MiniAuto Gt40

QUOTE If they were taped, I wonder why Fly didn't use there trademark silver sticky tape, in a way similar to the Lola, smashed 917 etc.

Actually, the color of the tape is wrong. The correct color is medium-dark gray with a tinge of metallic in it. This "duct" tape was first used for air conditionning sealing when building houses in the USA in the 1950's, then on Indy cars in the mid 1960's as a fix-it-all repair tape. It was then brought to Europe by racing car teams from the USA and distributed as "race tape". FLY used the silver tape because either they did not know the exact color, or they could not get it. Either way it is no big deal, especially since few appear to care, since all these precise models are only..toys, right?

QUOTE two things must be remembered. Firstly, a normal GT40 sells for £40 and the Miniauto model sells for £67, both at rrp. Since very few retailers use full rrp, the cost is not 75% more, in fact it will probably be no-where near from most dealers.

You are right, the mark-up is not 75% but 67.5%, a huge difference indeed. Only the retailers pay the same amount for one as they RETAIL the standard version. So they are supposed to give the special-limited-sure-to-be-highly-collectible version at lower profit?