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I built this Maserati for a proxy a couple of years ago. The body is a Mitcham carving in modelling board and then moulded and cast in resin. The running gear is a Penelope Pitlane chassis and 18k motor both as required by the proxy rules. The real car had an interesting history being built in a matter of six weeks before the 1965 Le Mans from the wreckage of a crashed Maserati 151/3 and a Tipo 63 frame from the Maserati 'scrapyard'. The 21st starting position was not promising, but Jo Siffert had a stellar start and was up to eighth as the cars completed the first lap. It all went terribly wrong in the next lap when Siffert spun and punctured the radiator in the Esses. He did manage to get back to the pits, but ACO regulations stated that fluids could only be refilled until 25 laps were completed and the team was forced to retire the car after just two laps.
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We are back at the Barn on 18 March for our third Digital Wednesday of the year...
We will start the evening with a Club Car Team Race and end with a Trans-Am pairs race. Doors open at 6.30pm for practice, racing starts at 7 and we aim to finish all the action by 9.45. The team race will finish at 8.30, if you can only stay for part of the evening. Entry is £3 (£2 for under-16s). All equipment is provided for the team race and there should be plenty of spare places in the Trans-Am race.
Johnny Lightning and Auto World have resurrected many of the late 60s and 1970s Aurora HO slot cars - a range of bodies on updated versions of the Thunderjet 500 'Tuff Ones' and Magnatraction chassis. The Baja Bronco reappeared in the first X-Traction release of 2006 - like many of the early Auto World cars and the original Aurora models in a 'generic' paint scheme. Over the past few years, Auto World have brought HO enthusiasts real (or reality-inspired) liveries in their Stock Car Legends, Off Road and Legends of the Quarter Mile ranges. These two Baja Broncos really got me excited...
Those of you who know about these things will recognise the red, white and blue machine as the Parnelli Jones / Al Unser entry for the 1971 Mint 400. That's the very race Hunter S. Thompson was paid handsomely to cover for Sports Illustrated magazine. The story Thompson tells in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is light on the motorsport and heavy on the drug use. I think I'll give the mescaline a miss and concentrate on the background to these Auto World Broncos.
Desert racing in the US and Mexico began as soon as there were cars and trucks to race - commercial drivers would time their runs from one town to another over long stretches of desert road. Racers then modified their cars, trucks and bikes to go faster in the dusty, bumpy and extremely hot conditions. By the sixties, specialist desert racing vehicles - dune buggies - were developed using big wheels with lightweight chassis and glass fibre bodies.
The desert races started to get serious in the early 1960s, culminating in the National Off-Road Racing Association sanctioning the first Mexican 1000 Rally in 1967. That race followed the popular Peninsular Run, a 800-mile route from Tijuana in the north down the Baja California peninsular to La Paz. All of the unofficial and sanctioned races of the 60s and early 70s have wonderful stories of sabotage, booby-traps and decoys.
The winner of that first Mexican 1000 was a Mayers Manx kit-car, one of the most popular dune buggies based on the VW Beetle. The race was a hit for the organisers, entrants, sponsors and spectators and it wasn't long before the big manufacturers got in on the action - especially as the 1968 event would be covered by ABC's hugely popular Wide World of Sports programme.
At that time, Ford grabbed any opportunity for motorsport success. Their new Bronco off-road vehicle was given to experienced racing car builder Bill Stroppe and he produced a race-winner straight off the bat - Larry Minor winning the Mexican 1000 with Jack Bayer in 1968 and returning the following year to win alongside off-road legend Rod Hall. Their Stroppe Broncos all wore the same red, white and blue that features on one of the Auto World models - the same livery Parnelli Jones drove at the 1971 Mint 400 that is the backdrop for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Indy 500 winner Jones was the big name of the Stroppe Bronco team. However, his driving style often proved too aggressive for off-road racing, his car rarely lasting the distance. As his regular co-driver, Stroppe saw the problem close up and would spend much of his time yelling at Jones to slow down and look after the car. In the end, Stroppe built a special two-wheel-drive version of the Bronco for Jones, strengthening the space frame chassis and narrowing the track for the unforgiving Mexican roads.
