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15/06/2022 6:24 pm Â
Finally I have all five Ferraris from the 1981 Le Mans race. The Bellancauto car was unusual with a long tapered snout, unlike the other Ferrari BBs. Sadly, it was a DNF. I actually got this model almost two years ago, but it was made without Le Mans scrutinering decals. Took me forever to get the correctly sized ones and modify them for the correct "LGTx" class. I think I have as much in decals as I do the diecast. I once had an AMR white metal kit of this car but was never happy with the car's shape - too high, unusual for an AMR.
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15/06/2022 7:54 pm Â
Too bad, since they sponsored it! Guess you still have the "AMR" car though! 😆Â
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15/06/2022 8:31 pm Â
@karl Nope, it's gone. I have a bunch of Spark, Quartzo, Best, and maybe other diecasts and resin models sporting the old "AMR" script though. And somehow Replicarz got away with the Johnny Lightning Specials that won Indy. It would be an interesting photoessay to post all the models that have modelmakers' logo decals or full sponsorship liveries on them, whether made by those makers or someone else.
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15/06/2022 8:32 pm Â
@karl Nope, it's gone. I have a bunch of Spark, Quartzo, Best, and maybe other diecasts and resin models sporting the old "AMR" script though. And somehow Replicarz got away with the Johnny Lightning Specials that won Indy. It would be an interesting photoessay to post all the models that have modelmakers' logo decals or full sponsorship liveries on them, whether made by those makers or someone else.
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15/06/2022 9:31 pm Â
Sorry, I was just joking since your Centauria has the AMR logo, you still have "the AMR"! Bad joke...
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15/06/2022 9:57 pm Â
@karl Oh! Well I guess I have a lot of AMRs then!
I may have told this before but I'll repeat the story. Many years ago there was a display of vintage cars in Knoxville and a collector there (named Jack Daniels, I kid you not) had some uber-rare vintage racers. These included what I recall was the 1/1 of this 1982 512BB by Best:Â
Or one of the other 512BB/LMs. Anyway, you can see the AMR decal just behind the rear wheel. I got to talking with him, told him there was a model of the car out there and pointed to the sticker on the car. He had no idea what it was and had mistaken the cursive "A" as an "S", never finding out what SMR was. I corrected him - I wonder if he ever found the AMR model?
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