In Progress: Tyrrell P34

[lotusmark2]

Just beutiful, my favorite F1 car of all time and yours looks great!!!

[mech0t0]

Great job! The engine looks very realistic!!!

[mike@af]

Excellent build. But man those things are funny looking, especially when they are racing around turns.

[RallyRaider]

Looks great Marcel, with your username I guess you'll be building a 1/12th P34 next?

Mike, how dare you call a GP winning car "funny looking"!

[Layla's Keeper]

It's funnier looking than a lot of non-GP winning machines.


Prettiest F1 car never to win a race - the Scarab Offenhauser

[RallyRaider]

Wasn't trying to start a competition. Calling a Scarab an F1 car is a bit of a stretch IMHO Can't say I agree with you about it being pretty, I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

[Layla's Keeper]

An F1 car in 1959 that would've held it's head high with the Lancia/Ferrari D50's and Alfa Romeo 250F's, that's what the Scarab was. Damn John Cooper had to bring in those rear engines and screw things up for Lance Reventlow and this lovely car. Used a 250hp 2.4L DOHC four cylinder with desmodromic valvetrain, the revered Offenhauser mill that dominated Indy for three decades. I consider the Scarab one of the best should've beens in all of F1 racing. If it wasn't for that damn John Cooper and those little Cooper-Climaxes, we would've seen this car take the first American driver to victory in an American car long before Gurney and his Eagles.

Ah well, we both know there's never going to be peace between a diehard tifosi and a Montoya fan.

[RallyRaider]

I am dumbfounded. Is it a trait of Ferrari fans to simply not pay attention?

[Layla's Keeper]

Heh, nah. But it's our trait to always want to win whatever's out there to win. That's what makes us tifosi .

So even though you were clearly joking, I had to stand up for a beautiful machine built by the finest Indy, SCCA, and NHRA craftsmen the United States had to offer. Especially considering my roots go with that machine. I may love F1, love my MG, love touring cars and love Le Mans, but my roots, the people who taught me to love cars and love good engineering, are all a bunch of open wheel oval track guys who run cars descended from the ancestors of the Scarab - the Millers, Kuzmas, Kurtis Krafts, and Watsons.

It's all good, man. But I have a very very emotional tie to the TRUE American open wheel race cars. Not IRL. Not CART. Both of them betrayed us a long time ago. The true open wheel race cars in America wear initials like USAC, AVSS, ISMA, HOSS, WoO, and MSA.

So, in short, knew you were joking but still had to speak up on behalf of a car that's a part of my open wheel heritage.

[RallyRaider]

No I wasn't joking, just wondering how somebody with such firm opinions on F1 can do so whilst knowing so little about it. Most of the rabid Ferrari fans in the F1 forum are like that.

You called me a Montoya fan, which is unobservant on your part but not really a problem because you don't really know me. What I was astounded at is what I can only hope are typographical errors in your post I admit I know very little about Scarabs, other than they are an amusing footnote to F1 history. But you say you are a tiffosi (whatever that truly means to you). If you are going to fein a knowledge of F1 please do a little research first. Alfa Romeo 250F? do you mean Maserati 250F perhaps? Even if you do what does that have to do with 1959 or 1960? Unless tooling around at the back of the grid in obsolete cars consists of “holding your head up high”?

Okay that is an Alfa/Maserati issue, of no importance to tiffosi right! You guys only care for Ferrari’s (even ones with Lancia heritage) so you know your facts about D50’s don’t you? So how many of them were even on the grid in 1959?

Sorry to take this tone but I’m really annoyed by people who make stuff up.

[p9o1r1sche]

NIce job on that Tyrrell. The white decals came out pretty opague. I built the '76 version (like Sennake) using an original issue kit and the decals are very transparent.

[Layla's Keeper]

Not many since that was the year of the 246 Dino F1 car that Mike Hawthorn won in, but it came more readily to mind.

I admit I goofed on the Maser, and am a bit ashamed since it's really a pretty car and trumped the Ferrari Supersqualo.

And I was looking back on what I posted, beyond the Scarab stuff I was ranting and raving in a Nyquil and aspirin 4 in the morning haze. Been fighting off a bout with strep throat and probably should've been sleeping instead of posting. My apologies.

[Marcel34]

Thanks all for the nice reactions. Next up will be the Sauber Mercedes C9. (34 is my preferred # for online Nascar racing )

Cya
Marcel

[TvD]

Originally Posted by Marcel34

Thanks all for the nice reactions. Next up will be the Sauber Mercedes C9. (34 is my preferred # for online Nascar racing )

Hi Marcel,

Is that the Tamiya 1/24??

Tim

[Marcel34]

Originally Posted by TvD

Hi Marcel,

Is that the Tamiya 1/24??

Tim

Hi Tim,

yup, it's the 1/24 model. I've seen 1 or 2 built here and really liked the quality of the kit, had it in my stash for almost a year now.

Marcel