The Clinic Model Thread

[hurstg01]

Le Man, great shot!

[Le Man]

Originally Posted by Le Man

Gordon at the pumps!!

(clickable)

This image was "printed" at thumbnail size in Autocar and I have enlarged it somewhat, sorry about the quality.

Thanks Greg,

I think the shot above was done for a Shell promotion.

You better have a couple more then!!

These have been clipped from Autosport magazine.



This one, is for our very good friend Roger.

[Peloton25]

Originally Posted by Le Man

I think the shot above was done for a Shell promotion.

You are correct - a Shell commercial - there's a small comment about this in "Driving Ambition". I made a version of this shot from the tiny thumbnail found in DA once - I'll have to see how it compares when I get home.

Pretty funny though - putting petrol in a car that has no engine.

>8^)
ER

[Peloton25]

Here's (my) version of the gas pump image - you get reasonable results enlarging it in Photoshop, but it's not much better than the one Le Man shared.



>8^)
ER

[Le Man]

I forgot that pump pic was in DA

Time for another article



Enjoy the read.

[svxit]

From "The Supercar: An Evolution of Speed." This is well worth picking up, for those [one or two] who don't yet have it.

[Le Man]

Couple more.

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[hurstg01]

[Peloton25]

There aren't too many photos of the Clinic Model in circulation wearing it's yellow paint so it was cool to get this new (old) one:



>8^)
ER

[Le Man]

Great find Erik,

Anymore, where this one came from?

[Peloton25]

Nope - it came from scans someone sent me of a French magazine's reprint of the original AutoCar F1 road test. There's one other new photo in this version of the article showing them fixing the test equipment to XP4 with Gordon Murray looking on that I'll put up here somewhere soon.

>8^)
ER

[ExoticSpotting]

I feel stupid asking this, what exactly is the clinic model? I realize that it is a very early F1, but what exactly is it? Was it a development car to test design features that didn't make it to the production car? Is there any connection between 'clinic' and 'Uneo Clinic'?

[Peloton25]

Think of the Clinic Model as a full scale, non-functional, static model of the F1. Rather than retype it all, you will find an expanded version of that answer in this thread:

Clinic Model - Singapore Intl Motor Show in 1992

Also there is no relation between "Ueno Clinic" and the "Clinic Model" - just a coincidence in the naming.

>8^)
ER

[roger_ph]

This one, is for our very good friend Roger.

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Very nice, Martin - thank you

[ExoticSpotting]

Originally Posted by Peloton25

Think of the Clinic Model as a full scale, non-functional, static model of the F1. Rather than retype it all, you will find an expanded version of that answer in this thread:

Clinic Model - Singapore Intl Motor Show in 1992

Also there is no relation between "Ueno Clinic" and the "Clinic Model" - just a coincidence in the naming.

>8^)
ER

Thanks for the clarifacation, I've always been pretty confused about that.