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Cars I'd Like To See

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No doubt this is done to death in these forums, but I've been a bit surprised by the cars I don't see currently available. Perhaps they have been done long ago and no one is making them at present. Anyway... here's my current list:

Triumph TR-3
Triumph TR-4
Triumph Spitfire
MG-B GT
Austin Healy Sprite
Sunbeam Tiger
AMC Trans-Am Javelin
Mercury Cyclone
Jim Clark's Lotus Ford
Lotus Elan
Jaguar XKE (someone must have done this one)
Cord
Auburn Speedster


Mike
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Thanks Paul!
Great resources. It may be that I will have to build some of these... but I would have thought that for some there would be enough general interest to warrant Scalextric or SCX producing them. Especially to Triumphs and the Lotus. But then... that's why I'm not in product development and marketing. LOL.


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I found out from one of Paul's resources that Scalextric evidently once did a Sunbeam Tiger. Hey, Scalextric! How about an updated re-issue? And, man, those Triumphs would look and sell great. And evidently no one has done the MG-B GT... even in a plastic kit model. Opportunity knocking. LOL

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A set of 3 or 4 IROC Cameros would be nice... and set up some nice IROC racing series in clubs and the like.

Scalextric seems to have this penchant for links to films. Maybe some classic cars from classic films. Perhaps an Alfa Duetto Spider like the one from "The Graduate" with a young Hoffman at the wheel? And an optional Mrs. Robinson in black hose and nothing else to set beside him.

Or, the bathtub Porsche from "The Drowning Pool" with Paul Newman?

A souped-up 1956 Ford with Robert Mitchum at the wheel running whiskey in Appalachia? (Can't, for the life of me, think of the title of that movie.)


Mike
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QUOTE (ruhdwulf @ 21 Oct 2004, 08:28)A souped-up 1956 Ford with Robert Mitchum at the wheel running whiskey in Appalachia? (Can't, for the life of me, think of the title of that movie.)


Mike
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The movie was Thunder Road (1958).

A bit of trivia about the movie: All of the "moonshine runner" cars in the film had actually been used by moonshiners in the Asheville, North Carolina area, where the film was shot. The moonshiners sold the cars to the film company in order to buy newer and faster cars.


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