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20/02/2024 3:35 pm Â
I'm very glad to introduce Ford 999 by RIO. This is a legendary car built by Henry Ford in 1902 after he made up a decision to leave Detroit Automobile Company and to found new which would become modern Ford Motor Copmany. To realize his plans Mr Ford had to prove his techical opportuniies.
So, he built 2 racing cars. One of them, 999 was driven by famous Barney Oldfield, who managed to win Alexander Winton and to show new lap record in 1902.
1/43 model of this car was built by Itelian manufactuer RIO in 1980s. It very old model, packaged into 2 side acrylic display case. It has many techical details like enormous radiator, high detailed wheels and reverse gear. To my mind it's good model of the great car.
If you are interested in this history, I'll be very happy to discuss this topic.
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20/02/2024 4:17 pm Â
Not being a huge 1/43 collector, I did make a point to buy this one years ago because of all the history associated with it. When Exoto released their 1/18 version (arguably the quintessential 999 replica ) that was a must-have-model. I like RIO models, they're all pretty neat! 😎Â
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20/02/2024 4:21 pm Â
What a great-looking 1/43 replica ! It is well-detailed and certainly a part of automotive history.
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20/02/2024 7:18 pm Â
@chris I did the same thing. Bought ‘em both for their history. The Exoto is unbelievable in its detail.
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20/02/2024 8:34 pm Â
Very cool model. I've seen the 1:1 at the Henry Ford Museum.Â
John Merritt
South Lyon, Michigan - USA
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20/02/2024 11:43 pm Â
I did the same thing. Bought ‘em both for their history. The Exoto is unbelievable in its detail.
Yes! The fact that the hand crank ACTUALLY turns the engine over, from the bottom you can see pistons moving is all next-level detail...then, add to that those beautifully done SCALE spoke rims and, well... it's a showstopper! 😎Â
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Fred Eliseeff and John Kuvakas reacted
20/02/2024 11:44 pm Â
I've seen the 1:1 at the Henry Ford Museum.Â
I've actually been there and have seen it too. Great car, great place!
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Fred Eliseeff and John Kuvakas reacted
21/02/2024 12:41 pm Â
Brumm and Rio both made this one back in the day (from Italy), so I had to get both actually!
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21/02/2024 2:20 pm Â
Brumm also made the 1904 Lake St. Clair 999.
This car was driven by Henry Ford in person in 1904 on the frozen surface of Lake St. Clair to a speed of 91.37 mph, covering one mile in 39.4 seconds. It is one of the two big racing cars built experimentally by the not yet famous Ford. It had a giant 18.8-liter four-cylinder engine without gears or brakes, with a rudimentary clutch and a dangerously huge flywheel. Although the record lasted less than a month, Henry Ford is officially listed as being the fastest man on earth at the time.Â
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Topic starter
22/02/2024 6:21 pm Â
It's nice, that Brumm made 2 versions of Ford 999. So, we have an opportunity to reconstruct all this history in 1/43 scale.
I tried to find some materials in intrernet to understand what was happened with the cars indeed.
If I understand correct Ford has built 2 cars-red and yellow colour. Red got a name 999 and yellow called Arrow.
There weren't a lot of differences between them. So, on the Karl's photo we can see 2 these cars, red- RIO, yellow -Brumm.
in 1903 yellow car was crashed in the racings, but a year later was rebuilt and got many new details. This 1904 version was modelled by Brumm and represented on Paul's photo.
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John Kuvakas and Paul Rouffa reacted
22/02/2024 7:18 pm Â
Thank you for the additional background information, Fred!
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