1970 Ferrari 512s

This car was built by Torbjörn Lundkvist and Anders Lattermann to race in the 5 Liter long distance race in Germany in august 2005. Unfortunatly we got problem with the journey and had to cancel the start so this car has never been raced.

The original Ferrari 512S made its race debut in the 24 Hours of Daytona. Mario Andretti, Arturo Mezario and Jackie Ickx drive it to a third place finish after starting in pole position.

Back to the model, the body comes from an old plastic kit from Protar. The fit was bad and Torbjörn who built and painted the body had a tough time getting the pieces together. Here it is primed and painted.

The body is after several mishappenings painted and decaled and is ready to mate the chassis at my place.

The driver, nicely painted and with seat belt.

Since half of the race was in night time, the car had to be equiped with working lights. And here came the next problem, there simply wasn't any room for the lighting curcuit.

After several different ideas, the only thing that was left was to make a box right into the interior and place it under it. Here the box is still unpainted. When painted it is hardly noticable from the outside, altough it never feels good to alter a model this much from what is correct.

This is how the lighting curcuit looks on both sides.

The next problem was the wheels. Since this is a slotracer we wanted it as close to the ground as possible and with the wheels we aimed for it just didn't get any good, either to little rubber on the rims making it look like low profile tyres which wasn't what they raced on in the 70s. The other alternative was to place the body higher and that isn't good for performance. The only fix was to go to smaller rims which is another things that isn't correct model wise but with the plastic wheels turned down and fitted inside the aluminium rims as inserts it did look quite ok.


The car ready to hit the track.The lighting curcuit will light for about 60 seconds even without track power since it has a electhrolyth capacitor as rechargable battery. Daylight diods in the front and red standard ones in the back.

And this is what the competitors will see of the car...