If you are interested in the real history of Le Mans cars stop reading now! However, if you like race cars AND racing comics you might enjoy this.
Project started when I cleared up in the attic and came across a old Michel Vaillant comic album. Folks in the US might not this familiar with these comics created back in the ’50s by Jean Graton, except when they have seen the Vaillant movie of 2003 (if not seen, try to get the DVD, very good racing action…).
The comic album in my hands was one of the very early stories (from 1958) covering the duel between the best European and US drivers.
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For the Le Mans race, Michel Vaillant did some testing with a car which attracted my attention. Although models of Vaillant cars had been made over the last decades, these were all 1/43 scale (a few 1/18 scale models are also available since a few years). Trying to make a Vaillant in 1/24 scale, I remembered a vintage Singapore made toy which I had bought very cheap some years ago. This toy (maybe somebody thought about a Ferrari Monza when doing the original mold) comes very close to 1/24 scale and was made of injection-moulded plastic. Most fascinating was the ultra-long hood, which gave the model a comic-like appearance and a good candidate for the 1957 Vaillant Le Mans.
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