On the First Day of Vacation, my true love gave to me UPDATE

[HomeRacingWorld]

9-27 here sir. 11-36 in s/w when I can.

[dreinecke]

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Well, as my vacation winds to an end and I return to a less than idyllic work environment on Monday, I have to say I had a great two weeks off! Not only did I get to spend Christmas with the most amazing wife and kids in the world, celebrate my 24th anniversary with said bride, and get some honey-do's done - I also got 5 cars completed, 8 others re-motored, my bridge finished, the pits worked on, the shop organized, and didn't fall off the roof whilst removing the Christmas lights today. All-in-all, I'd say it was a good time!

So, without further ado, here are the Can-Am's circa 1966 at the PDR that I took with my Kodak Instamatic camera:





Front Row from Left to Right: #64 McKee Mk6 of Bud Clusseruth and the McKee Mk6 #77 car of Mat Kron x 2- 1 on these is going to Mr. Bob McKee himself!



Back Row from Left to Right: #4 McLaren M1b of Bruce McLaren and the #47 McLaren M1a "Elva" of Bruce McLaren



And a bonus picture just because...I think if I had a fan blowing gas fumes and smoke in my face, I could almost think I was there...



All cars are powered by MRRC Sebring chassis with Paul Gage tires, M/T's SL-1 slim can motors, and in the case of the M1B, SCC wheels that I'm still working on inserts for. George Turner's kit came with a resin chassis that is very clever, but as I'm wanting parity, I cut the sides off the chassis he supplies, glued them to the body, and added mounts for the Sebring. Very happy with the results.

These were fun to build, but as usual, I did too many at once and am whipped. I am not a Master Tuner like Mr. Wise or a Master Builder like Mr. Wright/Mr. Bibbster, INSERT NAME HERE...therefore they took longer than I'd like. All of them run really nice though and I'm really pleased with them.

I'm thinking I'd rather stay in the basement than go to work on Monday...besides these things are just so freaking cool looking going around the track!

[HRWJim]

Wow what a great looking group of cars. I have to say the 47 car is my favorite. Very nice work. Jim

[ListerStormGT]

Dave, they all look great and all of them came out very nice. The black and white pics really look the part too. Great job on all of them!

[HomeRacingWorld]

What a great sight. You have done some fantastic modeling as usual.

Cool that Bob McKee is getting one. That has to be the cheese on the burger for you.

Time to steal...I mean use some of these photos :)

[dreinecke]

Thanks gents, glad you like them.

Please note, the McLaren M1a Elva is a George Turner Models kit that I do NOT make. I've had 1 mis-order and 3 emails this morning. Sorry if my posting wasn't clear - I only make the McLaren M1b.

[Ember]

Wow. Don't they just look the dog's danglies sitting on PDR. Nice to see you didn't waste any of your time off David.

[Scatman1]

:banana-rock: WOW :banana-rock: Great job. I keeping looking at the photos over and over.

[dreinecke]

Lynne -that is a hysterical phrase I've not heard before - cracked me up.

Jeremy - bring it, buddy!

Tony - Thank you, Sir!

[ourwayband]

You sir are an Artist.Great builds,great track and great pictures!Thanks for sharing!

Rusty

[dge467]

Great looking cars! Awesome layout!

[Dundee Denny]

Double thumbs up on the footbridge!!!

Was that a 'in your mind" design or replicate something somewhere?

How long did it take if you put the hours together? Something I have always wanted to try.

Travel alot and thought I might be able to build parts of it at night on the trips.

Dundee Denny

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Dundee - It was kind of in my head and a gent on Slot Forum made something that is kind of similar and I just started putting it together. I'd looked at lots of photos as well of old tracks. As PDR is in that mid-late 1960's as the safety stuff is just making it's way onto the scene, I figure the wood fences and bridge are ok. PDR is slowly upgrading, hence the use of newer concrete walls in certain areas.

I'd probably say 3 evenings in total or about 20 hours into it. Most of the wood I pre-painted, cut, and glued in one night. I put the railings and signage on another night and then just this past week spent about 2 hours on the hand railings. Those were easy since I'd used Plastruct stairs and hand rails. I just put the wood hand rail cap on them to dress them up and add some color.

Hope that helps!

[HomeRacingWorld]

Seen a lot of folks posting photos of those fancy tracks inside a 917 and with Jay Leno.

They have nothing on this, or any other old fashioned home track that has the efforts and passion of the owner in it.