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Far enough along to bring this over from the Porsche thread. Alan Hamilton’s 906 Spyder . SW brass and wire chassis with NSR 21.5K Shark. Super Shells body.
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Porsche 906 Spyder
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Lovely. I just bought a Super Shells body sans windscreen to make chassis #132 that Herb Wetanson raced to 17th place (from 30th on the grid) in the 1966 Bridgehampton Can-Am. Will follow with interest.
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Keep us posted on your progress, too. What kind of running gear are you planning?
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Michael, that looks really nice.
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Nice to see you doing the spyder. That car had quite a career, and ended up looking like nothing that came out of Stuttgart, that's for certain.
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Who made the bodies?
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I was just about to query your 3D printed bodyshells.
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A little progress aided by some guesswork guided by magnifying glass examinations of the available color photos for the front quarter panel details.
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After seeing these pics I have straightened the color bar decal and thinking about replacing this Porsche one because of the faded P.
The simple SW chassis runs well already, although will need new tires due to my over-zealous edge rounding on the right.
After seeing these pics I have straightened the color bar decal and thinking about replacing this Porsche one because of the faded P.
The simple SW chassis runs well already, although will need new tires due to my over-zealous edge rounding on the right.
The Alan Hamilton 906 had quite a career of its own. I think it ended up converted to 908 spec, with flat 8 upgrade then underwent a complete change as a hillclimb car with very different bodywork and engine swaps including a 289 V8 from memory. (Later purchased by Murray Bingham and underwent further conversions. Murray comments occasionally about the car on Facebook) Believe it was eventually bought back by Porsche and converted back to 906 or 908 spider spec.
The details are a bit hazy and confusing, I could also be getting confused with a different Alan Hamilton 906. Considering the car went through many configurations and Alan had another 908 (edit: and possibly a second 906) which was road registered. (And famously, a 917/10 which was occasionally given a street permit)
There is an article about his cars on the primotipo website. Feel free to correct me if I’m mistaken on any of the details as this is all from memory.
The details are a bit hazy and confusing, I could also be getting confused with a different Alan Hamilton 906. Considering the car went through many configurations and Alan had another 908 (edit: and possibly a second 906) which was road registered. (And famously, a 917/10 which was occasionally given a street permit)
There is an article about his cars on the primotipo website. Feel free to correct me if I’m mistaken on any of the details as this is all from memory.
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Slotspeed, thanks for the info. Pretty much what I found out. I especially liked the story of getting a street permit for the Can-Am 917/10 during the week of the Australian GP and auctioning off rides to a cafe.
There are quite a few photos on Facebook of his various Porsche racing cars, including photos on the street of a 906 or 908 and the 917/10 at the “Seaforth GP” which I think was a demonstration/untimed hillclimb of many amazing racing cars in the hills of Seaforth NSW, Australia. Most of them can be found in the “old motor racing photos - Australia” group.
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Just have to mount the body and figure out what to do with the headlights. The recess in the shell doesn’t have enough vertical face to mount lenses in the correct position. I’ll have to stew on this for a while.
Dremel tool and a steady hand?
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The body came with these “inserts “ for the headlight recess so I decided to make it easy on myself and just use them.
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Pretty happy with the results. An unusual livery to add to the cars of the era.
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Nice build, I did the same car a few years ago based in a Fly 906.
The car changed liveries often during its short time here in a Australia.
The actual history is a little shady.
The car arrived with a lot of spares, and Hamilton seemed to have enough spare to build a complete car!
Most experts here believe the Hillclimb car was actually a re encarnation!
The car changed liveries often during its short time here in a Australia.
The actual history is a little shady.
The car arrived with a lot of spares, and Hamilton seemed to have enough spare to build a complete car!
Most experts here believe the Hillclimb car was actually a re encarnation!
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