Model Review – Aston Martin 1932
Team Cars by Richard Loveys
Richard Loveys built all three 1932 Team Cars from these kits.
before the First World War. The policy was enthusiastically continued when the company was taken over in 1926 by A C ‘Bert’ Bertelli and William Renwick. Under the new ownership the works cars (known as ‘Team Cars’) were given chassis numbers with the prefix LM and num- bered sequentially from one to 21, although LM13 was not used. The Team Cars were usually closely related to
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the road cars sold to the public, sometimes they were prototypes of new models and at other times developments of the current production vehicles. The three cars built for the 1932 season were prototypes and thus differed from the production vehicles, they were LM8, LM9 and LM10 and are the subject of this review. The cars had a number of new mechanical features which included cable- operated brakes. The low bodies had flat scuttles, instead of the previous cowls, and V-fronted radiators replaced the earlier flat ones. The straight section mudguards were now mounted
ston Martin entered cars in various competitive events from its beginning
The kit of parts.
on the chassis rather than the suspension. The Le Mans results were excellent; LM8 finished seventh overall, was second in its class and won the Rudge Cup, LM9 retired and LM10 came fifth overall and won its class. LM10 took part in the Brooklands 500 Mile race later in the same year but retired.
The kits for these models were made by the
French manufacturer SLM43 and purchased for about £35 in 2004; they were only available for a relatively short time and not many were made as either kits or fully assembled models. I decided to build all three Team Cars together because I thought that this might save a little time as well as ensuring they were all the same. There were good published pictures of these cars in books about the 24-hour race as well as those devoted to Aston Martin history.
The components in the kits were mainly made The ‘assembly line’ underway. 43
of resin with white metal for the headlamps, suspension, seats and exhausts; the aluminium wheel rims were fitted with photo-etched spokes; the mudguards and some small detailed parts
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