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For your convenience, Porsche911 AKA “The Red Baron” has compiled a list of ’70/’71 Targa entrants. I have converted the list and posted below. You can wade through them to see if your car is eligible. Hopefully these charts are legible. One 1970 car to note is the Porsche 909 which practiced with Herrmann and Elford (T1 under practiced). It was a hill climb car, well under a thousand pounds wet, and I think scary as all get out !!@@##**. Goggle it!! :wacko:
A fantastic evening of racing. Thanks everyone. What an impressive job on the report too!! Lots of data, and a great revival of some of the old names, love it.
Remarkable job on the Honda Team transporter and figures! Way above and beyond Bill. :good:
Great to see such works of ‘Art’ out on the track. Beautiful and fast!! :yahoo:
So much innuendo!! Almost makes one want to run out and smoke a pack of Lucky Fortunas??!! B-)
After a tuning session with the Red Baron the Turbo car is ready and after a bit of tweaking the Old Smoker will be ready today (hopefully). :yahoo:
Congratulations to Johnny Slots and the Silk Cut XJR12 on a hard fought and well deserved win!! :yahoo: Fast and consistent for 2.4 hours!! A big thanks to Art for organizing and hosting and everyone who participated for making it a great day of racing. :rose:
Thanks for an excellent evening of racing. Nice Alfa!! Thanks for doing the inserts.
And so, after a nutritious meal of Pizza and Coke (what mouse could resist that wonderful offer) the fat little interloper was set free!! …
Thanks for hosting another superlative event! Good food, good people, great cars, wonderful racing! It was a real treat to drive your cars, and thanks so much for the very generous prizes as well! Going to be hard to top this one!! Hope everyone has an excellent Christmas. See everyone in the New Year!!
Another great session. Well done Bill. Thanks for hosting Art. So many excellent ideas. Amazing to see the amount of work that goes into such a small detail. A really excellent format for passing on knowledge!!
After attending this session one quickly realizes that “Printing your own decals on decal paper is just half the battle” rather underestimates the process!! So much to think about prior to even printing out your decal, never mind getting it off the paper without messing it up, then getting it to lay the way you want!!?? For the visual learner, seeing it done and being able to ask questions is sooooo much better than just reading how to do it!! Thanks for holding these sessions Art and giving freely of your time and expertise. Perhaps the next session could be on the detailing you do, what paints you use and when, washes, application tricks etc. etc.
PS: I’ve added the cartoon as an attachment. Seems to work but doesn’t look like it will go into the body of text.
Thanks for the heads up on the paint Michael. As it turns out one of our local stores (Great Hobbies in Mississauga for those interested) has an excellent selection of the Vallejo paint range ( a remarkably full range it seems). Picked up some on my recent visit and I’ll try on my next project.
An excellent Part 1 of the sidewinder chassis building tutorial last night. Works very well with enough people so that you can have a good Q&A session as you go along.
Looking forward to Part 2.To complete filling in the chart, #11 is a Porsche 917 as raced at the 1000km of Monza in 1970 by David Piper & Tony Adamovicz. It is red with silver rockers.
Thanks for a great evening of racing, fun and fast!! An excellent format too. :good: Hard to get any better than this! Great trophy!! :yahoo: Nice to see Mr. Corvette running an Alfa!! B-)
Apologies gents, for some reason I didn’t see the original post, 😥 Perhaps just the time of year it was
, and I know how much work it is to manipulate photos and post them, not to mention putting together a race report. :yahoo: A little appreciation from the peanut gallery really does goes a long way!! :wacko:Thanks for hosting another excellent forum. :good: As always one learns so much about not only the basic topic but all sorts of interesting bits that go rather off topic as well!
I would attach the sheet I use, but we have all seen the results of that!!
Thanks for providing a much improved version!!
And what was that site you said to google last night, I forgot to write it down. :unsure:
Wow, that was quick!! :good: An excellent evening with some clean, close racing, thanks for hosting.
Great new 612 :yahoo: .
With all that ‘smutz’ on the sides on the F1 cars it looks like I’ve done a great job of weathering them!!
Thanks for hosting this Art. So glad the really ugly weather held off and congrats to everyone who who made it out! :yahoo: Fascinating to see the difference in the level of track grip between the last event and this one. :scratch: The 2 Offs = -1 Lap seems to be quite a good compromise. B-)
One lucky little Autobianchi Giliberti A112!! :yahoo:
Those jaunty gents from Palermo (Scuderia Pegaso) are very appreciative and will be riding in style!! B-) . And of course they raise a delicious glass of red to you!
