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| New LSR | New French kit maker |
 Record breaking driver and car constructor Don Vesco has just set a new outright World Land Speed Record for wheel-driven turbine automobiles - reports Ugo Fadini. His speed - set at the Bonneville World Finals - was an average over the two way runs of 458.440 m.p.h. and during the return run he blew a tyre but continued. The car - named ‘Turbinator’ - has already been modelled with an earlier livery by Fadini but will now be the subject of a new edition just as soon as the very complex decals can be afforded. Xmas at GPM Our mail order department will close down at 1 pm on Friday 21st December (when hopefully we will have mailed out everything we can!) and will not re-open until Wednesday 2nd January. Please give us a couple of days to open the mail, sort the faxes and warm up the computers to receive your emails, not to mention see what has arrived model-wise(!) before ringing to see if we have received your order or query . We will process everything as quickly as possible. The showroom will be open as usual to visitors on Saturdays 22nd and 29th December between 12 noon and 5 pm. Mail order expansion Due to the very positive response to GPM’s new website we are re-organising our working hours to give collectors a better and more efficient service. As from 1st January 2002 we will be working most Mondays in addition to our normal Tuesday through Friday service. To cope with these increased hours we have decided to curtail our Saturday openings to the first Saturday of each month starting Saturday 5th January. The Monday following the Saturdays that we are open we will not be here - therefore the first Monday that we will be working will be Monday 14th January. Weekday visits for collection of models for those customers who are unable to make the first Saturday of each month will be possible by appointment as previously. |
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| The 1:43rd scale Carroll Shelby Maserati T61 Birdcage created by super-modeller Stephen Barnett (the engine above is from a similar model by Stephen) was was recently judged to be the outright winner of the ‘First Official International Competition and Census’ of Maserati Models. This prestigious event, organised by Signora Pamela Guarnieri on behalf of Maserati, was held in the Piazza Maggiore, Palazzo Re Enzo, Bologna, Italy in October. To have been judged the outright winner from many hundreds of high quality entries was a major achievement - writes Vincent McBride. Stephen’s model was awarded the Quattroutine Trophy - a large silver vase inscribed with a Maserati motif - by Sig. Antonio Ghini of Ferrari/Maserati in front of an international audience - and accepted on his behalf by Sig. Walter Gualdrini author of the book ‘Miniature Maserati’. The Maserati Club of the UK have offered Stephen their hearty congratulations to which we at FSW and GPM would like to add ours. |
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Using documentation provided by Jacques Swaters Garage Francorchamps,
André Marie Ruf is modelling the Team Francorchamps Ferrari
512S from the Daytona 24-Hours of 1971.....JPS have announced a raft
of new releases which include the Matra 660 LM 1972, Monte Carlo 1938
Hotchkiss, LM 2001 Saleen and Callaway together with several versions
of the Courage C60......Marsh Models awaiting decals for Pacer Lola
T70 and Mecom Zerex and looking for help with the interior and rear
end of the Red Lobster March 83G. Also being worked on are the Autocoast
Ti-22 and Lola T220.....Michael Craig who creates Piranha Models,
points out that the dimensions of his Ferrari 312PB are correct and
that it is not larger than 1:43rd scale as we suggested in our review
- he’s right - we were wrong it appears although we checked his
model against others and his is larger which makes the others all
too small - our apologies sir.....Mulsanne Models are to release a
driver signed limited edition of the #8 Bentley from this year’s
Le Mans.....the red Madyero Lancia Ferrari race #6 which we queried
(see photo page 24 FSW 8-01) was entered by Mirabella in the ‘83
Championship and among other results finished 6th at Spa - thanks
to Philippe Moriniere and Gordon Dawkins for filling in these facts
for us. |
| Slotting
into place FSW reader Max Winter is launching his own range of very different kits (what's new page 5 - review page 8). For the range titled ‘MAXi Models’ Max is creating a new style of approx. 1:32nd scale high detail models as slot cars. To enable the cars to be run as actual racers Max has had to make small compromises of configuration but this has lost little of the ‘feel’ of the full-size McLaren M6 Can-Am which is his first model. |