and worked on from below. That's the theory...
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