Thanks again for another very informative session. The format works really well! Due to the short length it appears that the weight distribution will be close to 50/50 and it will be fascinating to see whether this translates into go cart like handling!! :scratch:
Thanks for hosting another excellent (& long) evening of racing. A real endurance event!! Some very good racing in both groups!! :yahoo:
Congratulations to JMs on winning ‘Le Coq D’Or’! B-) Easily the best result for a P68 ever!! :wacko: Alan Mann is very happy!
Another ‘shockingly’ good session. Remarkably creative!
Thanks for both the session and the written instructions. :good:
True to it’s namesake ‘The Spa’ brought another evening of unpredictable outside weather. Last month a snowstorm in November, this month rain in December?? :unsure: Who knows what to expect at Spa?? Regardless, a full field of 6 brave folks and a lone spectator ventured outside to enjoy the R32 hospitality of ‘Spa Lyons’ inside.
After practice and a round of the towns finest pizza the evenings entertainment began.
The Big bore thunder machines were up first.
Under the Dunlop Bridge they charged. Dick Brooks led the field of big names in his 1970 #32 Black & Decker Plymouth Roadrunner,
running away from the rest of the field with 63 laps, followed not so closely by the fire breathing #29 1967 Ford Fairlane driven by Dick Hutcherson with 59 laps.
Rather closer was Dan Gurney in his 1970 Plymouth Superbird with 58 laps closely followed by the 1969 Ford Torino Talladega of Donnie Allison with 57 laps, and then the Robins Electric sponsored 1969 Dodge Charger 500 of Al Unser with 55 laps. The field was rounded out only one second later by the 1967 Holman Moody sponsored 1967 Ford Fairlane of Mario Andretti, also with with 55 laps. As always only the names have been changed to protect the innocent!!
After a brief pause to draw a breath the Sports Cars took to the track.
The #47 Jaguar XK-120 fresh from the Alpen Rally came 1st with 62 laps,
followed closely by the #136 1965 Ferrari 250LM -that had been driven driven by Antonio Nicodemi and Francesco Lessona in the 1965 Targa Florio – with 61 laps.
Rounding out the podium with 60 laps was the #50 Shelby AC Cobra in Comstock Racing livery driven by Shelby’s ace pilot Ken Miles that had been driven to a 7th overall and 2nd in the GT class at the 1963 Pepsi-Cola Canadian Grand Prix held at Mosport Park as part of the Canadian Sports Car Championship and which was still missing a headlight lost in that event.
The rest of the field consisted of the #35 Austin Healey driven by John Chatam with 58 laps, the #15 Ford Mustang fastback flogged by non other than Lee Iacocca himself with 57 laps and the #56 1954 Porsche 550 Spyder driven by Jaroslav Juhan. This was to be its inaugural shakedown event prior to going to Mexico for the Carrera Panamericana. It dragged home last, 20 seconds later with 57 laps as well. The little Porsche 550 we saw in last months spy shot was thoroughly outclassed by the rest of the field!! Back to the caves at Stuttgart for it!!
Bonus Spy shots:
Fortunately no such mishaps were encountered by our 250LM!! 😥
Trans Am
Due to some timing issues and ties in the scoring system, accurate finish results were difficult to determine.
The #52 1972 Chevrolet Camaro and the #98 Mercury Cougar of Dan Gurney covered 66 laps, the #35 Ford Mustang completed 65 laps, the #20 Ford Notch back and the #1 Camaro and the #18 Ford Mustang Mach 1 from down under each completed 59 laps.
Then the gloves were off for the last event of the evening, Group 5. An eclectic field took the green flag.
Leading the pack, the #23 Ford Zakspeed Capri as it ran in the German DRM in 1978 driven by Hans Heyer finished with 75 laps running 7.2 sec laps.
Adding colour to the field was, the #23 Porsche 935/78 “Moby Dick” piloted by Joest and Kausen and with a livery inspired by the no.23 Porsche 917/20 that raced at the 1971 Le Mans 24 Hours.
The Group 5 ‘Pink Pig’ finished one lap later with 73 laps.
