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Post by ampersand on May 4, 2016 9:24:17 GMT -5
Brace yourselves for a brace of Lola’s! I have had a lot of 1/43rd scale white metal castings for the Lola T900 for years and never quite knew what to do with them. I had always wanted to make some of the more obscure versions of the car that ran with some of the smaller teams (I made the Beatrice and Domino’s versions in the Ampersand range), but the cost of decals and my own inability to do the artwork always kept it something of a dream. That is until I met Jan Polstra from Holland on this forum. He wanted a model of Luyendyk’s T900 and offered to do the artwork. One thing led to another, and soon Jan was doing artwork for Arie’s car and a lot of other versions. Jan is a graphic artist in the truest sense of the word as you can see from the first six models I've built using his decals. I’ll be posting more detailed photos of the different cars here over the next few days.  |
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Post by elsapito on May 4, 2016 10:25:24 GMT -5
Whhooooaaa!!!! :)Quite nice!!! YES we absolutely want closer pics. That looks as a really nice bunch,and the fact of them being unusual subjects only can make it better. Thanks for sharing  |
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Post by ampersand on May 4, 2016 11:02:40 GMT -5
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Post by SWT500 on May 4, 2016 11:42:03 GMT -5
What year was the T900? Praying for 1986 to do the two Dick Simon Duracell cars that I worked on.
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Post by ampersand on May 4, 2016 11:55:01 GMT -5
What year was the T900? Praying for 1986 to do the two Dick Simon Duracell cars that I worked on. The T900 raced in 1985, I'm afraid. I have a set of original Lola drawings for the T8600 from 1986, and one day I hope to make that car in 1/43rd scale. It differs quite a lot from the T900. I know other people are interested in a model of the 1986 car, too. |
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Post by 11rowsof3 on May 4, 2016 12:47:38 GMT -5
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Post by 11rowsof3 on May 4, 2016 13:03:55 GMT -5
I had no idea who the #27 was until you posted - but living in Indy and being a diehard the rest I knew immediately including one of my childhood heroes... Jim Crawford. Here's some pics for you guys. I would LOVE to have some of these. I am about over building 1/43 but PM me some pricing if you'd like. Howdy Holmes  Derek Daly  Arie Luyendyk  Jim Crawford  Dennis Firestone  Ian Ashley  |
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Post by ampersand on May 4, 2016 15:18:05 GMT -5
Wow, that's THE color photo I have of the #27 car, too! Actually it shows a lot of the car, and it even made me realise that the team had removed the side planes of the winglets - something I would probably have missed otherwise. I have a nagging suspicion, though, that there are more supplier logos in front of the Valvoline-sticker on the sidepod, hidden by the front wheel in the picture. The sticker seems oddly placed so far back from the leading edge of the sidepod, I think.
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Post by oldphotos on May 4, 2016 18:12:43 GMT -5
The Arciero Racing Team also had a Lola T900 car #57 that Randy Lanier drove in the 1985 season, but didn't Qual. for the Indy 500. The car is now located in the St. Louis area. It looks just like it did when it raced, which made tracing the history of the car for the owner a whole lot easer than some other cars that had many different owners, drivers and Paint jobs.
Bill Whitington also drove a Lola T900 in 1 race car #12, a different car that the #57.
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Post by ampersand on May 4, 2016 22:48:58 GMT -5
The Arciero Racing Team also had a Lola T900 car #57 that Randy Lanier drove in the 1985 season, but didn't Qual. for the Indy 500. The car is now located in the St. Louis area. It looks just like it did when it raced, which made tracing the history of the car for the owner a whole lot easer than some other cars that had many different owners, drivers and Paint jobs. Bill Whitington also drove a Lola T900 in 1 race car #12, a different car that the #57. Oldphotos Walt I would love to do the Arciero cars, too, and Jan is working on the decals. Interesting that the #57 car is still around - maybe someone here has photos? I also hope to do the #71 Hemelgarn Racing car, which was driven by a variety of drivers through the season, and the #38 Circle Bar car. I hope to do this car as it raced at Cleveland as it has the best paint scheme there. And then we shouldn't forget that AJ Foyt drove a T900 at Sanair that year. I have no photos of this car apart from what I have lifted off a YouTube video, and you can imagine the quality of those! I'll probably build that car using IndyCals' ´85 March decals when they are issued. |
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Post by ampersand on May 4, 2016 22:55:03 GMT -5
Here are some shots of the #34 Wysard Racing Lola T900 raced by the great Jim Crawford at Indy. The team was largely unsponsored but picked up Canadian Tires sponsorship when uncle Jacques Villeneuve put his Canadian Tires March 85C in the wall during qualifications and got injured so the team had to withdraw. Jan has done a fantastiuc job of getting all the logos just right. It's a three color paint job using the excellent Tamiya masking tape. Unfortunately I sprayed the red on top of the blue, so it came out a little too dark, I think.    |
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Post by ampersand on May 4, 2016 23:03:03 GMT -5
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Post by zippernl on May 5, 2016 2:27:23 GMT -5
Absolutely amazing looking cars Bo. It's been a pleasure making these first cars for you, more will follow of course with more obscure liveries. I love the shots made of the finished cars.
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Post by ampersand on May 5, 2016 10:43:40 GMT -5
Absolutely amazing looking cars Bo. It's been a pleasure making these first cars for you, more will follow of course with more obscure liveries. I love the shots made of the finished cars. Thanks a lot, Jan - I am very grateful for your great effort. And I look forward to the next batch of decals! |
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Post by ampersand on May 5, 2016 10:52:33 GMT -5
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Post by gavkiwi on May 5, 2016 17:11:02 GMT -5
These are incredible, the quality of the decals, the paint work, the realism. Outstanding !!!!
