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From the same seller as the BRM Porsche I posted earlier. Recognise the replacement spoiler style on the Carrera De Tomaso? These three were £57 posted and came with two extra guides - the black bits in the photo.. 

   

First under the knife was the De Tomaso. Apart from the spoiler and missing mirrors there wasn't a lot wrong with it. (Really?)  Yes, well .... fortunately the RC style spoiler was fitted to the broken stubs of the original so no damage removing it. However, it's going to take a lot of work to clean out the original channels in order to fit a 'proper' replacement. Luckily I have good photos of an unmolested original to work from and it's a fairly simple shape to approximate. It'll be done in either a sheet alloy or carbon fibre finish though, rather than trying to replicate the original colours. So far it's responding really well to the 'make it mine' routine and cleaning up beautifully. Weird tyres though!

   

More work was required on the Pink Kar GTO. You might be able to see in the opening photo the oversized rear tyres and wider track. Less noticable is the fogged glass - ALL of it. At first I thought it was liquid styrene but luckily not. Maybe hazing from superglue? No - too uniform and on the outside. In the end I figured it to be some sort of clear spray that had 'gone off'. Fortunately the glass was easy to pop out. It took a LOT of tedious fingernail scraping mm. by mm. to get it all off, then multiple polishing sessions with Autoglym and then Carnauba wax to get it crystal clear again but it was worth it, so much so that I've treated it to a set of Pendles wire wheels, classic tyres and Slot.it axles and crown wheel. The back was lowered 1/8" so it sat right too. Just got to add the two eared spinners at some point - and I might add white roundels with black numbers over the yellow. It may be a 1:1 livery but it just doesn't look right to me.

Nearly finished. Just got to figure out a replacement clear airscoop for the bonnet. Maybe doing both the same?

   

Finally there's the MG Vanquish Lola T260. This was what I was REALLY after and it looked mint. Unfortunately it either travelled badly or the seller was a bit coy and clever over the rear spoiler, which was sadly broken. A simple fix, I think - but not one I'd banked on. I'm saving that for later. In the meantime the spoiler was Blu-Tacked in place for the photo, the Blu-Tack then being rather amateurishly photoshopped out. Hopefully I'll do a better job with the real fix.   

      

All these have been shown in the 'What's on your bench' thread rather than in the 'Cars bought in 2021' as I was too late for that - and I can't with all honesty say they were bought in 2022. THOSE will come another day