The resulting car was decorated in gold and white and christened 'Big Oly' - a nod to the sponsor Olympia Beer. Parnelli Jones and Stroppe drove Big Oly to a first win at the Mexican 1000 in 1971 and again in 1972. During the 1972 race, Jones and Stroppe ran out of fuel just fifteen miles from La Paz. They stopped some local Bajans who had a full tank of gas and a tequila bottle... Jones still has the famous bottle that refuelled the car and won the race.
With those two wins at the Mexican 1000 and wins in 1973 at the Mint 400 and the Baja 500, Parnelli Jones, Big Oly and Ford became the pin-ups of off-road racing. And then the fuel crisis happened. Following a brief hiatus, desert racing continued, but it would never be quite the same again.
The two Broncos look just right on my old Tyco Turbo Hopper off-road track. Unfortunately, they don't get over the undulations so have to run on just the flat stuff...
Auto World have produced a couple of off-road sets in the past couple of years - but are only available in North America...
The Baja Bugs are nice, but - in my opinion - are not on a par with those Broncos.
I love it when the media feature Scalextric and obviously haven't a clue about the thing. Today's Telegraph property section includes a pretentious load of old nadgers entitled "Turn your kids' playroom into a laboratory of learning" which has this as its main picture:
I think the kiddies may be a bit disappointed with their new set! Both cars on the same lane and heading in opposite directions towards a guaranteed collision with the overpass. As neither hand controller is actually connected to the track it may not end in disaster though. Pity the laboratory of learning didn't include a lesson on how to assemble a slot track.
In amongst all the exciting new cars in the 2020 Scalextric catalogue, there's one re-livery that might have slipped under the radar - but it looks fantastic and is steeped in history...
The blue Ford Escort RS1600 that raced at Daytona in 1972 was pivotal to the future of John Fitzpatrick's racing career. Fitz had already made his name in Europe as a talented and successful saloon car driver, mostly in partnership with Ralph Broad at Broadspeed. Fitz won the British Saloon Car Championship in 1966 in a Broadspeed Anglia, the team switching to Escorts in 1968 and campaigning in both the British and European championship for the first time. Broad developed the RS1600 for the 1971 British Saloon Car Championship, a car that has already been released by Scalextric...
In Europe, the Escorts were used by Ford as 'spoilers' to take points from the Alfa Romeos that ran in the same 2-litre class and so help the bigger Capris win the overall championship. Fitz and Broadspeed won countless class victories and took overall victory (with Jochen Mass) at the season finale at Jarama. As 1971 came to a close, Fitz and Broadspeed were invited to run an RS1600 in the 1972 Daytona and Sebring races, a trip over the Atlantic that would take Fitz's career in a new direction...
The 1972 Daytona race was cut from the usual 24 hours down to six because of the fuel crisis. The American Libra Racing team would run the Broadspeed-prepared RS1600 for Fitzpatrick and team-owner John Buffum. It was American Buffum's first serious taste of circuit racing - an interlude in a highly-successful rallying career. The car failed to finish at Daytona (although Fitz and Buffum would win the T2.5 class at Sebring six weeks later), but the Libra Racing pit was right next door to the Porsche Kremer team - Erwin Kremer spent the weekend persuading Fitz to drive his Porsche 911 in the European GT championship, which Fitz won. Fitzpatrick would go on to be one of the most successful GT drivers of his generation, with three class wins at Le Mans and outright wins at Daytona and Sebring. Fitz talks about his career in this short video...
Apart from its history - especially of putting Fitz in the right place at the right time - the Scalextric model does look rather nice. Pictures of the car at Daytona show it both with and without the front splitter. I suspect the US-style splitter was used in the race, but I can't find any video footage showing the #24 Escort. It wouldn't be too hard to add if you wanted to. Inside, the Scalextric Escorts have the FF-050 18k rpm 'slim-can' motor - fine for magnet racing, but often replaced for a lower-revving version by those who run non-mag. A FF-050SH-10200 (14.7k rpm @12volts) from China and some Paul Gage rear tyres work for me. The Escort is Digital Plug Ready.
The car is listed as due Winter 2019-2020, which suggests it is in a warehouse and has escaped the Chinese slowdown following the Coronavirus outbreak. Like most manufacturers, Hornby are remaining tight-lipped about the impact of the situation in China. However, a number of Scalextric moulds are now in Vietnam, so there's a good chance we'll see some of the Spring, Summer and Autumn releases arrive on time.
