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I have to start somewhere ;-) This one has just been released. Made by the same company who did the 911 engine model which was discussed here last year. Makes for a perfect Christmas gift
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Joris ,I see it's next to your legos. Steven.

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And a book on John Cleese.....

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Yup, tools of the trade
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Indeed sir!

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I was waiting for this one, now Max and I just have to finish the 911 one, it's about half done.
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Joris, is that a roller crank or flat crank? Numbers matching?

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Hi Joris,

Are you in Europe? Trying to find a retailer in US but all the one for sale I can find are in Europe or Japan..
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Pelican has them

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jule block wrote:Pelican has them
Yup, they say they have 100 in stock, but I guess it's 98 now, because I just ordered 2!
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I did the same hopefully the 100 count was correct.

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Perhaps I'm being picky, but the box illustration shows a Carrera exhaust with Spyder-mounted distributors, an arrangement that isn't correct for either car.
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It's a 547 engine, cam driver distributors
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John Brooks wrote:It's a 547 engine, cam driver distributors
Yes John, but they were mounted towards the rear in a Carrera.
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#15 Post by Joris Koning »

Hi Jon,

The model actually has several mistakes/particulars I have not assembled it but some things I noted while going through the parts:

- Gears are straight cut and not gleason spiral bevel
- later style (C2) generator stand
- Exhaust, as pointed out by you. The kit also comes with a pea shooter but one for a street car and not a mid engined car
- Later style heads, in their defense from 62/63 onwards these were the only ones available and were also used on the Elva's and late Spyders
- Early spyder would have had 4-bolts are DCM carbs

I am sure I will find more. At the same time it has many cool features such as actual drag levers, a build up crank with one piece rods just like the Hirths etc. Hope to get started this weekend and will report back
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