Another car making it’s R32 debut at Spa was the #576 Lancia Beta Montecarlo Turbo. This Alitalia backed car was liveried aa driven in the Giro de Italia in 1979 by Gilles Villeneuve, Walter Rohrl & Christian Geistdorfe. It was very was comfortable on the twists and turns of Spa and proved its metal with 69 laps.
The #16 Roush prepared Zakspeed Mustang Turbo that was driven by Indy car ace Kevin Cogan at the Road Atlanta round of the 1982 IMSA GTX Series finished next with 68 laps edging out the #55 Ford Zakspeed Capri Turbo in Liqui Moly Equipe livery as raced in the German DRM (Deutsche Rennsport Meisterschaft) in 1981 by Manfred Winkelhock finished with 66 laps. A new rainbow warrior in the guise of the #51 Sauber BMW M1 liveried as raced at Le Mans in 1981 by Bernard Darniche, Johnny Cecotto & Philippe Alliot made it’s debut as well. At Spa it was rather tail happy and finished with 61 laps. :unsure:
Thanks to Drew and Nancy for their hospitality in offering the use of their home and track. :good:
To all the hosts, racers, spectators and others who made this another great event and an excellent year, a very Merry Christmas from R32.
Thanks for filling in some of the gaps. Local history on the small track. It did Trudeau Motors proud!! Doesn’t get any better than that!! :good: Thanks Joe.
And filling in that local history a bit. All of our many family wagons came from the Trudeau brothers (John and Jamie) over the years from their dealership on Station Street. I went to school with their children. Our Alfa mechanic in Belleville was Pino Palisca who eventually went to work for them when he closed his Texaco Station on Cannifton Road. He had his own GTV and a small Isetta that he used to let me drive. He also looked after a vintage Rolls Royce for Don Joyce before Don and it went to the Bahamas.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. :rose:
It was an evening fit neither for man nor beast!! As the song goes “the weather outside was frightful… but inside the track was delightful.” Well maybe it didn’t go quite like that. :wacko: Regardless several brave souls ventured out into the storm for an opportunity to race once again at the legendary Spa-Lyons!! While the winter driving was no fun, the upside was that fewer people meant plenty of practice and track time on a venue we hadn’t visited in almost a year, and one near and dear to me personally. :heart:
After a relaxed practice period, where several “sorry can’t make it” or “I think I’m in a ditch” calls were received, first up was Sports Cars:
The field took the track led by a Jag XK120 roadster, a Porsche 912 and a Ferrari 275P. It looked like the Porsche would have to punch well above it’s engine capacity.!!
When the dust had settled the Jag had gone 60 laps, the Porsche 56 and the Ferrari 54 laps. Owners/Drivers for this vintage event were not recorded. Nevertheless, it was a satisfying victory for the British home team on a blustery Remembrance Day evening.
Next up was good old American iron!!
The Rainbow Warrior (#24), Dewalt Tools(#17) and Lowes Sponsored Jimmy Johnson (#48) took the green!
In a few laps Jimmy had driven the wheel right off his car!! Completing almost half a lap before coming to rest and declaring, “something’s wrong”! A loose wheel nut during a pit stop was determined to be the cause!! His opponents felt that the only loose nut out there was behind the wheel??!! Tony the Tiger filled in for the rest of the race.
Finishing first was the DuPont Paint liveried ‘Rainbow Warrior’ of Jeff Gordon with 65 laps. The Dewalt Tools car of Matt Kenseth and the fill in ride of ‘Tony the Tiger’ both completed 60 laps, with Kenseth nudging out Terry Labonte’s raging Tiger by 1.5 seconds!!
Then the Classic LeMans cars took to the track.
This time it was an all Porsche event with a 917LH (#21), a 907LH(#52), and a 907K (#276) heading out to challenge Spa.
It was not entirely inappropriate that the horrendous weather outside had scattered a few errant poppies onto the track.
An excellent race ensued, and eventually Porsche 917LH (#21) driven by Elford/Larrousse dominated with a whopping 70 laps!! The 907LH(#52) of Siffert/Herrmann completed 65 laps while the 907K (#276) driven by Koch & Dechent, completed 63 laps.
Then the Group ‘C’ cars took to the track to close out the evening.
