Cars from my youth - the 60s ?

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Cars from my youth - the 60s ? - Anthony B - 3rd-Dec-25

In a few months time I hit a big birthday ? Been looking my large collection of bits - especially the old stuff and started renovating and fixing them.

First up are three cars that were my first venture into cars away from Scalextric.

Atlas Gt 40 - I remember trying to build this and the absolutely frustrating time I had trying to mount the car at the rear ?? not sure I figured it out at the time.

Monogram Porsche 904 and Ferrari 330 - loved these cars and raced them till they died ?

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Finished these this week. The Ferrari had a huge hole in the rear deck which I Fixed with Vallejo putty!
The Porsche has a 60s chassis and body, but I had parts from an MRRC body so used some of the parts ?

Cars are sitting a bit high and will fix that when i get back from visiting the kids.

I will be adding more as i go along ?

Let’s see your cars from when you started this fantastic hobby - irrespective of the decade. Looking forward to hearing your stories!!

RE: Cars from my youth - the 60s ? - KensRedZed - 4th-Dec-25

Anthony,

Nostalgic slot cars for sure! Thumbup

I started off with a Strombecker set around 1970.

My two favourites were the GT40, and Chaparral 2D.

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I painted an HO version in it's memory.

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I rebuilt the 2D, and still race it today. (Pic by FotoDoug)

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RE: Cars from my youth - the 60s ? - chrisguyw - 7th-Dec-25

While I have more 1/24 from the early days, here are a few of y 1/32 cars,....most restored/refurbed.

This is a Cooper from my my first set, VIP in 1961 ,.....a few replacement bits along the way but still stock,....and runs great.

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