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16/10/2024 7:52 am
16/10/2024 8:35 am
a later Vitesse
Frank Reed
Chesapeake, VA
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16/10/2024 10:43 am
The unique thing about these 1/1 cars is that the doors can be used for either side.
Something I was unaware of until about a year ago. Tu-tone paint really helped to disguise that fact.....and yes, If I ever buy one, I must have a trunk. 😀
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16/10/2024 10:46 am
@frank That houndstooth weave looks better (tighter ) than Sunstar's release. I like it. 😎
16/10/2024 4:59 pm
@chris When I was in an English car club decades ago, club members had taken on the task of completing a Metro restoration in these same colors. The owner had passed and this volunteer effort was being done to help his widow.
And this reminds me - I need to get one of these little buggers by Vitesse.
16/10/2024 7:54 pm
To show how small this car is, I am attaching a photo from a car show in Naperville, Illinois taken in June 2021. I am the person in the photo, 5 ft 7 inches tall. If you are wondering, the car is not mine.
Ed Davis
Inverness, Illinois, USA
17/10/2024 12:15 am
One of the teachers in my grammar school had a Metropolitan. Some of the 8 grade boys picked it up off the street and left it on the sidewalk.
17/10/2024 5:53 am
One of the teachers in my grammar school had a Metropolitan. Some of the 8 grade boys picked it up off the street and left it on the sidewalk.
Well that was just grammatically incorrect!! 
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17/10/2024 6:31 am
the 8 grade boys picked it up off the street and left it on the sidewalk.
Those boys were not very nice. In fact, they were quite nash-ty. 😏 😏 😏
17/10/2024 10:19 am
@charles-rockett Scads of them in British Columbia, Canada back in the day Charles.
17/10/2024 10:39 am
@jack-dodds Makes sense: we used to see them in Northern Rhodesia too (though I was very young 👶).
17/10/2024 10:59 am
And of course for those who found the standard car a little small for transporting the whole family, there was always the limo version . . .
Graeme.M. Ogg
London U.K.
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17/10/2024 11:57 am
@graeme-ogg What the hell is that? 😲 😲 😲 Is it a custom one-off build, and what's the scale? 😳
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17/10/2024 12:53 pm
Well, you know I can be relied on to lower the tone of any discussion.
I knocked this fantasy together using two Vitesse 1:43 Metropolitans. The stacked headlights are units from a '59 Impala (also by Vitesse) rotated through 90 degrees, and the vertical rear lamps were pieces of scrap plastic. Given the way the Vitesse body was made from separate upper and lower parts with a chromed plastic interlayer, after all the cutting I ended up with eight separate body parts to be fitted together, so it was actually a lot of work just to provide a cheap Xmas joke for the old Model Auto Review back in 2000.
As usual, I apologize unreservedly for any aesthetic distress caused to readers.
Graeme.M. Ogg
London U.K.