Around hot Tub corner they flew, stopping only occasionally to enjoy the scenery. :yahoo:
When the chequered fell, the #14 Canon sponsored Porsche 956C of Palmer, Lammers and Lloyd had covered 73 laps, while the #6 Martini sponsored Lancia LC2 of Martini, Barilla & Wollek diced with the #27 Porsche 962C KH driven by Okada & Dickens for 66 laps each, eventually edging it out by 2.5 seconds!
It was a great return to Spa-Lyons after almost a year’s hiatus. Thanks to our host Drew and his wife Nancy for their hospitality (and warm cookies) on a very inclement November evening! Kudos to Luis for making the drive up from Hamilton on a very miserable night.
Bonus Spy Shot:
As the evening drew to a close there were unconfirmed reports that an unknown driver had taken the opportunity to attempt a few shakedown laps in a partially outfitted car. He was quickly black flagged off the course by the marshal’s. Maybe more about this incident later. :unsure:
Hopefully it will not be too long before we return to sample the pleasures of Spa. B-)
Another excellent evening, thanks for hosting Art, John for organizing and Ken & Art for the door prizes. :rose:
Nice to see Joe and Larry out.
No pictures, but a big thanks to Doug for allowing us to race on his track, B-) to Art for organizing and hosting :good: , to Ken for for his generous donation of door prizes :yahoo: and to everyone who participated for an excellent day of racing!! :wacko:
Excellent seminar. Thanks for going through this with us Ken. :good:
Lots of great machining tips regardless of what sort of chassis you are making. :yahoo:
And some excellent painting tips too.
Well done. Thank you.
Another place to possibly look for a compound table should you be interested. Looks like you need to order them.
https://www.homedepot.ca/en/home/p.micro-compound-table-kt-70.1000800551.html
Congratulations on having the 1st event of our new reality. :yahoo:
I really want to attend 😥 as it’s been a long time without a small car fix, however our daughter had a baby last week and we are under very strict quarantine rules (hers make the governments pale by comparison) if my wife wants to hold her new baby. Hopefully things will relax soon and I’ll be allowed out to play. Good luck to those who attend , have fun and stay safe.
Old colour dealer plate, but great to see one out. Definitely a 1960 as the tail fins in 1961 were much smaller and the taillights were circular as opposed to the half moon shaped ones of 1960.
The name Galaxy was a marketing attempt to appeal to the excitement surrounding the space race going on at the time with Russia. Dual trunk mounted antennae were a rare factory option. The continental rear tire/bumper may be aftermarket.
Small point, the convertibles as seen here were Sunliners. The Starliner was a two door hardtop, fastback characterized by thin roof pillars. The fastback styling and slippery aerodynamics, was a design attempt to symbolize 1960s jet age design. Ford ran Starliners in NASCAR I think.
Congratulations to all who attended. Great to see R32 back on track so to speak. Regardless of finish order everyone was a winner.
Thanks Art for organizing this and keeping the fun alive. Thanks to Doug for allowing the use of his facility. Hopefully I will be able to make it to the next event. 😉
January 2020, and excitement was high as teams arrived at Spa-Lyons for the first R32 evening of the new decade! The weather outside was piled higher and deeper thanks to an earlier snowfall, but inside things were warm and dry with a good crowd anticipating an evening of fun.
Spectators had arrived on all sorts of wonderful machinery, both 2 wheeled
and four. Ducati’s, MV Augusta’s, Aston’s and E-types graced the course providing some true European flair.
Patrons were scattered around the track, staying in all manner of accommodations and enjoying some of the finest pies on offer.
Photo crews jostled for the best vantage points
and the paparazzi were in evidence around the track- not necessarily always interested in the action on the track it seemed.
The good old boys lined up for the anthem prior to the first race.
And then they were off! The usual amount of NASCAR carnage ensued for the first
few laps until the drivers began to settle in after the long layoff.
When it was over, Jeff Gordon had far outpaced the rest of the field with 66 laps in the Rainbow Warrior, while
Jimmy Johnson, Dale Earnhart Jr. and Bad Boy Kurt Busch dragged in next with 62 laps with half a second and
then 5 seconds separating the three cars. Matt Kenseth the victim of some early aggressive driving finished with
60 laps. Afterwards the stewards had stern talks with some of the ‘boys’ behind closed doors.After a through track cleaning by the course workers to clean the NASCAR bits, next up were the 70’s GP cars.
