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26/04/2021 7:30 am
 66 Sunbeam Tiger (LDM 94 Lansdowne/Brooklin)Â
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Frank Reed
Chesapeake, VA
Topic starter
26/04/2021 8:14 am
How many of us have done this?
Frank Reed
Chesapeake, VA
26/04/2021 9:43 am
One of my favorite Lansdowne models.
26/04/2021 9:52 am
How many of us have done this?
I need a few of those in 1/43 scale!!!!  I had that tail when I was a kid!!! 
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26/04/2021 9:58 am
Great little sports car. Drive one in 1966 just after it came out. I could have bought one new in Canada for $3100 all in. Â The Rootes, Canada General Manager was a good friend of my father. Instead I bought a Sunbeam Minx new for $1600. We had a new baby and my wife thought the Minx a more appropriate choice. I still have regrets.
Thanks Guys for the good reminder.
John Kuvakas and John Kuvakas reacted
26/04/2021 10:40 am
How about a blue Alpine? Model by Spot-On of Northern Ireland.
26/04/2021 12:06 pm
@frank I was in my late teens when this became a fad. If I had had that hanging out of the gas tank on my '56 Merc, my buddies would set it on fire. "Dork" wasn't a term back then but that's what I would have been. Heck, by the mid to late '60s, there was no more foxtails or fuzzy dice. 20 or 30 years later, they were nostalgic accessories for LeadSled events.
26/04/2021 1:33 pm
@karl The alternative back then was Gulf's pair of thin plastic horseshoes that would stick on your bumper. We had some, and so did this Ford GT.
26/04/2021 10:07 pm
@karl The alternative back then was Gulf's pair of thin plastic horseshoes that would stick on your bumper. We had some, and so did this Ford GT.
Wow, I completely missed those! Very unlucky!