Glenn Street

 Porsche 935/77 by Bandai, Glenn built in 1981 but bought a replacement shell & kit from a stand at a recent model show. Glenn then sprayed it white & applied the ageing decals to it, the Martini stripes were breaking up, but looked it all worked out great in the end. 

  Revell 1/24 Porsche Carrera RS 3.0 – turns out it was the prototype (only 56 built) 3.0 litre engine that became the 930 Turbo in ’76, Glenn discovered it ran at Le Mans 1975 and finished 1st in class & 10th overall.

 The decals are from Le Mans decals, the model not quite out of the box – the engine was missing, but was later found, Glenn swapped the tyres for better quality one piece ones, and fitted wider rear rims as fitted to the car.

 The suspension was lowered F&R, the drive shaft one piece bit was missing so he used Tamiya Subaru boots fitted to steel rivet shafts, & made a new exhaust system with twin outlets, & put in a steering rack too. 

  The 1/43 Porsche 911S from Le Mans 1971, is a kit from Tameo models (Italy). GLenn bought this particular model of a Targa Florio car as it had Minilite wheels supplied with it, but they were not very good, so he used K&R replicas wheel centres instead. This car was driven by Paul Vesty & Richard Bond. Glenn had never heard about this car, until he bought a book about Porsche at Le Mans in Tavistock Pannier market on his way home from holiday in Cornwall a few years ago This car was sponsored by Bowmaker plant, the Caterpillar dealers who Glenn served an apprenticeship with from ’73 – ’78,  no one had ever mentioned it & there were motor sport fans he worked with! Glenn bought some decals from Le Mans decals to finish it off.

  Ferrari 512s entered by Spanish Escuderia Montjuich team in 1970, is a 1/43 model by Brumm. 

Glenn had already changed the axles for wider ones to put the wheels out in the arches, it was from a race at Monza in yellow (#23), so he bought some decals from Le Mans decals of the Montjuich car, which meant cutting the roof panel out as it was the spyder version at Le Mans 1970. 

Glenn also fitted an air box from a Matchbox Surtees F1 model and when he got the model finished, while reading the Gordon Spice’s Biography (Spice of life - recommended) he learned that Spice was the 3rd driver, qualified well but the team owner crashed the car in the race before Gordy got to drive. 

The Tamiya 1/24 Alpine A110 Rally Car was used as the base for this Le Mans Model which ran at Le Mans in 1968. Glenn thought they only ever rallied them, but applied the decals & it looks better with them.

 Morgan 4/4 from Le Mans 1962 is the famous TOK 258 of Chris Lawrence. Glenn bought a Vitesse  blue race car model, stripped it, resprayed B.R.G. the windscreen, side screens & hardtop came from the Corgi M.G.A. modified to fit, the soft top became a hard top with repro-filed rear window & Testors filler (recommended – the best he has ever used…) the decals & Number plates came from Le Mans decals. The spare wheel is fitted with a plastic disc from spares box.  

  M.G.EX182 of Le Mans 1955, the M.G.A. prototype, this is based on another £5 Corgi ‘90’s 1/43 model – soft top & screens, Glenn made a lipped cockpit/screen surround & tonneau with Evergreen/Lexan, + rear view mirror, Spotlight drilled into Grille, + decals & no. plates + bonnet straps.