As I continue to build my way to my goal of 2 fleets of 64 cars each, I’m going to show you some of the most recent builds as I put them together. This is similar to the “Meet The Fleet” posts, except that there we’re looking back over what I’ve done in the last year; these are the ones I’m cranking out of the shop even as I’m working on these posts.
My New Year’s Eve gift: a beautiful original Aurora body of the famous Ford G.T.40. This one is turquoise, one of the harder to find colors for this body, and its in almost perfect condition. Although it wasn’t cheap, it would have been more expensive had the front screw post not been split. Of course I have a fix for this, but more on that later…
After fixing the screw post, I finished it with a brand new Ultra-G chassis fitted with Road Race Replicas wheels in the style RRR called “Bullets” (and which I call Torque Thrusts); I chose a black center to offset the black stripes on the car and used white on black roundels.
Mind you, it wasn’t easy overcoming my triskaidekaphobia to use this number! I’d been holding out on using #13 not because I was saving it for something good but because I didn’t want to use it at all! But, truth is…I have so many cars now that I’m beginning to run out of numbers! Until I acquire the hardware to make my own decals, which I am planning to do but haven’t gotten there yet, I have to dive into my stash of pre-made decals, and since I needed the right size for the hood and doors and wanted white on black roundels, scary #13 was the only one that fit the bill! As a final touch, I added a set of headlight decals specially made for this car; these are fairly hard to find, but I have seen them show up on ebay from time to time.
As it turns out, that triskaidekaphobia was misplaced: this has just now taken the title of the fastest car in my entire fleet, turning in an unbelievable lap time! And considering the magnets and motor are completely stock, it can only be the car’s small, low weight and low center of gravity that give it that amazing performance…in other words, exactly like the REAL CAR!
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