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Post by sandysixtysfan on May 5, 2016 17:23:01 GMT -5
A super job on all of these!
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Post by csl on May 5, 2016 17:41:01 GMT -5
Impressive. Great artwork, fine builds.
You must have quite the collection.
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Post by indy on May 5, 2016 22:11:52 GMT -5
All of the builds look great. I like going through them one by one though because there is so much to admire on each and everyone of them! Thank you for sharing. Glad the forum could help the collaboration of these builds.
Why was Ian Ashley's rollbar so much higher than the other Lolas?
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Post by ampersand on May 6, 2016 3:00:08 GMT -5
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Post by elsapito on May 6, 2016 3:02:40 GMT -5
Why was Ian Ashley's rollbar so much higher than the other Lolas? Jordan Interesting. As his head does not seem more prominent... what makes me think it's not for him. Probably the car was purchased or loaned from a team that had employed a taller dirver...? For instance, E. De Villota used to race an FW07 (in the UK Aurora championship) with an add-on to the roll bar he did not need. Because that was ex-Clay Regazzoni car, the swiss was really tall and needed it in 1979... |
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Post by ampersand on May 6, 2016 3:09:21 GMT -5
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Post by IndyCarModels on May 6, 2016 6:32:25 GMT -5
Really nice work!!!!!!
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Post by ampersand on May 6, 2016 7:50:12 GMT -5
Why was Ian Ashley's rollbar so much higher than the other Lolas? Jordan I concur with Elsapito, the car was probably intended for someone else. Ian Ashley is a rather short guy so he really doesn't need a high rollbar. Interestingly, Hess Racing also had an entry at Indy but didn't specify which chassis they would use - but they were assigned #29, the number the Kapsreiter team used. But the Kapsreiter team had to purchase a Lola T900 from AJ Foyt to put Daly in the show, so I don't know how that all adds up. Going through the 1985 Indy 500 enry list I also noticed that some of the big buck teams entered both Marches and Lolas. Kraco was one team that had entered both chassis for both drivers - does anybody know if they ever took delivery of those Lolas? It's also intersting that the Provimi team had entered both Lolas and Lotuses for Arie Luyendyk to drive - the Lotus project never took off, of course, but I seem to remember that Lotus was negociating with another team to run the car? On a more sombre note: oh my, how times have changed! There were almost 100 cars entered for the 1985 Indy 500, and now they are struggling to fill all 33 starting spots because there are not enough cars or engine leases - or sponsors to foot the bill. Get rid of spec chassis and engines, I say! |
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Post by clm1545 on May 6, 2016 8:02:12 GMT -5
Super job on all of them!
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Post by oldphotos on May 6, 2016 15:27:33 GMT -5
Indy Racing is now a business not the sport it once was. You can't buy a engine you lease them with a number of hours you can run, and you can't even work on them, SWT500 can explain this better than I can.
In the 1970's & 80's teams would enter back up cars to get Garage Space and extra Pit Badges even though the car itself never made it to the speedway. Remember 1987 Al Unser's car was on display in a hotel and when the 1987 Penske
car weren't working Penske brought back all the 1986 March for his team to use. If you look on Al Unser's roll hoop you'll see the #85 That's the # the car was entered under.
So there may have been 100 cars entered but a lot of them never came to the speedway.
The discussion about Spec. Chassis and engine leases there is no answer if you get rid of all this who could afford to build a chassis and come up with a new engine, because as soon as one team had a better package all the other teams would want that package , If they don't sell it to other teams they would dominate all the races, and if they sell them were all the same again.
You can talk about this all you want but I don't know what the answer is and if you do contact Indy Car Racing.
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2016 18:00:33 GMT -5
The IRL addressed all these issues....... Why every shade tree mechanic could sand cast his own engine block and build his own car with a sheet metal brake and a pop rivet gun. Then gun slingers from the USAC divisions would come in and claim Brickyard glory. You know, like Jules Goux and (expletive deleted).
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Post by Mr. Paxton on May 10, 2016 18:07:57 GMT -5
These models are absolutely incredible! Great choice of liveries.
Question: Can I get these decals to build these models for my collection? If so, I will be adding more kits to my order!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2018 5:10:04 GMT -5
Here are some shots of the #34 Wysard Racing Lola T900 raced by the great Jim Crawford at Indy. The team was largely unsponsored but picked up Canadian Tires sponsorship when uncle Jacques Villeneuve put his Canadian Tires March 85C in the wall during qualifications and got injured so the team had to withdraw. Jan has done a fantastiuc job of getting all the logos just right. It's a three color paint job using the excellent Tamiya masking tape. Unfortunately I sprayed the red on top of the blue, so it came out a little too dark, I think. Would you consider selling this model? Fantastic job! Extremely accurate. I should know - I’m a Wysard. My parents were the team owners. I can elaborate on the history of the livery on this car. At Indianapolis in 1985, Crawford qualified our Lola T900 but the car was disqualified for being underweight. In order to re-qualify, we had to replace the disqualified chassis (“tub”) with a new one. As we did not have a spare, we made a deal to purchase a T900 tub from the Canadian Tire team (who had elected to run a March 85C for Viileneuve). Part of this deal required us to leave their Canadian Tire logos in place. Crawford qualified this car at 205.525 mph, but we were a DNF in the race. So, there you have it. Hope you enjoyed this bit of obscure racing history! |
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