Diecast Models Anyone ?

[Illaveago]

There were about four or five different versions that were sort of gradual evolutions. This is where it started back in 1986.

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Tony Southgate name popped into my head!

 

[Illaveago]

Here is my 1/43 scale model

 

[Reynard]

Tony Southgate name popped into my head!

Yep, you're spot on with Tony Southgate.

The XJR-14 that was the work of Ross Brawn.

 

[Reynard]

Here is my 1/43 scale model

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1988 Le Mans winning car. Andy Wallace, Jan Lammers & Johnny Dumfries

 

[Andy in Germany]

Here is my 1/43 scale model

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Ah, the good old days when it was acceptable to advertise cancer sticks on racing cars...

 

[Reynard]

Ah, the good old days when it was acceptable to advertise cancer sticks on racing cars...

You have to admit, some of the best / most memorable motorsport liveries of yesteryear were tobacco ones...

Gold leaf (the first ever) and JPS on the Lotuses. Rothmans on the works Group C Porsches, works Opel rally cars and then, a decade later, on the Williams F1 cars. Skoal Bandit on the RAM F1 cars and a privateer Porsche, Marlboro on the McLarens for about 20 years. And of course, the Silk Cut livery on the Jaguars.

A lot of drivers had personal sponsorship from the two big tobacco companies involved in motor racing (Camel & Marlboro), and this often affected which teams drivers could sign for, as a Camel driver couldn't sign for a team that received money from Marlboro etc. This affected drivers in junior formulae as well, not just F1 and Sportscars.

It's the main reason why Paul Warwick had to turn down an offer to go drive for West Surrey Racing in the '89 British F3 championship, and why he ended up at Intersport instead. But that's another story and not entirely relevant here.

 

[Illaveago]

You have to admit, some of the best / most memorable motorsport liveries of yesteryear were tobacco ones...

Gold leaf (the first ever) and JPS on the Lotuses. Rothmans on the works Group C Porsches, works Opel rally cars and then, a decade later, on the Williams F1 cars. Skoal Bandit on the RAM F1 cars and a privateer Porsche, Marlboro on the McLarens for about 20 years. And of course, the Silk Cut livery on the Jaguars.

A lot of drivers had personal sponsorship from the two big tobacco companies involved in motor racing (Camel & Marlboro), and this often affected which teams drivers could sign for, as a Camel driver couldn't sign for a team that received money from Marlboro etc. This affected drivers in junior formulae as well, not just F1 and Sportscars.

It's the main reason why Paul Warwick had to turn down an offer to go drive for West Surrey Racing in the '89 British F3 championship, and why he ended up at Intersport instead. But that's another story and not entirely relevant here.

Benson and Hedges on Jordan cars.

 

[Reynard]

Benson and Hedges on Jordan cars.

Yeah. The "Bitten and Hisses" version...

The half & half 555 & Lucky Strike livery from the first season of BAR.

 

[Smokin Joe]

You have to admit, some of the best / most memorable motorsport liveries of yesteryear were tobacco ones...

Gold leaf (the first ever) and JPS on the Lotuses.

My favourite GP cars, they looked fantastic.

 

[presta]

Fred resurrection.
Got given this Matchbox 1961 Commer Milk Van last month. Someone had covered it in thick paint, several coats of it by all accounts. Used oven cleaner to get the paint off the metal, and nail polish remover from the plastic parts. Repainted it with Tamiya model paint and polished the plastic glass with T-cut. Got the transfers from eBay.

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I used to have that one when I was a kid.

When I outgrew my toys and got rid of them my father rescued this Matchbox model of a John Fowler showman's engine:

I think it was him who bought it in the first place, and it lived on the mantlepiece for decades, but I don't know where it's gone. I think I tidied it away somewhere a few years ago, but I can't find it now.