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Title: What models are these?
Post by: GERALD WIMMER on June 29, 2019, 04:58:10 AM: Hello
Have a guess what model stunter has my brother Karl, has been building (and nearly ready to cover) and what model of motor vehicle does he drive (from 1947)

Regards Gerald
Title: Re: What models are these?
Post by: Ara Dedekian on June 29, 2019, 06:09:20 AM: A Morris?

Ara
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Post by: Robert Zambelli on June 29, 2019, 06:17:25 AM: Morris Minor?
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Post by: dennis lipsett on June 29, 2019, 08:01:09 AM: looks like a Consolidated/Scarinzi Trident done as a profile model
Title: Re: What models are these?
Post by: Ian MacNeil on June 29, 2019, 11:11:19 AM: The car is either a Morris Minor or the larger Morris Oxford.
I'll guess that it is an Oxford.
My parents owned 1951 and 1956 Oxfords so I'm biased.
The same model styles carried over for many years.
Note the pop out turn signal arm on the B-pillar between the front and rear doors.
There is slot in the front bumper for the engine crank in case the battery died.
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Post by: Robert Zambelli on June 29, 2019, 11:16:37 AM: Ian - I believe the pop-out turn signals were called "Traficaters"!
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Post by: Ian MacNeil on June 29, 2019, 11:42:54 AM: Thanks Robert, I checked the net and you are correct, I had never heard that term before.
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Post by: Tony Drago on June 29, 2019, 12:04:09 PM: Profile Olympic with modified wing tips.
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Post by: afml on June 29, 2019, 05:10:15 PM: Scimitar by Allen Brickhaus
Could the car be a Crosley??
"Tight Lines!" H^^
Wes
Title: Re: What models are these?
Post by: John Hammonds on June 29, 2019, 06:42:46 PM: Not sure of the model but the car is a Morris Oxford. Produced late 1940's through to about 1954 ish. Morris Minor looks very similar but is much smaller.

TTFN
John.
Title: Re: What models are these?
Post by: Trostle on June 29, 2019, 06:45:34 PM: The airplane is definitely the Scimitar by Allen Brickhaus. Published in Model Airplane News, January 84. 52" span "for .35 to .40 engines.

Keith
Title: Re: What models are these?
Post by: proparc on June 29, 2019, 06:49:15 PM: Profile Stunt Machine. Or Silhavy Olympic.
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Post by: Trostle on June 29, 2019, 07:23:03 PM: Quote from: proparc on June 29, 2019, 06:49:15 PM
Profile Stunt Machine. Or Silhavy Olympic.

Silhavy Olympic??? Gialdini did the Olympic.

Maybe you did not see the previous post. The model in the pictures is definitely the Brickhaus Scimitar.

Keith
Title: Re: What models are these?
Post by: M Spencer on June 29, 2019, 08:55:15 PM: Id thoyt it was a Maurice Manure , but appears to be a morris oxford major .

A wonder how the poms won the bl**dy war .The Olde Atlanic 90 syspension was used in that weird atlantic thing. and Maserati's & jensens .
But Thats adford and Alder or whoever , rather than Lord stokes & comrades .
Title: Re: What models are these?
Post by: Brent Williams on June 29, 2019, 09:54:09 PM: As KT said, sure looks like a Scimitar.
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Post by: wwwarbird on June 29, 2019, 11:03:11 PM: The model appears to be a variation of the Nobler. ;D
Title: Re: What models are these?
Post by: GERALD WIMMER on June 30, 2019, 04:47:59 AM: Hello
Lots of answers but Keith and Brent were correct on the model airplane, its a Allen Brickhaus designed Scimitar from 1982, I read the original used a Testors 40 (a stock series 21 blackhead) but my brother Karl has a S.T 46 for his. It was designed as a windy weather practice model that would be rugged and simple with fuselage mounted gear . I think the original had a modified Geiseke Nobler foam wing but the plan shows a built up wing.

The car as John and Matt got correct is a Morris Oxford with flat head/side-valve engine and a column change 4 speed. Hard to see in the pictures but it is a much larger car then its much more common relative the Morris Minor and fits 6 people on its bench seats.
Pleasant to drive and very economic but very slow by today's standards, not that it matters much in New Zealand now, as the roads are congested in Auckland and speed limits low and fuel highly taxed, so in many ways it the vehicle for our times ! Added a pic of the inside

Regards Gerald
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Post by: Dwayne on June 30, 2019, 07:34:07 AM: Scimitar
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Post by: Doug Moisuk on June 30, 2019, 07:55:27 AM: Morris Minor. I had one of those. Great little car.