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22/02/2023 6:51 pm
Beautiful Ferrari's - is #18 by MadYero? I have seen some of their built-ups online and hey look very nice. From Japan or France?
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22/02/2023 7:13 pm
Thanks Karl, a typo now corrected. Not sure about origin. Madyero also go under the names Gemini and Remember and I understand built some resin parts, at least, in Sebring, Florida. Sorry, don't know more.
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22/02/2023 7:16 pm
Yes, I still have the John Day built, but very crude by modern standards. Most that I still have are unbuilt and likely to remain so.
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23/02/2023 10:20 pm
A few more of the participants in the 1961 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Of the 55 cars that competed, only 22 finished and the rest broke down before races end with 33 cars that were DNF (Did Not Finish).
Here are a few more of the finishers and several of the DNFs.
6th Place. Bang 47086, Ferrari 250 GT SWB #20 Equipe Nationale Belge, Bob Grossman /Andre Pilette, 6th overall, 309 laps completed.
9th Place. Spark S0506 Triumph TRS #27 24h Peter Bolton & Keith Ballisat, 9th overall, 284 laps completed.
10th Place. Spark S4682 Porsche 356 GTL Abarth #36, 10th overall Porsche KG Herbert Linge / Ben Pon. 284 laps completed.
DNF. Spark S8207 LOTUS ELITE MK14 #40, B. KOSSELEK/P. MASSENEZ 13th overall, 267 laps
DNF. Spark S0807 Healey 3000 from 1961 Le Mans Car #21, D. Stoop/J. Beckaert DNF lap 254, engine
DNF. Jouef Evolution 1961 Ferrari 250 GT SWB Le Mans #16, DNF lap 162, transmission.
DNF. TOP MODEL TMC286 Ferrari 250GT SWB #19, DNF 76 laps, Electric
DNF. Spark S8208 LOTUS ELITE #51 C. Allison / M. Mckee, DNF lap 102, Engine.
DNF. VITESSE VCC99059 ASTON MARTIN DB4 ZAGATO #3 DAVINSON/STILLWELL DNF 25 laps, Engine
Topic starter
02/03/2023 11:50 pm
Hi Harv.
I have started a post for next week about the 1962 Le Mans race actions and results.
Please let me know if this creates any problems with any efforts you have underway.
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03/03/2023 12:05 am
Ed Davis
Inverness, Illinois, USA
03/03/2023 9:32 am
@david-green No problem David - will this be a continuation of this series? I just checked and I have 8 (6 are Ferraris).
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03/03/2023 10:14 am
Yes, similar to the 50s format and continuing here. There were a lot of Ferraris in this race and you have a significant number which I look forward to seeing.
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06/03/2023 7:22 pm
1962 24 Hours of Le Mans
The 1962 24 Hours of Le Mans was the 30th Grand Prix of Endurance, and took place on 23 and 24 June 1962.
Ferrari was the dominant marque in the race with 18 entries – the biggest representation from any marque at a Le Mans. Sports-car specialist Abarth was next with 9 cars.Aside from Ferrari and Maserati, a number of companies arrived with new prototypes including Aston Martin, Tojeiro, TVR, Abarth and OSCA. The CSI windscreen rules were influencing design, favouring closed-cars, and only 6 of the 55 starters were open-top.
Saturday was fine and sunny. At the start, Graham Hill was the first under the Dunlop Bridge but got into a drag race down the long straight with Parkes in the GTO prototype. With both cars braking late, the Aston Martin punted the Ferrari off into the sandtrap at Mulsanne corner, immediately costing him many laps. On the second lap Olivier Gendebien, Ferrari 330/TRI/LM No.6 managed to pass Hill cleanly on the straight. On the third lap the TVR became the first retirement when Peter Bolton pitted with all his water gone, long before any replenishment was permitted.
For once a dry night dawned into a sunny day. Only 33 of the 55 starters were still running. Things were falling Ferrari's way until at 4.45am the Rodriguez car suddenly broke its final drive. This finally allowed Phil Hill & Gendebien in NO.6 to ease off and rest a potentially troublesome clutch. There was still drama for Gendebien though when he narrowly missed a big accident with a backmarker that was stopped in the middle of the road after spinning in the dawn light.