C4085 Ford Escort Mk1 - Daytona 1972. RRP £40.99. Due Winter 2019-2020 and is available as a Pre-Order at all the usual UK retailers, including Scalextric, Pendles, MRE and Jadlams.
The Mint 400 - which is happening near Las Vegas this week - is probably the most famous desert race on US soil, given that the arguably more famous Baja 1000 takes place over the border in Mexico. Desert racing in the US and Mexico began as soon as there were cars and trucks to race - commercial drivers would time their runs from one town to another over long stretches of desert road. Racers then modified their cars, trucks and bikes to go faster in the dusty, bumpy and extremely hot conditions. By the sixties, specialist desert racing vehicles - dune buggies - were developed using big wheels with lightweight chassis and glass fibre bodies.
The Mint 400 ran for the first time in 1968 and the 1971 race was the backdrop for Hunter S. Thompson's 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' - he was paid big bucks by Sports Illustrated to cover the race. AutoWorld recently released a Baja Bronco that paid homage to the Bill Stroppe-prepared car driven at that 1971 Mint 400 by Parnelli Jones. That's the red, white and blue car...
The gold and white car - Big Oly - won the 1973 Mint 400 in the hands of Parnelli Jones. Both these might get a run out on my HO track this weekend. And I really should post up something about those AutoWorld off-road cars in the HO section.
Live coverage of the 2020 Mint 400 is online: themint400.com
Over the past week and through to Sunday there have been loads of different classes running through the desert circuits. The big race - The Mint 400 for Unlimited and Baja Trucks - is on Saturday. It'll be fun!
GT fans have been waiting for the Sideways BMW M6 GT3 for a couple of years, but the release of the white kit is not far away now. Despite current delays in China, all the parts for the kit are now in France - ready for assembly and shipping to retailers in March/April 2020. Sideways published these pictures on their Facebook page this week...
The fantasy Jägermeister livery looks like it might be one of the first fully-decorated M6 releases, but there are loads of potential real-life liveries for Sideways to choose from. In terms of the white kit, I counted twenty-nine sets of BMW M6 GT3 decals ready to order at Pattos Place. Since 2016, the M6 GT3 has been raced in GT series in all corners of the world, including in the IMSA GTD class. The only GTD M6 in 2020 is the Liqui Moly-sponsored Turner Motorsport car...
The M6 GT3 has also participated in the FIA GT World Cup in Macau - the #42 car pictured above at the 2018 race was driven to victory by Augusto Farfus.
The Sideways car is not the first 1/32 scale BMW M6 slot car. Carrera's M6 has features some nice liveries, including the 2016 Spa 24-hour winner...
Apart from the white kit (SWCAR03K), a competition rubber rear wing (SWM6/C1) and Lexan cockpit (SWM6/E) will be available. Details of prices have not been announced as yet. Sideways have gone public to say that the coronavirus outbreak will further delay their long-awaited Nissan Skyline and Toyota Celica models. Keep an eye out on the Sideways Facebook page for more news.
The March 2020 edition of Slot Car Magazine is at the printers and due to arrive at Pendle Slot Racing very soon. If reading magazines on a tablet is your thing, the pdf eBook will be available at Lulu. They'll be more details and links on the website: www.slotcarmagazine.co.uk
Here's what's in it this month...
- 02 GREED FOR SPEED - Mag car mods are the order of the day as Tony Di Pastena extracts the max from his Civic pride and joy.
- 07 ALL ABOUT ELECTRA - Crazy and orange, but it didn’t become President! Adrian Norman on Scalextric’s fantasy sports car.
- 09 WIN!!!! Scalextric – The Ultimate Guide... One of our semi-legendary competitions in which you can win not just any, but THE Scalextric book.
- 10 SPARK PLUG REVIEW - Andy Player drives a car with a mobile ’phone! Is the new Scalextric system the stuff of Champions?
- 13 WHO ARE YOU? Andy Player on Worthing’s big birthday bash. Here’s to the next ten!
- 14 WIN!!!! Hexagonal Racing Tower Kit from PSR. We’re at it again! Another fabulous prize! Have we taken leave of our senses?
- 15 MAKING A SCENE - Tony Di Pastena with some impressive erections ‘Down Under’, courtesy of ProScale Racing.
- 18 SILENT RUNNING - Marc Abbott tries replacing a pretty good chassis with another pretty goodchassis. No, we’re not sure why either.
