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RUSSELL SS100.

Fancy a BIG project? Here’s a good print of the Drysdale Press plan for D A Russell’s 29 ½” long car for 10cc engines, plus copies of construction details etc. material. There are 5 perfect NOS vintage Goodyear 6.00 – 16 tyres, impossible to find these days, with modern, firm foam inserts for rigidity, and a quality, turned aluminium 2 ¾” steering wheel. £150.

EARLY 1970s BRITISH GT40 RC CAR KIT.

This rather historic, partially complete “kit” by Impex Engineering of Brighton and sold by Model Aerodrome Ltd, had many heavy duty tethered car features, such as ED Speedicord tyres in NOS condition on custom made heavy hubs, substantial machined front axles etc. The fibreglass body was probably made by Marinecraft and is still in good and usable condition, though in need of a bit of surface filler in places.

The chassis plate is only 14wswg ali, very underspecified, and 1/8” to 4mm would be better, but all other components seem expensively over engineered. A fascinating relic of a great subject from 50+ years ago at £150.

WREFORD PINT PARTS.

All that I have been able to find in the way of parts for the elusive and ultra rare Wreford Pint car after decades of searching are this stamped, folded ali sheet chassis plate plus a pair of 2 ¾” diameter wheels in un-run but age hardened condition. Included for luck is a copy of the Half Pint plan, and copies of info from period publications with details of some of the associated gearbox etc parts. £60.

VERON ALTON SPECIAL PARTS WITH MIKE BEACH 3.5cc SPECIAL SPARK ENGINE.

This project kit contains most of the important and difficult to find components to make an Alton Special car (no wooden bits included). There is a good plan for the car (kindly given to me by Phil Smith). The engine is a one-off made by my old pal Mike Beach about 40 years ago, using an ED 3.46 piston/cylinder liner assembly, complete with a new 1066 type clutch and drive coupling parts.

There is a well made, smooth running RRC 1066 bevel gearbox with Muffets gears, plus a vintage ignition coil with switch and a modern condenser, plus some spring steel strip for the suspension, and a set of four new 4”diameter repro Meccano tyres (no lettering) and wheels, and some starting cord. £300.

BUDGET 1/8 SCALE AUSTIN 744ohc “KIT”.

Assembled for the late Dave Hume as a budget project and sadly never completed by him, here are 2 MM scale drawings for the subject, with a solid, hard balsa body band sawn ready for final shaping, front and rear axles with new solid, runnable tyres, and a set of bevel gears.

There is a good HB 25 glow engine with heat sink and good compression but one “eye” broken off one of the mounting lugs), with a clutch and bevel gears, a pre-sawn ali plate body base pan, and most miscellaneous materials to finish a simple but nice and practical car quite cheaply. £150.

TWO c.1949 SUPERSONIC SUPER SPUR 10cc CAR “KITS”.

The Supersonic and Watsons Indy Roadster cars are just about the most appealing-looking American 10cc cars to my eye, and here are two examples of the former for folks who like the bigger cars, which I rarely build now.

The first is probably a set of McCoy or other source repro castings, as it has a different shape radiator cut out from most of the images of original cars I have ben able to find. It comes with a substantial, cast tether bridle arm, and new, runnable McCoy (or A. Zetterstrom repro?) pneumatic rear tyres and solid knife edge fronts, and McCoy wheels all round with front bearings fitted, plus a set of quality, hardened spur gears to suit. £350.

The second older looking and possibly/probably(?) original set of castings is already flattened and joined , and otherwise uncut. Most early original cars seem to have a small, semi-oval radiator cut out on the top body part only, but I haven’t been able to find out if these were cast in or not, so these may be other, old repro castings of very nice quality. Included are new Duromatic knife edge front tyres on new McCoy wheels with bearings, and the rears are new CR balloon types with McCoy wheels with press-in centres. A suitable new set of quality, hardened spur gears is included, and a 60 size spur engine mount casting, but no tether arm. Also £350.