Positions remained relatively static for the last four hours, excepting the American Ferrari No. 17, that slipped to sixth with starter-motor problems. Hill and Gendebien in the Ferrari No.6 finished a comfortable 5 laps ahead of the Frenchmen. Noblet/Guichet in Ferrari 250 GTO No.19, improved from their 3rd-place from the previous year, winning the GT division and finishing a clear 12 laps ahead of the No. 22 Belgian GTO.
The rest of the field has clusters of close finishes: In the last hour, Cunningham's Jaguar E-Type Coupe No.10. finally managed to get past their British rivals and finished 4th. Peter Sargent's Jaguar E-Type Coupe No.9 car had a broken engine mount then its gearbox got jammed in top gear but were able to nurse the car home in 5th.
In the end, Herrmann and Barth had a strong finish in the Porsche 356 B Carrera GTL Abarth No.34, despite a failing gearbox, and pushed up to finish 7th, less than a lap ahead of the recovering Lotus Elite Mk 14 No.44. Colin Chapman of Lotus was thrilled to be able to win the Index of Thermal Efficiency (achieving over 20mpg), sharing the prize with the Dubois/Harris Abarth-Simca.
Here are the results and the models associated with the actual race cars.
Ist. No. 6 Ferrari 330 TRI/LM, Olivier Gendebien and Phil Hill, 331 laps.
Starter of France resin, Ferrari 330 TRI/LM.
Western Models white metal, Ferrari 330 TRI/LM.
2nd. No. 19 Ferrari 250 GTO, Pierre Noblet and Jean Guichet, 326 laps.
BBR Models BBR260, Ferrari 250 GTO
Model Box 8464 Ferrari 250 GTO Le Mans #19
3rd. No. 22 Ferrari 250 GTO, Leon Dernier and Jean Blaton, 314 laps.
Kyosho 05121B Ferrari GTO.
4th. No. 10 Jaguar E-Type Coupe, Briggs Cunningham and Roy Salvadore, 310 laps.
Provence Moulage built resin kit, Cunningham aguar E-Type Coupe
Kyosho Cunningham Jaguar Type E Coupe Le Mans.
5th. No. 9 Jaguar E-Type Coupe, Peter Sargent and Peter Lumsden, 310 laps.
BEST 9161-2 1/43 Jaguar E-Type Coupe Le Mans 24H 1962 #8
6th. No.17 Ferrari 250 GTO, Bob Grossman and Glen ‘Fireball’Roberts, 297 laps.
Remember Model built kit, Ferrari 250 GTO 3387GT NART.
7th. No.34 Porsche 356 B Carrera GTL Abarth, Edgar Barth and Hans Herrman, 287 laps.
Spark S1876 7th 24h Le Mans 1962 Porsche 356B Abarth
8th, No.44 Lotus Elite Mk14, David Hobbs and Frank Gardiner, 286 laps.
IXO LMC119 LOTUS ELITE No.44 WINNER CLASS LE MANS
Spark 8210 LOTUS ELITE No.44 WINNER CLASS LE MANS
9th. No.21 Ferrari 250 GT SWB Sperimentale, Ed Hugus and George Reed, 281 laps.
Altaya, Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta Sperimentale
10th. No.39 Alfa Romeo Giulietta SZ, Giancarlo Sala and Marcello de Luca di Lizzano, 281 laps.
Spark Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sport Zagato
11th. No.45 Lotus Elite Mk14, Clive Hunt and Dr.John ‘Mac’ Wyllie, 278 laps.
Spark S8211 1/43 Lotus Elite MK 14 No.45.
More to come!
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06/03/2023 8:50 pm
Well David, here are the ones I have. There are 3 LookSmarts, the 1st place 330 TRI/LM; the NART 250 TRI/61 (DNF), and the 250 GT SWB Drogo "Breadvan" (DNF), entered by SSS Republica di Venezia.
I too have the Kyosho 3rd place GTO No. 22, but also the 2nd place No. 19 car. LookSmart and Kyosho models are great!
