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Post by checkeredflagdetails on Oct 29, 2017 18:37:46 GMT -8
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Post by dustymojave on Oct 29, 2017 23:39:10 GMT -8
Sweet! Thanks for those!
For info to those building models of this car and others of the era:
- The seat belts should be 4-point with hook and lever type buckles instead of later style "quick release" hardware. And MAN!...I'd hate to drive the car with those bolt-in shoulder belt ends sticking into my shoulders like that. I don't think the restoration shop guy who chose that type of shoulder belt mount was going to drive the car himself. The belts should wrap around the shoulder bar with just a 3-bar buckle like that seen just below the top edge of the seat.
- The "on-board" fire extinguisher seen in front of the left passenger seat is fine for vintage racing an old car, but is totally wrong for the era. It should have a small long type of fire bottle.
- Period photos do not show the red filler cap in front of the windscreen. It's something added since.
- The rear wheels should not be McLaren-Elva hollow spokes, they should be the Minilite style wheels the same as seen on the front in these pictures. Some photos of a little earlier than Nassau '64, such as at Santa Barbara Labor Day '63, show the car with similar Minilite-look wheels with flat face spokes and the tips of the spokes don't extend onto the drop center portion of the rim. Slightly different around the center hub too.
- The VW basket-weave seat upholstery is probably more comfy to sit in than smooth vinyl whether the weather is warm or chilly. But it's not really right for the era. Regular imitation leather look vinyl is right. I doubt that that would even enter into thoughts of somebody modelling in 1/24 scale though.
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Post by afx on Oct 30, 2017 2:11:22 GMT -8
Great photos Lew, thanks for posting them.
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Post by eagle36 on Nov 6, 2017 17:50:24 GMT -8
Sweet! Thanks for those! For info to those building models of this car and others of the era: - The seat belts should be 4-point with hook and lever type buckles instead of later style "quick release" hardware. And MAN!...I'd hate to drive the car with those bolt-in shoulder belt ends sticking into my shoulders like that. I don't think the restoration shop guy who chose that type of shoulder belt mount was going to drive the car himself. The belts should wrap around the shoulder bar with just a 3-bar buckle like that seen just below the top edge of the seat. - The "on-board" fire extinguisher seen in front of the left passenger seat is fine for vintage racing an old car, but is totally wrong for the era. It should have a small long type of fire bottle. - Period photos do not show the red filler cap in front of the windscreen. It's something added since. - The rear wheels should not be McLaren-Elva hollow spokes, they should be the Minilite style wheels the same as seen on the front in these pictures. Some photos of a little earlier than Nassau '64, such as at Santa Barbara Labor Day '63, show the car with similar Minilite-look wheels with flat face spokes and the tips of the spokes don't extend onto the drop center portion of the rim. Slightly different around the center hub too. - The VW basket-weave seat upholstery is probably more comfy to sit in than smooth vinyl whether the weather is warm or chilly. But it's not really right for the era. Regular imitation leather look vinyl is right. I doubt that that would even enter into thoughts of somebody modelling in 1/24 scale though. The McLaren wheels did appear on the car in period while driven by Augie Pabst. He ran them at Riverside on October 31, 1965 and at Las Vegas on November 14, 1965, as shown by the pictures in the Lerner book at pp. 171-172. They probably were leftovers from the McLaren M1A that was destroyed by fire at Mosport in September of that year. The Scarab replaced the McLaren. Pabst still owns the car and it has appeared regularly at the Brian Redman Hawk at Road America. I suspect that the Mecum markings were added for the Foyt exhibition as they were never on the car at RA. |
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Post by dustymojave on Nov 10, 2017 2:04:29 GMT -8
The Mecom (Mecum is an auction house) markings date to when John Mecom owned the car in 64 when Foyt and Hansgen drove it. This is when the rear wheel wells were opened up and flared. I ran across photos of the car with Roger Penske looking it over in Mecom's race garage in Texas in '64.
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