NEW BUILDS: With this Ferrari, the 60’s live again!

I just got a delivery of 3 new chassis from one of my favorite vendors, Slots N’ Stuff (check them out on ebay). The chassis themselves are nothing special but the tires they are fitted with are; these are the new Auto World “Firestone Goldline” replicas, with the thin yellow sidewall on the outside of the RWL. This is a very vintage mid/late 1960’s look that I really love, and when I saw them I had to have them (Goodyear, incidentally, had a style similar to this using a blue sidewall instead of yellow). On the same day the box o’ chassis arrived, another package came from a private seller: my 4^th (and, therefore, last) Ferrari Dino T-Jet body. This one is white with a red stripe; I already have red/white, blue/white and yellow/red, so white/red was the perfect way to finish off my usual “squadron of four” configuration.

Now of course this blog makes it obvious that I’m not generally a fan of stock wheels, but that doesn’t mean I never use them; I just don’t use them often. To use these tires, though, I needed to use the stock wheels, but still found a way to uptown things a bit by replacing the chrome wheels that came with the chassis with these red chrome take-offs from one of the disastrous red chassis I’ve bitched about in an earlier post (at least I got something out of them!)

And look at the result! Of course there was the usual grinding and shaving with the Dremel on the chassis, the screw posts, and a couple of other places (the Ferrari Dino body is a particularly challenging fit for the AW Ultra-G chassis) but it was so worth it!!! In fact, this looks SO GOOD that I’m probably going to give the same treatment to my yellow one; I like the way that one looks now with its red Vincent ATS wheels, but I have to get rid of the non-performing red chassis its sitting on, and I have another set of red chrome AW wheels, so it may get these wheels and tires too!

Also up for the Firestone Goldlines: one of my Ford G.T. 40’s, and one of my Lola G.T.’s, both cars that will look very “right” wearing these period tires!