Below is the Bang version of the 250GT Sperimentale.
I have Spark's version of the Cunningham jaguar E-Type.
I also have an Ixo Abarth-Simca, but no pic yet (later).
Topic starter
06/03/2023 11:04 pm
Harv, those Looksmart Ferrari models are amazing. Like Karl, I particularly like that breadvan.
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07/03/2023 8:21 pm
1962 24 Hours of Le Mans Continued.
Only 18 cars completed the 1972 Le Mans 24 Hours out of a total of 55.
Here are the final seven finishers and the representative models.
12th. No.35 Porsche 356 B Carrera GTL Abarth, Robert Buchet and Heinz Scheller, 272 laps.
SPARK S1877 Porsche 356B Abarth
13th. No.29 Morgan Plus 4 Super Sports, Chris Lawrence and Richard Shepherd-Baron, 270 laps.
Vitesse L151 Morgan Plus 4 Super Sports.
14th. No.43 Simca Abarth 1300, Claude Dubois and Georges Harris, 255 laps.
Altaya Simca Abarth 1300
15th. No.32 Sunbeam Alpine, Peter Harper and Peter Procter, 268 laps.
SPARK Sunbeam Alpine.
16th. No.53 Panhard CD Dyna Coupe, Andre Guilhauden and Alain Bertaut, 255 laps.
Spark S4710 Panhard CD Dyna Coupe.
17th. No.46 Bonnet Djet, Bernard Consten and Jose Rosinski, 255 laps.
Bizarre BZ521 Bonnet Djet
18th and final finisher, No.50 Bonnet Djet 2 Spider, Paul Armagnac and Gerald Laureau, 253 laps.
No model found for this car.
Here is the Ferrari 'Breadvan' No.16, a DNF (Did Not Finish) car. Great model despite the accident.
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11/10/2025 1:39 pm
@david-green With all the recent interest in vintage Le Mans miniatures, I thought I would resurrect David's series on the post-WW2 races, which previously ended with 1962. Picking up where we left off, 1963 was to be a huge one for Ferrari, with 11 cars entered, including the new 250 P rear-engined car and the 330 LMB. The only possible competitors in the top 3-liter (and up) classes were Lola, Aston Martin, Lister, Maserati, and a couple of 4.7-liter AC Cobra coupes. Ferrari would end up taking the top six spots at race's end. It was a race of attrition, with only 12 cars classified as finishing the race, plus two non-classified finishers. Porsche 718s had the 2-liter class all to themselves.
Now to the models I have. LookSmart made an excellent replica of the 250 P #21 winner, a works car driven by Scarfiotti and Bandini. This marked the first all-Italian win (team, car manufacturer, and drivers) and the first win for a car with the engine behind the driver. No front-engine car would ever win again.
Second (and 1st in 3.0-liter GT) went to the Equipe Nationale Belge GTO of Jean Blaton ("Beurlys") and Langlois van Ophem. My model is the superb zamac issue by Kyosho, with engine detail and an opening trunk.
Third was another works 250 P, driven by Parkes and Maglioli, also by LookSmart.
I don't have a model of the 4th place 250 GTO, but I do have the 5th place #12 330 LMB entered by Maranello Concessionaires and driven by Salmon/Sears. Model by BBR.
The 6th-place NART 250 GTO is another car I don't have (but wish I did). The Rover-BRM turbine car could have been 7th, but was a non-classified car due to its prototype powerplant. Bizarre made a nice model of this one.
Team Cunningham came home in 9th place with this E-Type hardtop, a diecast from Kyosho.
Now to the DNFs. The 250 P of Surtees/Mairesse had its race end with a fuel spill and fire at lap 252. Once again, model by LookSmart.
The Hobbs/Attwood Lola Mk. 6 GT was out by accident on lap 151. Model by Spark.
The Gurney/Hall NART 330 LMB lost its gearbox at lap 126. I just got this TecnoModel last week, a new model for 2025.
Last in my collection is another Cunningham E-Type, out after only 8 laps. My Spark model is autographed by Augie Pabst (but not his co-driver, Walt Hansgen).
So David (and others), what can you add?
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