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05/11/2026 10:50 am
If you're near my age, you'll remember "LSMFT" as "Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco". This Tyrrell-Ford 004 started life as works and spare car for Jackie Stewart and Patrick Depailler. For the record, Jackie Stewart hated the one-off nose design and refused to drive it. Its Formula 1 chassis was powered by the 3.0 liter Ford-Cosworth V8. It was bought by South African promoter Alex Blignaut and raced under Blignaut Lucky Strike Racing and driven by Eddie Keizan, It was raced in the World Championship South African Grand Prix in events like Kyalami in 1973 and 1974.
This is an early Exoto model released in 2000 and, unfortunately came with an Eddie Keizan driver plug. I tried to avoid the driver included models as I rather see an open cockpit.
05/11/2026 11:32 am
For a nearly 27 yr-old model it, of course, holds up very well. 😉 Your pics are A-1, but I assume even if you were to remove that driver, there would be ZERO cockpit detail to see. Therefore, everything would have to be fabricated - by you - and who the hell wants to do all that? 😉 🙄 😖 😲
And.... "LSMFT" means nothing to me - that was B.C. for sure. "Before Chris." 😀
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05/11/2026 12:31 pm
@chris I would imagine all the detail would be there. But there's the matter of the plug being glued in and what damage would occur. Also the locked up belt restraints may or may not survive the removal. They are probably the only new part besides the driver plug on this 'piloted version'. In that era, the model's first run was w/o a driver and if you couldn't get one before it sold out, the next run was with the plug. These early driver plugs were relatively crude with merely a visor covered helmet in proper livery. Over the years the drivers were much better sculpted and painted to look like the actual driver.
This post was modified 5 days ago by Rich Sufficool
05/11/2026 1:32 pm
God yes; to this very day watching TV as a kid back then the commercials stuck in my head. Say LSMFT and I think Lucky Strike and I never smoked. Same thing with the Oscar Mayer song - in my head for good!
Love this model - I had it for a while and let it go. Photo'ed beautifully!
05/11/2026 7:23 pm
Yep Rich, my dad, named Richard, and often called Ritchy, smoked LS and i remember Summer months when he’d be wearing a white t-shirt with a pack rolled up in his sleeve.
Anyone remember the tv ad… guy whistles and says “Mabel, Black Label?” There was also a commercial with two talking beer steins. One shorter than the other.
Found ‘em,,, Schultz & Dooley.
This post was modified 5 days ago 2 times by Steve Jacobs
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06/11/2026 9:29 am
(@100ford2003) I remember both the Lucky Strike jingle and the Carling Black Label commercial. As a matter of fact my grandmother drank Carling black Label beer. If my fading memory serves me correctly, she was the one who let me have my first taste of beer. She didn't smoke Lucky's, she smoked Kent cigarettes.
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06/11/2026 9:42 am
@old-caddys God, I hated Kent cigarettes. Ironically Kent cigarettes were used as currency in communist Romania. Turkey manufactured clones in Kent packaging and flooded the market. Marlboro topped the list in Yugoslavia in the early 1990s when their dinar collapsed. To me, it was a much better choice. LOL
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