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Another one of those where it's difficult to know where to post it.

This car came to me as a bit of a project. 

   

An ex-racer, with McLaren wheels and oversized rear tyres, a vac-formed driver platform and engine, hotter motor and a straight through back axle (no diff.) Crucially however, the rear spoiler was intact, as was the roll bar and one mirror, although the front spoiler had suffered race damage and been repainted.
 
The plan was to combine it with a speculative 'donor' purchase, made almost two years ago, of a more common - and totally standard - silver 'Test' version, with body damage and a wrecked spoiler.

The yellow body was carefully stripped of its 'racer' parts - the vac-formed interior and engine 'detail'. All traces of adhesive were then removed from the inside before the silver car donated the fully detailed cockpit, driver, engine, standard chassis platform and all the running gear, including the correct wheels, tyres and diff'.

Finally the silver front splitter/spoiler was swapped in from the donor, to replace the race-weary item on the yellow car.

Originally I thought of this as the yellow car being restored with a re-chassis but now I'm not so sure. Has the silver car been re-bodied?

Anyway, a very satisfying project that's given me a lovely #5 Shadow and a pile of donor parts, some of which have already been pressed into use elsewhere. More of that in another post.