[SAMPSON]

Hi,heres a Airfix-Mrrc Motor Ace set. It includes a Yellow Honda & a blue Eagle Westlake. Its set MR7 which is the oval layout.Thanks,Bernard

 

[loosesalute]

Very nice Bernard. Looks unused.
Cheers
Kev.

 

[SAMPSON]

Thanks Kev,it is unused,Bernard

 

[scuderia_turini]

Hello Bernard, thanks for posting this - have never seen Airfix track in black, always grey.

Kind regards, Leo

 

[SL0TCAR]

Wow!....thanks Bernard,

Billy

 

[bwaminispeed]

Also, have never seen Airfix track in black.

All 400 plus pieces of mine are grey.

 

[Rob J]

Great to find an unused set, Bernard.
It would be from some time around 1970, when Airfix added wings and airboxes to all its single-seaters in an attempt to update them, even the previously nice BRM P261 and other cars with the real air intakes outside the airbox, on the side of the engine vee, like the Honda.
Everything also got wide wheels and it was probably then that the motor changed to one with a small front bearing case.
Cars sold singly had 'Plus' added to the name, e.g. Matra Ford Plus and BRM Plus.
Perhaps Airfix also joined the black track brigade then. I haven't seen it before either. Is the section joining system any different?
Rob J

 

[SAMPSON]

Hi,the connections are different.The gray track has bent flat contacts that touch each other.Ive never seen this before ,but the later black track has little springs which go into their opposite side.

,Bernard

 

[Rob J]

Thanks, Bernard. Looks like a variation on the spring connectors VIP used in its VIPtrack in the early-mid-1960s. There were sliding metal clips on the outside of each section. It worked well.
Rob J

 

[David Lawson]

I remember very well those little brass strips that slipped in the end of each track section - talk about sore fingers after setting up a track.

David

 

[RikoRocket]

QUOTE (Rob J @ 14 May 2012, 01:03) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>It would be from some time around 1970, when Airfix added wings and airboxes to all its single-seaters in an attempt to update them, even the previously nice BRM P261 and other cars with the real air intakes outside the airbox, on the side of the engine vee, like the Honda.

You learn something every day! I've looked at that box lid a million times (same picture on my Clubman kit boxes) and never noticed the dual air intakes being so wrong!

 

[scuderia_turini]

I think the track is the star in this thread

Leo

 

[Rob J]

Here's an advert for two of the Plus cars, with the silly airbox atop the exhausts on the BRM and the ugly wings on both.
As Leo said, the track is the star of this thread.
Rob J

 

[SL0TCAR]

QUOTE (Rob J @ 15 May 2012, 00:20) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>As Leo said, the track is the star of this thread.
Rob J

Nice track, but hey? What about those cars? Superlative and thanks again Bernard for putting them up for us all to see.

Outstanding contribution from you. As always, most impressive.

Just love the stuff you put on here.

Cheers,
Billy