Restoring a Budgie / Morestone No.7 Mercedes Benz, in the Esso Petrol Pump Series from 1956 until 1959, and later produced by Budgie until 1965
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I'm a Formula One fan, and this model immediately jumped out at me as soon as I knew of it's existence. Now it may not look like a typical F1 car, but this is a very famous Formula One racing car indeed. It's a streamlined version of the W196, as raced to World Championship victory by Juan Manuel Fangio in 1954 and 1955. So this model was a bit like Hot Wheels releasing a roughly 1/64 scale version of Lewis Hamilton's wheels.
It was streamlined for the fast race tracks with exceedingly long straights, such as Reims in France, Monza in Italy, and Silverstone in England.
As such I thought this would make a neat little five minute respray to spruce it up and add to my collection, but sure enough it wasn't that straightforward...
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