Kit's Khaos

[kerick]

That's one nice looking attic!

[McColm]

I used a paste table as a workbench before just need to reinforce the legs and a few sheets of plywood for the top.

[PR19_Kit]

While taking a break from the Super Monsoon and Spiteful builds, until the One Week GB comes upon us of course, I'm catching up on building one of the ZILLIONS of slot racer kits I have in the New L:oft.

This one's a Policar BRM P160 white kit from the early 70s, and I want to build it as Peter Gethin's #18 Yardley BRM car which won the 1971 Italian GP at Monza with the tiniest winning margin of all time! He crossed the line 0.01 seconds ahead of Ronnie Peterson's March. All five of the lead cars were covered in 0.61 seconds too, it was a tight finish!



The white kit has all possible P160 options included, which means millions of little bit, and it doesn't come with any instructions! 

You have to dive into the Policar web site and download them as a 22 pager .pdf file! I don't want to haul my laptop up onto the New Loft, it's probably melt, it's so hot up there, I printed them out.............. all 22 pages!

So far it's not going too badly, and I've done most of the changes to make it into the very low-drag configuration they adopted for the Monza race.



Goodness knows how they build them in the factory, ready painted, as the white engine cover (red arrowed) just WON'T fit without chopping some parts of the oil collector pipework (green arrowed) away. 

[Pellson]

Oh Ronnie.. He was the nicest man. Humble and kind, but a true national hero. Every Swede having access to a television set watched every race he participated in, and I still vividly remember the fatal crash on the Monza circuit seven years after this event, Kit.