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n9949y
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posted on 19-4-2007 at 22:57
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ALMS Ford GT
Greetings from Eugene, OR USA.
There's been some talk and discussion in the US
about a Ford GT being set up as a racer and entered in ALMS & at Le Mans in 08. Well, here, applying a little artistic license, is my version, one
that might be raced in GT2 ALMS class.
For racing in Pelican park Speedway's GTO class, I used a 1/24th AutoArt body
slightly modifed with a wing and front & rear splitters, mounted it to a custom scratch built brass chassis powered by a Parma Death Star, running on
Pro Track rims/tires. Afermarket decals to achieve the correct American Le Mans appearance, a Fujimi kit driver.
Fujimi bodied Lamborghini & Ford GT, Carrera reworked bodied 550 Ferrari & Corvette CR6
2 LMP1 cars
Now, if I can find a sponsor who will pay my way so that I can get to Europe and race with you good people!
Todd Messinger
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Slotdirk
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Location: Alphen aan den Rijn
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posted on 20-4-2007 at 16:41
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Hello Todd,
Great looking car! If possible please send a picture of the chassis as well. Do you always use own build chassis or PlaFit / Momo / etc as well? Are
the prototypes in the last picture 1/24 as well? Is that a Courage Peugeot in the front? Whitch kit was used? I asume you race Parma 16D motors, is
this not to much power for such a car?
I am working on a Maserati MC12 at the moment. Also I hope to get the Maserati coupe in a few weeks.
Kind regards,
Dirk-Jan
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n9949y
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posted on 20-4-2007 at 22:39
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Hello Dirk,
We at Pelican Park Speedway are carrying on a tradition of building and perfecting
the art of scratch building brass chassis. This craft started in the US in the early 1960's by dedicated hobbyists, including me, who sought scale
appearing model car performance excellence, before the speed craze and associated non scale bodies came to define US slot car racing. Here's a chasis
similar to the Ford's, an example of current state of art, that, by the way, only exists in the state of Oregon- no where else.
Yes, in the bottom photo that's a Courage C60 by a kit I bought from TSRF
here in the US and is mounted to a scratchbuilt brass chassis as well as the Carrera bodied Audi R8.
Both are 1/24th scale, excellent samples of the cars raced at Pelican Park where its
16-20 members have been building and racing exclusively 1/24th real scale cars for 20 years now, every week! With more than 350 1/24th cars ready to
race in our 12 different classes, members capture in miniature the essence of motor sports history from the 1930's to the present. Here's an example
of my very competative Open Wheel, "Monza" class machine, a model of Manfred von Brauchitsch's 1939 Mercedes W-154/9 he drove to 2nd place at the
August, 1939 Swiss Gran Prix at Bremgarten, in Bern. The car was raced at 1947 and 1948 Indianapolis 500 races.
(its scratch built chassis)
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Paal
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posted on 23-4-2007 at 13:38
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Just have to love that Mercs Todd, even though the width of those rear rollers are more 70s then 30s
Paal Hanson
Vikings Scaleracing Club, Denmark
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