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Why, why, why do I keep buying Porsche slot cars?

My latest, although I do like the 917/10

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“Cars we don’t need but everyone wants them”

Beautiful 🤩

 

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Modern Porsches but will they ever appeal as slot cars? View attachment 320966 View attachment 320967 View attachment 320968 View attachment 320969 View attachment 320970

A white Panamera eh? Love that car Laurence👍🏼

 

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And which Porsche is this?
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Looks Can am yo me, but couldn’t tell for sure.🙂

 

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They're a complex mess to disguise the fact that no commercial sponsorship exists anymore.

Cigarettes were replaced by banks, which went bust. Banks were replaced by telecommunications companies, which then devoured each other and, thanks to the Internet, became content providers rather than investors in other people's content.

These days we're back to the 1960s in that it's OEM supply partners defensively spending money to show faith in their manufacturer relationships. You've got your fuel company, your lubricants, your spark plugs, brake linings, cybersecurity and whatever else all taking a financial hit on their earnings from the relationship in order to promote it through the sport because no other b*gger is interested.

Thats why RB are some of the coolest liveries in all classes of Motorsport! Just hope that the animal defenders don’t boicot the RB factories because of the bulls 😅

Ps. FIA should allow bring back the tobacco and alcohol advertising, after all drugs(cannabis)is being legalized everywhere, so why the hypocrisy, I want my modern Camel, JPS and Marlboro liveries 😀(BtwI have said it before but I’m a not smoker) .

 

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Cheers Dave, its sidewinder normal gears. I just realised that although it was sold by Fly and came in a Fly box with Fly on the chasssis, its not Fly. It has grubscrew front axle height adjusters like slot.it, not seen those on Fly. Tyres are not Fly, wheels wrong size.
Its physically identical to the Falcon 924GTP from a couple of years ago. Same wheels, same half opened windows etc etc etc
So the motor is likely to be not Fly as well, explaining the lack of brakes.
Project for tomorrow...

Maybe a Slot it motor would suit it fine…

 

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Well, well, well, look what the cat dragged in…

Got them at the swap meet on the Northern Club today, a really sweet deal for all three, brand new, just without plastic boxes, a nice addition to the paddock.

 

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Still one of the world's best road cars all these years later. View attachment 323353

Read somewhere that the cost of producing this car was bigger than the revenues of the sales, is this true?

 

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After having been awoken at 4am by a thunderstorm, I went a-mooching 'smorn and found this NSR 917. I'd put it in a box and had completely forgotten about it. It's never been used, which is probably contrary to section 1 of the 'Crimes Involving Shelf Queens Act, 1960,' and if it isn't, it probably should be. View attachment 323370 View attachment 323371

Ah well, something to which I can look forward after qualy for the US GP.

Had that same Porsche a few years ago, but give it away to a mate that wanted it so much, never to find another one for me 🥲

Yes, Laurence, it’s a crime against the Racers Code, but fortunately for you, punishment can be avoided by making five Force 10 duties or alternatively, racing 100 laps without magnets in any slot track, so if I were you, I’d hurry to the Mess and do the laps asap!

 

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Another Slot It livery that should be produced in my view. I'm a bit of a sucker for gold-coloured cars. View attachment 323486 View attachment 323487

I think this was made by Slot it already, just not sure about the car number🤔

 

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1970 Monza 1000km. No match at all…..?
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What was the distance between P1 &P2? ,but even on a close battle I think it would be difficult to judge, as what is a big distance, tenths, seconds? After all the “almost beat you” is trivial in any race.

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second position is first loser I think.

I understand Senna said that 🙂

 

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The Panzer won by one minute and twenty six seconds, FL went to the winner as a1:25.2, so basically was just under a lap ahead at the flag.

I know it’s endurance and probably a lap is not “much”, but even in 1:32 it’s hard to say it’s a close result, Imho.

Daniel

 

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With the WEC next year it's going to be a game of cat n mouse, show your hand toooooo early and you get BOPped, but Le Man's may be double points, so if you have a steady run until there and then win at LM you've probably made up the points missed by sandbagging in the earlier rounds.

There was a time when the best car won, subject to not hitting bad luck.
Will the fact that some car models will run in IMSA as well as WEC speed up their development/ reliability despite having the specification /homologation frozen.

I love the idea of homologation WEC/IMSA not just in 1:1 but in 1:32 😀👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Until Porsche returns to the WEC, I’ll have in HY/LMDP Glyckenhaus as my fav, just for the fun of having an underdog team who can kick the big brands and in the GT classes, well my sympathies are divided as I’m a Porsche fan, but Ferrari is my youth love, Aston Martin is the school crush and Vette is the girl you would take out a weekend to the beach without telling your girlfriend 🙃

 

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Porsche's failed Indycar project. View attachment 326146 View attachment 326147 ì

It looks great for a failed attempt Laurence, did it make it to the track or just drawings?

 

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Wow! Those Silverline Racer cars are among the delicatessen stuff, beautiful … and pricey 😉🙂👍🏼

 

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Glad to have you back on the forum Laurence😀, now back to work, ‘cause those Porsches and Beetles aren’t gonna build themselves 😉

 

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So you went shopping Laurence? Nice findings 👌🏼👍🏼, the yellow 917(k) looks really nice, also I never saw before a “Giesse” 911GT1, the livery suits fine😀

 

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Daytona 24hrs has just started a few hours ago, the wit of the 963 is something we all wanted to watch, car is imho a beautiful masterpiece of engineering and design, captures some of the spirit of the 962 but with more power, watched the first 3hrs and they go like hell but still lots of time to say they will win.

Happily Imsa is not as greedy as other racing series and shares the live tv here:

https://www.imsa.com/tv/

Leave a pic of the cars specs comparison to the competition.

Cheers

 

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Glad to see you are posting again friend, keep the good recovery Laurence!

 

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5 minutes? Wow!