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Vintage CanAm models

Postby chappyman66 » Mon Oct 01, 2012 9:09 pm

There were a couple of series of CanAm models in 1/32 scale in the 70s. AHM had several of them, with wind up motors as I recall.
Does anyone have a full series? I managed to get a Chaparral 2E and what I think is a Ford G7A (with a split rear wing) but the rest of them have eluded me. How many are there? I don't see them often on ebay and they tend to be expensive.
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Re: Vintage CanAm models

Postby KnowtoriousWon » Mon Oct 01, 2012 9:29 pm

You can check eBay and sometimes find these, they were labeled "UPC", "AHM" and "Bandai" among other brand names. Look for the Lola T70 and McLaren M6 (I think this modeled after Peter Revson's car in which he won the Japanese Grand Prix in '68). Some of the Nissan and Toyota Group 7 cars were also made along with some Indy and Grand Prix cars. I had a Brabham F1 car as a kid.

These are rather poor versions of these cars but were just really inexpensive toy-models.
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Re: Vintage CanAm models

Postby dreinecke » Mon Oct 01, 2012 9:41 pm

I've got several. The scale is all over and they are not good representation..their Chappy 2H is awful.
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Re: Vintage CanAm models

Postby KnowtoriousWon » Tue Oct 02, 2012 2:23 pm

There was also a series of 1/28th scale Can-Am models made in the mid-seventies by Otaki. From memory they made from 1970 McLaren M8d, Lola T-222 & Shadow. From 1971 the STP Porsche 917 and from 1969 the Chaparral 2H (which has the fans of the back from the 1970 2J). Not great models but are charming in there own way.
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