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Hello John, This is way too late to be of any help to you but may of use to others building a 1970 Yardley BRM, this link to Youtube solves the flag problem. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljK4dMD5zY4 13 minutes 10 seconds in, but be careful blink and you will miss the picture of the BRM’s rear wing...

Thanks for the link to the Nostalgia Forum Markus, I had been there and already and found cutaway drawing of a later M16. Forum Members may be interested to know that there is an index to the drawings that appear on the Nostalgia Forum, Cutaway thread that use to be posted every twenty pages but a r...

Thank you for that advice billgtp. But when I searched the Open Wheel Racing Modelling web site nothing of consequence came up, I did have some luck elsewhere, this link:
http://www.f1m.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=20406
Explains.

My thanks again, Hacksaw

While looking for some scale drawings of the 1971 Mclaren M16 Indianapolis car I came across some links and contacts that may be of interest to Forum Members. My usual first stop for drawings of racing cars from this period is the VSRN web site but on this occasion I drew a blank, this link for the ...

If I may open this up to include 1/12 scale, I have used Archer’s resin rivets numbers AR88032, AR88033 and AR88035 and I will be using them again. I use Mr. Mark Setter and Mr. Mark Softer solutions when applying the decals, you should be prepared for the occasional rivet to come off the carrier fi...

I hope that you don’t mind Michael but this seems as good a place as any to post this link to an image of Clark and Gurney in their Lotus 29’s: http://peterwindsor.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/jim-clark-dan-gurney_382.jpg And yes I have looked but can’t see any clues as to which tires are on which ca...

Can anyone help me locate drawings of the 1971 Mclaren M16 please? The lines of the Mclaren M16 Indianapolis car have caught my attention recently and I am investigating the possibility of scratch building Peter Revson’s 1971 pole winning car in 1/12 scale. A search of the internet has turned up: • ...

Hello John Regarding the diagonal stripes on the Union Flag I would hazard a guess that because the image is taken with the Union Flag at a very shallow angle to the camera the narrow red diagonal stripes have been lost due to a lack of resolution. This is a link to one of the images that you show o...

Hello James, A few thoughts to add to your “Great Honda Transformation Quest”. First the engine in the Honda RA301 was a 90º V12 where as the BRM’s of that period had a 60º V12. BRM expertise was used in the Matra and Gurney Eagle V12’s, both these have a 60º V12. Therefore if you chouse to make a c...

If I might add the following link to this thread, it leads to a list of Hewland gearboxes, dates and intended uses. Given the name of the author it is probably the most authoritive list that you are likely to find:

http://www.race-cars.com/utility/hewlandr.htm

Hacksaw