The Roaring Season

The Alfa Romeo and Talbot Lago have been re-released by SMER and are readily available at around $20 AUD. The original Merit kits built up are not difficult to get off eBay and usually go for between $50 to $100. For new Japanese kits it is cheaper to get them direct from Japan. https://hlj.com/

Thanks Bill. I wasn't aware of that. Just started bidding for a Talbot on Ebay and luckily, I have a UK address. Will have a go at an Alfa too.

The Merit moulds for the Syracuse Connaught and Aston DB3S went to Premier and re-released. Still hard to find !

I have a couple of Hong Kong knockoffs of the Syracuse Connaught, same scale and all. The Merit kits were available for a long time, well into the sixties having first been released in 1956. https://primotipo.com/tag/merit-models/

bill hollingsworth wrote:The Alfa Romeo and Talbot Lago have been re-released by SMER and are readily available at around $20 AUD. The original Merit kits built up are not difficult to get off eBay and usually go for between $50 to $100. For new Japanese kits it is cheaper to get them direct from Japan. https://hlj.com/

I made a couple slot cars from my Smer kits.

Another couple of Merits on the grid !

....................and probably the nicest

Click on this https://photos.app.g...F1aFWZ8odSXkmj1 for pictures of our 2017 1/24th scale Vintage Slot Car Grand Prix. Our feature race the Adelaide Grand Prix is for 50's open wheelers, amongst which there are several SMER Alfa Romeos and Talbot Lagos and the odd Merit.

Sorry Bill, the link doesn't work in the truncated form above.

Try this. https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNbSeyQvrbiuzoL2nqHGhnwwc6N2_v7R9BUiVtAs0QAilcpSkxY1a1CyQr6clZcPg?key=SEY1Qm03TEtsMWs4VFRIQzJiUWVzYXh5a3VMRnFB. Hope that is better.

Brilliant! Looks as though the 'drivers' are either beardies or baldies!

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PS. See the price these old Merits are fetching now !!!!!

You folks do beautiful building of models. They look almost like the real thing. Well done.


Ken H photo at Laguna Seca. August 2017

Amazing how important it is to get the wheels right! I have an old modelling book by master modeller, Rex Hays. His method of creating his own wire wheels was interesting - and time consuming of course!

Amazing how important it is to get the wheels right! I have an old modelling book by master modeller, Rex Hays. His method of creating his own wire wheels was interesting - and time consuming of course!

https://macsmotorcitygarage.com/1959-film-the-precision-models-of-rex-hays/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCk4H4gAFQc

Ken, Great pic. Almost identical angle as well.

Thanks to Bill, I managed to win an unbuilt Talbot kit on Ebay - including postage to my son's UK address - $15! Bargain.

Ray, Suggest you keep an eye on Ebay for a set of Herb Deeks PE Wire Wheel inserts. They fit nicely into the original Merit / Smer wheels

Thanks. Will do. They certainly make a huge difference.

As mentioned on the " Cheetahs " thread by Steve Holmes - a Cheetah is being built up in NZ from original drawings.
Well here a three models of original Race Cars in my collection.



They have recently re-emerged into a large cabinet after being in storage for 15 months. All in good condition too !!

Large ;



and Yes that is an MX5 in the back of the 1;24 scales - a V-Spec same as the real one I own

and small '



owned a TR4 but never a Healey 3000, only it smaller brother the 100 and four Sprites the "little brother".