Vintage Bentley

[MrAdept]

Nice to see you have a black Bentley there too.

Mark

[whitworthnut]

My favourite.

[burad]

I wish the guys here would get interested in such cars.

[waaytoomuchintothis]

I'm assuming you are referring to where you live, burad. We here at HRW are interested in just about everything with wheels on the ground. Seriously, as you are new here, you may not know that the pre-war racers are a part of slot car stuff that has a long history of the finest modeling around. That Bentley, for example, is one of the most difficult models to make into a slot car. I am slowly cannibalizing two kits from the 1960s to make one car, and the chassis design for these pre-war cars has caused me to "go back to school" after 50 years in slot cars. Its still beating me up. I work a while, get frustrated and go build something else, then come back again. Thank goodness for Pendle. I'd go nuts tuning legitimate wheels for this thing on my lathe.

[whitworthnut]

[waaytoomuchintothis]

Yes, Peter (I still want to call you David for some reason, and I don't even know your brother), it (they) are Airfix kits, each from a different era there. They are two very different shades of green, and the actual parts have distinct changes over time, apparently. Its very interesting to observe as I inventory what parts I have and what I may have to fabricate.