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Wasn't planning to meatball it but maybe? I just happen to have a few colorforms style 68s laying around the shop!

@Chris MacDonald I'll leave it to others to do a perfect copy of 550-0055. This one's for the connoisseur who'd be more apt to ask if this was in tribute to the one Sir Stirling drove Down Under (0056) or if it's a copy of the Jean Behra car (0067) or maybe Seinfeld's (0060).

I did toy with painting the fan shroud like

but quickly set that idea aside. 

I tried to get my quirky details from 550-0051, mainly because, when I started the build, there were a lot of really large, nicely detailed pics on the web featuring both the finished car and the rebuild from many years ago. That car is French blue and, like mine, has the full-width perspex screen, ten screws holding the the front grill on, Autopulse fuel pumps, banjo steering wheel, metric gauges and full upholstery, plus the five-bolt Knecht air cleaners and the black painted frame tubes under the clam. Its rear-view mirror is a Raydyot, which I bought one of but which would not fit on the dash with the windscreen in, so it's in a box. Dang!

It's also got the Sonauto badge on the back deck and the copy of that's like $230 euros so the next guy can spring for that if he's crazier than me.

And it's a high rail frame car and I decided replicating that was too much of too much.

But I did do one very insane, subtle detail in its tribute.

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