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Topic starter
04/07/2025 10:26 am
595 HP in this 750 kg Mercedes-Benz W125 'Silver Arrow' with no restraints and sitting against a fuel tank with no roll bar was a recipe for disaster. Here's what happened to British driver Richard Seaman who was leading in the 1939 Belgium Grand Prix when he skidded into a tree on a rain wet curve. No chance of surviving that ruptured fuel tank.
Designed by Rudolf Uhlenhaut for the 1937 Grand Prix circuit and won by Rudolf Caracciola in this #12 car, the W125 was built for minimum weight with no extra room for safety items like a roll bar or other structural protections:
Later it would have various streamlined bodies in '38 and '39 including the super streamlined 'recordwagen' which reached 168.9 mph on a public road!
This CMC model is beautifully done with that supercharged straight 8 an awesome piece of intricate jewelry.
And now, off to the races!!!
04/07/2025 10:28 am
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04/07/2025 11:07 am
No, you're not.I'm going to control my impulses!
I'm going to control my impulses!
I'm going to control my impulses!
I'm going to control my impulses!
I'm going to control my impulses!
No, you're not.
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Topic starter
04/07/2025 1:48 pm
@marty-johnson You wouldn't by any chance be surfing eBay at this moment, are you, Marty?
04/07/2025 3:28 pm
Come on now Marty, forget that James Bond "thing"... we only live once...🎉
04/07/2025 7:31 pm
A gorgeous CMC setup for sure, but it's nothing I collect. Now.... if CMC were to make a German WW II truck, or an 1950's -1960's American race car/hauler combo.... then I'd be in big trouble - those would be must haves for me. 😬 😬 😬
- Stay strong Marty, but on the other hand.... 😏
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Topic starter
05/07/2025 9:17 am
@chris The LO2750 truck was used in WWll and CMC also has the truck in different configurations. You'll need to airbrush the proper paint scheme depending on early or late war colors.
These are in early 'field gray'.
Marty Johnson and Christopher Moroni reacted
05/07/2025 10:29 am
Love open wheel race cars from this era!
John Bono
North Jersey
05/07/2025 11:19 am
"You'll need to airbrush the proper paint scheme depending on early or late war colors."
Yes, I knew you would chime in with this info.... 😏 😏 Two things:
1) Even though these trucks were pressed into service, I'd rather see "other, more common" WW II German trucks. That being said, if CMC actually released one in an authentic WW II livery I'd be interested, because.....
2) ....I'd never "air brush" a thing on a CMC truck. A Yatming, Ertl, Sunstar, etc... no problem, but never would I repaint a CMC unless acquired at a bargain price.
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Topic starter
05/07/2025 12:32 pm
@chris I get it, but wouldn't it be cool to see it in late war camouflage like this Opel Blitz "Maultier" ?
BTW: Schuco has a 1/18 L3500 for $180:
05/07/2025 1:09 pm
@rich-sufficool Yep! I'm aware of those Schuco trucks, but it's the same scenario. I wish THEY would release a WW II variant(s)! 🙄 🤨 For that matter... how come there are NO quality 1/18 American WW II trucks either? Where's are the GMCs or Dodges, etc?
There are SEVERAL 1/18 WW II Jeeps available, but NO trucks! Surely, 1/18 models of these would sell, wouldn't they? 🤔 🤔
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Topic starter
05/07/2025 1:47 pm
@chris I see models like these at shows all the time. Perhaps there are cottage industry resin castings available.
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