A more gentlemanly race ensued, perhaps due to the fragile nature of the cars or perhaps just because the cars
were more suited to the winding nature of the course.
Carlos Pace in a Surtees–Ford TS16-2 with “Hi Fi Bang & Olufsen” sponsorship arrived home 1st with 70 laps,
followed one lap later by Emilio de Villota in a rare Lotus 78 with 69 laps and with Patrick DePailler in a Tyrell 007
a further lap back with 68. Indigo Montoya in a custom liveried Shadow DN1 finished with 65 laps and the McLaren
M23 of James Hunt ran further astern with 62 laps after some technical difficulties.
Following a short pause for the cause racing continued with Group C cars taking to the track.
The action was fast and furious.
When the chequered fell, the Canon sponsored Porsche 956C of Palmer/ Lammers/Lloyd had covered 73 laps,
while the #38 Toyota 88C driven by Artzet/Hoshino/Suzuki was well back with 69 laps. The Nissan R89C of
Hasemi / Hoshino / Suzuki rounded out the podium with 67 laps.
The Mercedes Sauber of Acheson/Baldi/Niedwiedz finished with 65 laps. The field was rounded out by the cigarette
sponsored ‘Fortuna’ Porsche 962C with 64 laps after some technical issues with their primary car.The final race of the evening was LMP/GT cars.
Under the watchful eyes of a pair of 356 Porsche Speedsters around Hot tub corner they flew, with not all drivers
apparently giving their undivided attention to the course??
When the dust had settled, local knowledge and driver talent proved a considerable advantage with the #25 Porsche
911 GT1 of Muller/Alzen/Wollek outclassing the rest of the field with 75 laps.
Followed home in second by the similar Fever sponsored ‘Cat In The Hat’ Porsche 911 GT1 of A.Hahne & A.Scheld
with 72 laps.
A Lola B09/60 driven by Piro/Cocker/Drayson ran third with 67 laps
and the Yellow Corn McLaren F1GTR entered by Team Hitotsuyama Racing with drivers Naoki Hattori and
Eiichi Tajima finished with 65 laps.
It was great to return to Spa-Lyons after a holiday break.
Thanks to our host Drew and his wife Nancy for their hospitality on a blustery January evening!Another great day at MVL. Thanks for organizing it Art. All that and a Fisker Karma in the showroom too!!
Thanks everyone for another great day of looking at real cars and playing with little ones!! Always a great venue.
Lots of fun in a small space with none of those pesky long straightaways to get in the road of the corners!!
Another great day at MVL. Thanks for organizing it Art, thanks to Doug for letting us play there, and thanks for the Caddy Ken.
Incredible undertaking!! What a great looking track!! It’s huge!! So sorry that I can’t make the inaugural meeting’
Even the shark has his own pool!! Incredible work Art and Rob! Love these ‘how it was done’ pictorials! An amazing amount of planning and work!!
Thanks everyone for another great day.
For those who like Drew’s Team Gunston model and wish to read where it started and who they were.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/africa/64684013
Lots more if you just google Team Gunston.
Marius also did a nice repaint into one and there are several RTR cars available from Scalextric and Flyslot as well as the Racer car Drew showed us.
Wish I could take even a little bit of credit, but it was tiny elves, deep in the gold mine, with much more nimble fingers than I have!
My substantial contribution was to roll it onto it’s roof!!
The lighting is not too good in the gold mine,
but here they are hard at work!!
And of course not to be confused with John Love who was responsible for bringing Team Gunston sponsorship to the auto racing community way back when.
Great build Bill!
How did you cut the brass plate? Drill holes at the appropriate places and then what kind of saw? Looks like a good solution.
Great footage. thanks for posting. The end of Alfas glory days save for a few later brilliant performances, and the beginning of Auto/Union/Mercedes dominance. Good thing they had too much power??
Solid brass chassis with pods. Great looking cars. Another interesting way to make a chassis. How much do these weigh? You’ll have to get up to a race one of these days and see how they go!!
Looks like one can never get enough of the Aston Ulster? Perhaps Art could erase the extras, although I quite like looking at them!!
Yes the model represents a very real car that was quite famous in it’s day. I don’t have any colour shots of the 1935 Targa Abruzzo so can’t confirm colours. However this Aston was a ‘privately’ owned car and there were cases where after finishing poorly in races owners wives suggested that an Ulster be painted red in order to change it’s luck. A famous Ulster also raced for many years in private hands in a dark blue livery. Chances are that at the 1935 Targa Abruzzo both Ulster’s were painted Green.
