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  1. joe sackey

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    #8102 Lemacc, Feb 5, 2018
    Yes sorry i meant around the wheel arches! :)

     
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    #8103 joe sackey, Feb 5, 2018
    I'm not sure if that's color saturation or actual red caulking.
     
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    #8106 joe sackey, Feb 5, 2018
    It looks really good in its new wingless guise.
     
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    #8107 joe sackey, Feb 5, 2018
    I looked at the actual image of the car in the owner's brochure and it appears to have the standard black caulking.

    Certain images such as the one below show the caulking, but in other digital images such as John's car on this page the caulking appears to be red because of low-resolution color saturation, we see this often with red cars. Bear in mind the caulking when the cars were new was thinner than is being redone in contemporary times.

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    #8109 johnhoughtaling, Feb 6, 2018
    The C3PO and R2 are a bit more than replicas. While not screen shot they were made by Lucas film contractors for official events. The R2 is one of the most operational made.

    And the landspeeder was made by the original guys from spares and molds of the original after it was destroyed


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    #8112 GTAV6, Feb 7, 2018
    Are those side repeaters mounted abnormally high up, even for a QV?
     
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    #8113 joe sackey, Feb 7, 2018
    I'm not sure from that angle, here is a recent shot of Matt's car in Melbourne, Australia for comparison

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    #8117 joe sackey, Feb 7, 2018
    One final perspective, of GLA12995 itself, when it was for sale some time back @ DK Engineering, note repeater placement

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    #8118 judealexander, Feb 7, 2018
    Wow! Thanks for pointing this out! Indeed, this appears to be FLA12824. The license plate number threw me off, but attached is a picture of the car at auction in Paris during Artcurial 2013, with the same license plate. Tom Papadopolous of Autosport Design bought the car at Artcurial, and imported it to the US, thereafter. I purchased the car from one of his clients in 2015. Very cool--can't thank you enough. Now, gotta order the book.... Image Unavailable, Please Login
     
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    #8120 joe sackey, Feb 7, 2018
    Sorry for costing you money with my observation, meanwhile here below is the very moment Tom purchased FLA12824

    Perhaps the red cars are always jealous of the attention the Downdraft gets

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    #8121 joe sackey, Feb 8, 2018
    Mike Perry just posted this image of himself with 3 Countach Downdrafts behind Portman Lamborghini's George St showroom circa 1988, that's Mike Taylor's Jersey-registered car in front. I vividly recall his recounting of a trip he took from London to Bologna for the 25th Anniversary in that car, during which he drove it on the Autostrada as fast as it would go...

    Meanwhile, I owe Mike P many thanks, a few years before this image was taken he sold me my first Lamborghini (a Countach LP500S) and the love affair commenced

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    #8122 GTAV6, Feb 8, 2018
    The seemingly additional height could just simply be an optical illusion when the owner (or whomever), chooses to rotate the repeater to align with the angled front of the car, rather than square to the ground?
     
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    #8123 joe sackey, Feb 8, 2018
    Yes, that could be.
     
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    #8124 judealexander, Feb 8, 2018
    Amazed how you find these pictures! Will add it to my "scrap book" on the car.
     
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    One last note, if you ever catch up with Pierre Brignole, ask him if he knows anything about FLA12824 being used (briefly) in a French movie.
     
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