Blazing Blazer in Gone in 60 seconds

[Ridgeback Racing Team]

It may be really old, but yesterday I saw the first Gone in 60 seconds movie from the sixties.

They stole a Bronco, and it looked just like the Blazing Blazer.

I think this was the car that stood as a model for the Tamiya car.

Does anyone know more about this? [?]

[tamartin]

That guess is totally wrong!!!

Tamiya built their cars exactly like the real ones.

And The Blazer is comming from this one!!

http://desertdust.homestead.com/52_Bob_Gorden_p3.html

Bye

[Ridgeback Racing Team]

I think you're right. But it sure does look a lot like it. I'm going to watch it again and check if it is different indeed

[tamiya_89]

The blazing blazer is molded after the racing version of an chevy blazer. The chevy blazer was a 3 doors 4x4 an looks like it is an 3 door version of an chevy suburban, but i could be wrong on that. Ford made the bronco wich looks a bit like a blazer but isn't one.

[kingeddie]

coooool site!!![8D][8D], sand scorcher, blazer and ooooooodddles of rough riders/super champs. makes me want to chop my 1/1 beetle up................now wheres that grinder.........

[SJoerD]

quote:Originally posted by tamartin

That guess is totally wrong!!!

Tamiya built their cars exactly like the real ones.

And The Blazer is comming from this one!!

http://desertdust.homestead.com/52_Bob_Gorden_p3.html

Bye

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I doubt that would be Tamiya's only inspiration, some free artisitc license is used as well. I doubt their inspiration has come from this single, specific car alone. Maybe less likely, but I don't think it's unimagineable that Tamiya even looked at the paint schemes of Bronco's for their inspiration, as they have similar body lines - nobody really knows for sure. []

[sploader]

I've seen a lot of vintage pictures of similar Blazers and Broncos. A lot of the racing versions used to have that type of wing for a roof. While the Blazing Blazer probably wasn't based off that specific truck, it was certainly based off a similar one. Perhaps with a paint scheme more like the final version of the Tamiya truck.

[tamartin]

Tamiya did not copy the real paint shemes and names for the RR, SS and Blazer.

They would have to pay the Sorry German Lizensen, for these RC cars too. And Tamiya would avoid this by using fantasy names.

Except the Super Champ (older topic) Al Ernat was a shop keeper in the States who sold Tamiya.

But nobody can deny that this is the Rough Rider. All stickers are on the correct place if you have a look at the blue painted body.

http://desertdust.homestead.com/43_Malcolm_Smith_p3.html

So the cars are exact copies, maybe some paintjobs too, but never the names.

[DJTheo]

And how can we be 100% sure that this guy didn't have a Rough Rider in 1980 and had his 1:1 buggy painted and decalled like the Tamiya one? []

Cheers

[tamartin]

Does someone reproduce the RR decals in 1:1 size????

Please I would like one set.

Should be around 3x5 meters big.

So postage is sure no problem if folded neatly.

[8)]