At the risk of being TMI but since you asked.
The Targa Abruzzo was a 24 hour race staged on the circuit of Pescara on the Adriatic coast of Italy. It started at midnight local time and the first running in 1924 was won by Enzo Ferrari in an Alfa Romeo!! Racing ceased there in 1961.
For the 1935 Targa Abruzzo, of the 47 entrants 2 Aston Martin’s were entered. LM17 (a team car) was entered for Maurice Faulkner and Tommy Clarke and CMC 614 ‘549’ was entered, perhaps are the behest of Count Johnny Lurani. Lurani who loved the event was to be Eddie Hall’s co driver. Hall was to arrange for the factory to deliver the car to Pescara and Lurani was to take care of the arrangements. As it turned out Lurani met Hall and his wife heading back to England in his Bentley supposedly upset about their accommodations in Pescara. He was also possibly upset that the factory had sent out ‘549’, the car that had failed him at the previous Mille Miglia. What ever his reason for leaving this left Lurani with an entry but no car as ‘549’ was a private car owned by Hall and was not a factory car although that issue was in some dispute as after the Mille Miglia failure Hall might have asked for his money back??
Lurani contacted Bertelli who was in Italy on vacation and he allowed Lurani to use the car and went to Pescara to help. An old friend of Lurani’s, Gildo Strazza was drafted in as co-driver. By half way in the race LM17 was second between 2 Alfa Romeos and ‘549’ was fourth. There were issues with fading brakes for both Aston’s and ‘549’ suffered a valve issue that took 30 minutes to fix not helped by the language difference between the English Aston mechanics and Lurani’s Italian mechanics. When the flag fell at midnight the 2 Alfas were first and second and Lurani in the Ulster was third.
Pictures to follow.
That is an unbelievable chronology of the Type 33!! I may never get to digest it all…. but I will try!!
Thanks for sharing Bill.Good luck with the Periscopico car, can’t wait to see it. What body are you modifying?
Beautiful chassis, clever design, lovely detail work on the body, and that interior and driver!!
Somewhere Professor Porsche is smiling!!
What beautiful chassis’. Works of art. Thank you for sharing Chris. More photos of these will certainly not be boring.
“The Flying Headmaster”. Drove for a great many teams including Ferrari and Maserati, but I’ll always remember him as an Alfa driver. He provided a great many Sicilian fans with a great deal of pleasure.
Hopefully they have a great track where you and all of your compatriot’s can go and play!!
Were most of these in Maranello at the museum? Was Enzo’s office open or behind glass? Nice Alfa!! Was the Lancia still there?
Did you go to the Maserati museum not too far out of town in Bologna I think?
To the Alfa museum in Arese?
How about the Stangullini museum also in modena?
How long were you there for? Still there? Some guys have all the fun!!
That seems to have worked, thanks Ken. the retouch doesn’t show up when it’s down to 250×250.
It was a toss up between that and this, but I liked the Maserati better! Both are from incidents that happened with those cars!!
I miss my Maserati with the wheel off! I’ll try to resubmit it?
I went into my profiles section and could see no place to add or edit an avatar?? Where do I go?
This one.
So after a lively discussion at the Indy Roadster seminar I was prompted to hunt down my ’41 Willy’s coupe, (did I mention that it is my all time favourite hot rod?). … And lo and behold what to my wandering eyes should appear…. but Christmas in July!! Two sets of 1:1 Alfa cams :good: that I have been searching for ages for. Obviously in a treasured hiding spot with my 1/32 Alfas, :rose: although also possibly a sign that I have too many projects on the go as well. :wacko:
However I digress. More in line with the discussion, although the Willy’s looks good with meaty tires on the back , currently about 11.5 mm wide and with 63.89 mm max tire to tire outside width, tires under the body, it looks like it can be built to look quite good (possibly better and more period) and still remain within current hot rod rules.
I should be able to build it with tires inside the body at 50.8 mm and class legal 6mm wide tires. Easy upgrade (possibly) if rules move to allow bigger tires, but I don’t think it will need it with the slow motor and heavy body. There is room to bring the tires in a bit if necessary without the need to cut into the body.
It will obviously need green flames but I think that can be accommodated!!
