Mardave
Found this last year in amonst a pile of bits at Woodvale Show whis Sgt.Barnes and after haggling for a bit manged to get the price down slightly, but at the last minute got called away, which meant I was at risk of losing what appeared to be a bargin, so thanks Barnesy for stepping in and grabbing it for me. It was RUFF!! waterslide decals on the inside then splats of paint over the top, a copper covered grp chassis, and what appeared to be a load of paper work. According to the radio license it dates back to 1977, there was confussion as to the shell design but after a bit of a clean and a dig around on tintanet found it was a BOLINK '68 Camaro Design. Have since cut a new chassis out of alloy, cleaned up the shell and all the parts just need to rebuild and decide what colour to paint it, oh and replace some accessories to try and take it bake t the ordinal design. There is also a chance going by the instructs etc that it was a 12th F1 but the instructions do also mention a saloon.
Any help and comments would be most welcome, waht this space for the updates.
Comments
Crash Cramer
Wow, pretty good looking there. Bolink is still in business and I think they really have only done 'pan' style cars for most of their years. What did you use to get all the paint off the Lexan bodyshell???
kevinthegerbil
Parts of the car looks like it's from a 1970 early 1980's Mardave from with a home made bumper. Mardave did make the kit with Various Body shells.
mb_c11
Bolink was a manufacturer of RC cars and accessories that was around up to the mid to late 1990s.
sgt.barnes
Not much of a friend stitching you up with a shed like that ! Looks better now though
bakaguyjean
The Body is a Chevy Monza,not a Camaro. The Monza was raced against the Corvettes in the IMSA series. Very cool but lesser know car.
BiggusDitchus
Nice chap but front axle and wheels are definately Mardave.
lammac
Thanks everyone for comments and help, keep it coming more the better. . Crash Cramer the stuff I used for removing the old duff paint was Halfords own Special Brew of Clutch Fluid and after slight soak it lifted of except the odd stubbon bit which was helped along GENTLE by a electric toothbrush with plently of clutch fluid around it. Hopefully changing over to newly cut chassis this week and making some of the missing bits that with soften the blow of the odd knock Anyone got any ideas on the speedy, it still works great.
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