- 20 McLAREN ELVA - We know it will be an ‘elva’ good car, but will it be the King of R-T-R? Ric Woods drives the new Thunderslot offering.
- 24 NSR F1 - One of the more pleasant surprises of 2019, Marc Abbott finally gets his hands on the F1 rookie. The car was the pleasant surprise, not Marc.
- 26 FLY RALLY PORSCHE - Part 2 of Hub Habets’ look at the Porsche 911 rally cars made by Fly. As ever, prepare to be amazed at Hub’s knowledge and collection.
- 30 IT’S THE WHEEL THING - Very important things, wheels and Ric Woods scans the latest alloy art from Staffs Slot Cars UK. Blue bling or bespoke spokes, they’re all here.
- 32 NUREMBERG 2020 - Gary Cannell, our man by your stand, hits the Toy Fair in search of the latest, the brightest, the forthcoming and…Carrera.
- 37 WIN!!!! Limited UK Edition SRC Porsche 914GT – Is this a dream? Are we really giving away something else? Get those entries in before we wake up!
- 38 CHUNKY BUT FUNKY - Tony Di Pastena meets some fellow legends in the shape of the Pioneer ‘Coops’. There’s a man who knows how to enjoy himself!
- 41 ALFA ROMEO 179C V12 - More work from the skilled hands of Kostas Dzingovic has Marc Abbott having a look at his savings. Go on, you know you want one!
- 44 THE WORLD OF DILWORTH - You know those race nights when someone even stranger than the rest of you turns up?
Hello, I have been asked about the availability of bodyshells and other parts to build cars for the 2020 1/43 Little Monte Carlo Rally proxy.
I will start the ball rolling by listing the resin bodies that I have moulds for. Please add any other suppliers that youk know of.
Lloyds resin rally car bodyshells
1950
Ford V8 Pilot
1955
Ford Popular 103E
1956
Jaguar MkV11
1958
AC Aceca
Austin A35
Austin Healey Sprite (no roof)
Morgan +4 (No roof)
Renault Dauphine
Triumph TR3 (With hardtop)
1959
Jaguar Mk2
1960
Morris Minor
1962
Austin Healey 3000 (No roof as yet)
Ford Anglia 105E
Jaguar XKE Coupe
Mercedes Benz 220SE
Volvo PV544
Aston Martin DB4
1963
Morris Mini Cooper
SAAB 96
1964
FIAT 500 (Same body as Steyr Puch)
Ford Mustang Notchback
Ford Cortina Mk1
Hillman Imp
Rover 2000
Triumph Spitfire (With hardtop)
1965
Morris Mini Cooper S (With arches)
Porsche 904
Porsche 911
1966
Renault R8
1968
Ford Escort Mk 1 (with arches)
Volvo 122 4 door
1970
BMW 2002
Lancia Fulvia HF
1972 Alpine A110
1973
Renault R12
BMW 3.0CSi
1974
Datsun 240Z
Lancia Stratos
Toyota Celica GT1600 (No arches)
VW Golf Mk1
1976
Ford Escort Mk2 (With arches)
1978
Triumph TR7 V8
These are all bare bodyshells with no windows or fittings. With work they can be made into nice models, have a look at TaskTask's cars!
If you would like any of these, please PM me.
Regards, Lloyd
NSR 86-89 Formula 1
NSR are best known for high quality Modern-GT & Classic-GT cars.
Founded by the late Salvatori Noviello, NSR have been manufacturing for about 15 years.
Design and manufacture has been based in the NSR factory in Salerno, Italy since 2010.
Starting up as a performance parts manufacturer, NSR went on to create the notorious NSR Mosler MT900R, a car that still is hard to better in the Anglewinder Sportscar class despite its age (about 15 years)
Since the death of Salvatori and the departure of chief designer, Giovanni Montiglio, NSRs fortunes have been mixed.
There was a period where many thought that NSR had lost their Mojo.
Then came the Corvette C7R and the Mercedes GT3. Both top performing cars. NSR were back!
Given the background of NSR's catalogue, a move to produce an open wheel racer might surprise some.
However, a quality built, long can inline suspension pod car has become a rarity at retailers over the last 18 months.
The top car in this class has been the AllSlotCar generic F1, produced in Turin by Ostorero.
