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Re: The original "M" car
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Wed, 7 May 2003 17:51:06 GMT
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Andreas,
This model is great! Absolutely an 'El-Caracho' creation! LEGO: contract the
guy, because his creations are better than yours!!
I can imagine you love this car very much. When I was a little boy (six of
seven I guess) my parents gave me a car quartet game. On one of the cards
this car is shown. And I also liked the data underneath it: 262 km per hour,
0 - 100: about 5 or 6 seconds?? I can't remember it (I still have those
cards, but I don't know where I put them). So as you've mentioned also, I
like this M1 more than any Ferrari, Lamborghini or any other Italian super
car. It's very rare, I never saw one in real life :-(
Anyway, the shape of your model is perfect. When I saw the small pictures on
Lugnet I immediately thought: oh ooh, an El-Caracho creation. And, of
course, I wanted to see the rest. But the scale is about 1:11,5 if I'm
right? Next time make it 1:13, so I can use it as a heavy haulage escort ;-)
When are you going to build my favorite brand:
http://www.fantasycars.com/sedans/html/rs2.html
http://kak.net/audi/audi-rs2.htm
This is a wolf in sheep clothing! Five cylinder 2.2 litres, 315 hp by
Porsche turbo intercooled engine, max. speed 262 km per hour, 0 - 100 within
5.5 seconds etc.?
Dennis Bosman
In lugnet.announce.moc, Andreas Engel writes:
> Hi folks!
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> I just finished building the original "M" car, the BMW M1. Only 450 of the
> real ones were built, and even less out of Lego bricks, I guess :-)
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> Unlike most people, who probably favor Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Porsches or
> whatever, I would prefer to own and drive this motorized jewel over ANY
> other car in the world.
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> Again I decided to rebuild a model I already had built out of Lego bricks as
> a child, just like it is the case with some other models at my website.
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> I took a different building approach this time, because I built the chassis
> and bodywork of the car first and then checked which official Lego set
> contains wheels in a size that that would fit to my model.
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> It turned out that the only matching tires were the 56x28 ZRs from the 8475
> RC Race Buggy set. These are some really cool tires, too bad they are
> available in only one rather expensive set right now.
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> Pictures, construction details ... the whole story can be found at my website:
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> http://www.el-caracho.de
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> Any comments are welcome.
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> Andreas Engel
> aka "El Caracho"
>
> P.S.: Only the pictures can also be found at brickshelf, after it's
> moderated, of course:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=42721
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