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Open wheels cars in HO are tricky - the standard chassis are relatively big and bulky. The AFX Mega-G chassis came along in 2008 and gave the potential for some nice low open wheelers. AFX have only produced one shape so far - the Panoz DP01 ChampCar - but this is a fabulous FastBodies resin model of the Lola-Buick driven by John Andretti at the 1989 Indy 500. Gary Fast has produced some lovely resin HO open-wheelers (mostly Indy cars) and this was my entry in a competition he ran a few years ago. The kit comes as the high-downforce road course version and I changed it to look like the car that ran at Indianapolis.

   

In contrast, I give you two Micro Scalextric F1 cars from 1995. These are bigger than 1/64 scale and still look extremely bulky in comparison to the Lola!