It seems that Ortorero took a strategic decision to focus on their beautiful and detailed historic models and cease production of the AllSlotCar.
The AllSlotCar cars and parts became harder and harder to find during late 2018.
By 2019 the remaining painted bodies in retailer stock were looking quite badly out of date and spare wings were impossible to source.
I've always thought that the AllSlotCar had a whiff of NSR design about it.
Performance prioritised over historical detail and the use of UNC4-40 set-screws show a certain alignment of thought.
NSR clearly saw a gap opening in the market and moved very quickly to exploit it, leveraging their in house design and manufacture to get this car to market very quickly.
The NSR 86-89 model harks back to a period when many cars did indeed look very similar.
With a paint job and with some decal work, this NSR 86-89 can be a reasonable approximation to most of the cars of that period.
The Tech and Dimensions
Chassis 1.2mm thick black resin showing the NSR logo, "made in Italy" and " formula 86-89"
Rear wheels : NSR air hub 13mm wide
Rear tyre diameter (when fitted) 19.6mm
Rear outer axle width 67mm
Rear Axle tubes (factory fit alternatives to stoppers) 9.5mm fitted between wheel and bearing.
Front axle outer width 68mm
Front axle spacer : 2mm on each side.
Front tyres 9.5mm wide, 19mm diameter.
Motor NSR King 21k rpm, 350 G/Cm "purple wrap" fitted with 2xNSR4851 screws.
NSR 7010-10 tooth "easy" pinion.
NSR 6327AL 27 tooth black crown , Alloy as a factory fit !
Crown is factory fitted LHD , the motor is factory fit to run anti clockwise as per NSRs anglewinder cars
Gearing ratio. 2.7
Final gearing : 22.8mm per motor revolution.
Guide length 94.5mm (guide hole centre to rear axle centre)
Weight : 75g of which the body is 10.55g (without screws)
Wiring: NSR4823 white
Eyelets NSR4821
Guide : Factory push fit guide. Blade 5.8mm deep, 16.4mm long
Braids. 0.2mm copper race braids (not tinned)
Red (hard) Motor pod, inline long can, 5 suspension points.
No suspension is provided on the factory-fit car.
Pod mounted with screws in the front 3 mount points only.
Ride height : 0.7mm out of the box.
The chassis has a front spoiler protection as part of the design.
The Body attaches to the chassis with two screws.
There are set-screw fitting holes to level the front wing and chassis.
Initial bench testing.
How does NSR's proud "ready to race" motto hold up? Quite well as it turns out.
The only build problem was a slightly loose rear wheel.
The car is built with a lot of race-float on the pod and the body.
The magnet and its plastic cover were removed before testing.
In Rolling-Road testing, the car ran straight out of the box.
Bench testing on the rolling road indicates 7.4 MPS at 12V which is the expected number for the motor, ratio and tyre size..
Inspection on the setup plate showed the ride height to be lower than expected at 0.7mm
The track facing motor wrap was razored off to prevent it scraping the track in the next stage of testing.
The setup plate showed that the front wheels were lying uncontrolled and heavy on the plate so fitting the enclosed set screws was the next step.
Opening the set screw pack, there was a surprise:
2xUNC4-40 screws as per every other NSR car
and
4x0.9mm set screws.
0.9mm on an NSR? Did I miss a meeting?? I've never seen 0.9m on an NSR.
As it turns out, the 0.9mm set screws appear to be for the upper and lower front axle adjustment.
When fitting these screws, during the first 5mm of travel, the screws will slide right in.
Only when the screws get closer to the axle do they bind and cut so that they can be screwed in.
Be aware that some drivers will not fit through the chassis' hole to drive the set screws.
My " Sloting+ " driver was certainly a very tight fit.
On the track.
1. Ninco.
NascotWood Slot Car Club - Herts, Watford
Apart from fitting the set screws and magnet removal, no upgrades or adjustments were made.
Started quite carefully, then ramped up the attack during a three minute practice session.
The car aquitted itself quite well showing no bad behaviours.
There was a sluggish feel to the car but I will put this down to the evening's racing class being "sportscar", a grid full of lightweight NSR Moslers with 25KRPM motors. Consequently the controller was at sportscar settings and so was my brain.
Clearly there is potential in this car. Lots of it.
2. Scalextric sport (polyurethane coated)
LSCC Wood Green, Haringey, London.
