At first glance this doesn't look that difficult. I'm even fortunate to have a 1/43 model to go by. But where I see the problems will be in modifying the rear deck. It will have to go below the original deck top surface. To get around this I've loaded the underside of the deck with J&B WELD. This will hopefully give me enough extra "meat" to make the deck come out....

Boy! I hope this works....

It appears I may be able to use the windshield for a Vac mould. And that's a good thing 'cause I've already got the top cut off.

An interior will have to be made which will be a show point if I can do it right.

Decals for the car are in Adobe.

Wheels? Well whadda you think?

So now I have five more in the "To Be Finished" catagory on my list.

"Film at 7 :p

LOl..your killing me..i think we are linked somehow..i was thinking of this same car when i was looking at gmp website a couple weeks ago...good look on this one

After removing the roof and filling the underside of the rear deck with J&B WELD, I began grinding and fileing the top side. Had I not have prefilled the deck it would have lost structural integrity and would have probably collapsed when it was being filed.

magoo....Its not a coincidence, it was your input, in a previous message that made me want to do the Donahue Sonoco Cars. I'd been to several races in which he participated. Though he may not have won them all he made them place in the top five races I'd EVER witnessed. One of THE GREAT DRIVERS; along with Jimmy Clark.

I never got to see them live im 35 but i have seen video and i love watching jim clark slide them old cortinas around. Future project for you maybe? Dont know if ive ever seen a cast of it though. Accept an ebbro. And there whacko detailed anyway. Glad to see i has a little inspiration. I would love to make or see a 57 maserati 250 casting. By the way Fangio is probally one of my all time faves. And Ayrton Senna, Big fan of the old drivers. LIke Nuvolari, Nika lada i think i spelled it wrong. Good stuff keep them coming

I remember Jim Clark spinning a couple of times at Indy in that BRG Lotus. He never touched anything and kept on going. This was either the first or second year of Lotus's participation at Indy. Everything else was a Roadster chassis. He won handily even after the spins. When asked how he kept from flat-spotting the tires his simple response was "Ah decluctched ya know."

There are a bunch of Cortinas on TheBay under FORD mkIV if I recall correctly. I haven't tried Cortina as a search. I don't even know what scale they are. Though they were nimble and pretty fast; they reached a styling low not matched until the Pontiac Aztec. I suppose I may have to have one though becaise they were a landmark in racing.

This is a mach-up of the cockpit. I'm going to use 3M Heavy sticky-back foil on the final assembly. What's in it now has been R&R quiet a few times and is a little worse for the wear. It'll still make the pattern for the finished piece.

I think I'm going to make this one in Donahue's '68 Bridgehampton colors because I like the vertical Webber stacks on the car. I've got some good shots of it as well.

Well again my impatience has forced me to adapt. Just haven't had the "jack" to get my Vac plastic....Yet. I'd got the Lola to an almost finished point. I got to looking through all my blisters last night but crapped out there. Then I got to looking at the P4 I'd robbed the wheels from for the 312P. It wasn't like it was going to be good for anything but parts anyway. I first thought, "you know that dash might just fit that Lola." DANG! It does :thumbsup: Then I got to thinking if that worked maybe the windshield would too. Well it did but the windscreen on the Lola is low....Real low. I got to pushing on it and it had a good deal of flex to it. I decided to put it in an Xacto clamp and compress it to where I wanted it. I then took a hair dryer and heated it. When it cooled it stayed the way it was compressed. I doubt this would have worked with the Lola GT70 glass. Its a different plastic. This particular car has brake vents on the lower pan in front of the rear wheels. They were made from the 3M foil. The interior worked well and there is a shifter and linkage in it. The seat belts are, again, blue painter's mask. The buckles are 3M foil. The roll bar is a piece of insulated wire like they use to tie down die-casts. I've still got some work to do on the rear deck, like install tail lamps and bring the exhaust out the back. I lost my rear deck decals. (I think they should read "Roger Penske Chevrolet") So I'll have make some more of those. Its coming along and most of the major hurrdles have been met.

awesome job..i like this one as well..i think i like the birdcage a bit more though. I havent done much work as of late...to busy working. im almost finished with a bug for my wife..shes a ladybug nut.

Yeah. I'm pretty fond of the T60 myself. What's really going to set the Lola off is going to be the rear grill work. I'll post the finished project in the next couple of days.

I finished out the rear deck of the T70 last night. I probably took some artistic license with it as I didn't actually have a photo of this particular cars back side. In looking at the reference pics I did have I didn't find one car that was exactly the same in physical configuration. Something was different if it was only the tail lamps.

Anyway, the grill work was made from brass pipe screen. The tail pipes are 1/16 aluminum tube cut to length and beveled out with an X-acto knife point. The tail lamps were cut out of the 3M foil using the other end of my home made punch / scriber made from another piece of 3/32 aluminum tube. The working end of that was beveled to a sharp end. The foil was place on a mouse pad and the tube pressed to it and rotated. The foil was then pulled away from the tube, leaving the small foil disc behind. This was simply stuck to the rear of the deck and red paint applied with smaller drill bit shank.

I also took the car back apart and lowered the stance somewhat. It doesn't roll any more but the stance looks much better

CH, I see you are at it again, did you show this off over at hwcollectors.com.

Yeah. But stuff like this drops like a rock over there. They, like most, don't seem to be too much into the historical sports racing cars. I'd venture to guess a lot of the builders are much younger than me and don't have the fond memories of THE GREATEST YEARS OF RACING. But I still show them over there for those who do like that period but may not travel much.