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The kit was made by SMTS and was purchased in 1998...


...Richard Loveys was impressed by its quality.


of clear lacquer rather than being painted silver. The well-detailed oil pump and its pipes were then fitted to the front of the supercharger casing as shown in the pictures.


A little ingenuity was needed to assemble the accurately-made dashboard panel and the transfers for the instruments, but the end result made the effort worthwhile. The racing numbers on their white discs came from my parts box. The front suspension was assembled without the wire axle as this would not have looked quite right, it also enabled the wheels to be given a little camber to match that on the full-sized car. The finished model is just over four inches long.


Building the model was relatively straightfor-


ward, once enough information had been gathered about the car. It was fortunate that sufficient images had been published, there are even more available now on the internet than when the model was built in 2002. It is believed


that as the kit was produced some time ago you will be very lucky to find one for sale today – but it is worth looking on Ebay occasionally.


Even the dashboard has accurate details.


The supercharger installation was amended to the British Empire Trophy set-up.


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