The club mandates Urethane rear tyres.
The car was fitted with Urethane tyres on "NSR F1" wheels. A pair of wheels bought about two years ago with trued and glued NSR Ultras.
The tyres were burned long ago (when they were fitted to an AllSlotCar for the 2018 season) and urethanes were fitted, trued and glued for club racing at WoodGreen at the same diameter as the factory fitted tyres in the spec above.
Axle stoppers replaced the axle tubes to bring the axle width out to 68mm while retaining control over the spindle to contrate boss faces.
Right off the start line, the car was stable, predictable and quick.
In practise, against the cars that were running that night (slot.it group c) the car was really showing its pedigree.
There were 4 other new 86-89s at the track being tested This trend is growing quickly.
Remembering how the race class of the night can colour my perceptions of a car, I recalibrated the controller and brain by running a few laps with the AllSlotCar.
Perceptions from the comparison:
The NSR seems nippier through the tighter corners, the AllSlot smoother and faster through the wider high speed bends.
The AllSlot seems more stable on corner exit, the NSR more predictable on corner entry.
A "One on One" technical comparison with the AllSlotCar.
There are other long can inline F1 cars out there...
There are also cars that are being produced right now by small manufacturers that would fit into the same class...
However, for the purposes of comparison, I'll stick with the ASC, a car I know well and have raced hard.
Co-incidentally, Rear axle width dimensions are within a millimetre of each other.
68 mm is the max for LSCC and is the max that was in place at NWSCC in 2018 for this class of racing.
Note that the NSR cannot be easily adjusted in factory trim because axle tubes are the factory fit and adjustment would require axle stoppers.
Guide length
The guide length (guide centre pin to the centre of the rear axle) is significantly longer on the AllSlot.
At 94.5mm the NSR is 10 mm shorter on guide length.
Longer guide length gives greater cornering stability making the rear end of the car less likely to oversteer out of control.
In clubs where multiple manufacturer's cars are on track at the same time, guide length may have an impact, however, I suspect that many clubs will invoke an "NSR 86-89 only" class of racing, especially those clubs where open wheel racing has been missing from their calendar for many years.
As a base comparison to a car we probably all know, the 86-89 guide length is 6mm shorter than the NSR Mosler.
Pod and suspension.
Both the AllSlot and the NSR have five mount points for the pod.
The AllSlot pod has all five points ahead of the rear axle.
The NSR has two of the mounts points behind the rear axle, however, for the factory fit car, these are not used.
The ASC has a pod option for a 0.5mm offset.
NSR have never offered offset options however, the factory fit pod on the 86-89 is offset approximately 0.15mm
Front wheel width
The NSR measures-in at 68mm
The AllSlot factory fit is approximately 65mm. However, whereas the AllSlot can be significantly narrowed (see pic) due to the narrow axle mounts , the NSR cannot. Removing the 2mm axle spacers would only bring the front in to 64mm.
Body
The bodies are generics representing different eras of F1 racing.
The AllSlot represents cars of the time just before the hybrid era.
The NSR is wider and square as per the cars of the late 80s
Digital
The bulkier NSR body does seem to provide just enough room to fit a digital chip.
This is a surprise, NSR don't seem to engage the digital market at all.
Whether accidentally or by design, a chip will fit upright into the side pods with a fly lead led emitter.
There has never been a possibility of fitting a chip into an AllSlot car. No space.
In Summary
There are a lot of possibilities for the NSR 86-89.
- For shelf queen collectors, NSR have a handful of pre painted liveries that will be delivered soon.
- For concors builders, the car can be painted and decaled to represent most cars from the period.
- For home racers, The shorter NSR guide length will make it more suitable for home tracks with R1 curves (compared to the AllSlot)
- For club racers, A new car to replace the AllSlot for which parts are now impossible to find.
- For clubs, there is now the possibility to replace their existing open-wheeled racing class (or to introduce a new class of racing ) with a car produced by a quality Scuderia where cars and parts are readily available and a varied grid is guaranteed.
NSR 86-89 ? Nice one!
Alan Wilkinson
AKA "Nonfractal"
More pics stored in the following link
https://ibb.co/album/f4GJtv
Feedback and comments always welcome, especially if I have made tehnical or historical error.



















