Carrera Panamericana Mexico

As far as I know, metallised paints for cars were developped in the sixties, but I suppose it could be some kind of varnish applied on the bare metal?

 

They had them before then as several pre 1960's Ferrari's had metalic paint. In some color pictures it looks gold and in some pictures it looks almost copper. It was painted in Mexico after the owner bought the car and was not silver.

 

Thanks, Tom.

I would like to show you some pictures of 1/32 scale slot cars made by José Ramón Arce, a professional top level modeller, using my decals. He wants to thank this forum for the valuable info received, with special mention to Boudewyjn for the pictures of Molter's Mercedes:
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Look very nice. The Lancia's are also great.

 

Tom, I had for years harbored the fantasy dream of doing the Mille Miglia retrospective in a B20 and 25 years ago almost had one that I might have been able to afford. Great, great automobiles. My actual dream was for a B24 Spyder, great & drop-dead gorgeous car, but practicality pointed me at the B20 since there is so often fair spots of rain during the MM.

 

Holy cow, is the third car a Cadillac?

I LOVE the canopy. Very WW2 fighter plane.

 

Never mind, it's a Lincoln. Awesome looking car.

 

I have to post this link. The collection is from a Greek Pan Am model builder who has been on these pages before and includes some scratch built 1/43rd models. Amazing attention to detail.


Duegieditrice.it ? Leggi argomento - Panamericana

 

Sorry but this collection is property of Dr. Eugenio Carboni, a well known italian collector.

Regards

Umberto

 

Hi all,
Please F1tommy correct yesterdays post since the collection is not mine (some of the displayed models are) and the link is of a group of very well informed Italian collector modelers who love the original 1950-54 Carrera Panamericana as much as i do.
Best regards, Apostolos

 

Correction, the wonderful collection as stated above is the property of Dr. Eugenio Carboni, a well known italian collector. Sorry for the mistake.

Again the link:

Duegieditrice.it ? Leggi argomento - Panamericana


I have good news, someone will be making 0286AM in a full detail 1/24th scale kit soon. Also the Escuderia24 750 Monza kit should be out later this year I hope also in 1/24th scale.

 

Hi Michael, I just asked you pics for my models...may be you have an inside view of the 340 America Vignale #0082AM?
Thank you in advance, best regards,
Alessandro

http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/vintage-thru-365-gtc4-sponsored-vintage-driving-machines/459186-ferrari-340-america-0082a-how-they-were.html

 

Hello,

Would anyone have pictures of Fernando Razo Maciel's Jaguar Mk VII in the II Panamericana other than these two? I mean the real car, forget the Provence Moulages model because it's got a lot of mistakes.
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Thank you, Monte43, but the second one corresponds to the Chrysler Saratoga that was the driver's first option before he turned to the Jaguar Mk VII. Some elements of the decoration remained on the Jaguar, though.

 

Very nice pre A 356 Pan Am 1953 Porsche in 1/43rd:

Link:

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Hey Tom, very nice is an understatement.
Fantastic i might add.
Apostolos

 

The model is beautifully made, nobody would say it's 1/43 scale. However, decoration is not flawless: Numbers are a little too thick and, in spite of what this picture looks like, I would bet the dark letters in the Guatemala and "Asociación Guatemalteca de Caminos" were blue, not black. Guatemala flag is blue-white-blue, which would make sense for the word in blue and white, not in black and white.
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This is for the other Pan Am forum...The B20 restoration:

1951 ex-Mille Miglia, ex-Le Mans, Lancia Aurelia B20GT » Thornley Kelham

 

And 2 pictures of the Lancia B20 Pan Am 1951 under restoration. Really to bad Lancia srapped all the lightweight works 1952 cars!!
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I have a remark about the different cars driven by Salvador López Chávez and wearing the Calzado Canadá livery: Most modellers have assumed the background color under the red shadowed white letters was green probably because the mexican flag is red-white-green. However, in all the advertisements of that firm, the background color was blue:
http://ferrusca.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/canada.png
http://spd.fotolog.com/photo/61/25/18/teacuerdasde/1195229342_f.jpg
And so most likely was on the cars.

 

I'm searching for the "Auto Club Velocidad de Guadalajara A.C." logo. This is the club Salvador López belonged to and different variations of its logo were painted on his cars.
I've been searching in the web without result, what is more frustrating, there was a grille badge of this club for sale at E-Bay but it was sold in February and the photos are not there anymore.

 

This is the best image I've found:
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That is by far the best photo I have seen of it. We could not figure out what it said when I did my decals.

As for the green or blue you might be right. The old color Kodachrome film does yellow with age(yellow and blue looks green).

 

This photo corresponds to the Porsche 356: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VX7Onff3zOE/TjL2AFfvouI/AAAAAAAAAwA/q104E9r9nf4/s1600/Porsche%2B356%2B2.JPG
On the 550 it was slightly different, the circle with the lettering was inside the flag instead of outside.
I asked the man that sold the grille badge on E-Bay if he had kept the photos he made for the auction, but he won't be available until 8th October. In the meanwhile, that's the description of the badge he made in the auction: "features a checkered flag and vintage open wheel indy style car design" which fits with the picture shown before.