Gilles Villeneuve died 30 years ago

[BlacqueJacques]

This makes me smile, not only because its nice to see Jaques in his fathers car... When I see this vid I try to imagine how Gilles himself would have driven that car in such a event... For sure the way he raced, always on the edge and risking everything

Post the link please so I can post on my Facebook page, thanks.

 

[Hun200kmh]

PS - I got to say that I have and cherish a bburago 126CK (the car used at that Monte Carlo victory) 1:24 scale, just like this one:

... and two like this one, one assembled with #12, one still in the box (I wanted to have the #11 and the #12). I guess I'll make another #12 for me and offer the first (all dusty and all) to my son

Sorry to revive this thread, but all this recent talk about Villeneuve made me go and get from a long lost dusty shelf the TAMIYA box with the still-to-be-built model, and made me sort out a deal with my son, allowing him a very enjoyable summer project. To replicate what I did when I was his age (some 30 years ago ).

So, we finally opened the box:

My son got a little worried at the "delicacy" of his task, and with lots of doubts on some specifics, so I asked my older sister (it's at her home my old model is, partially dismantled and in need of a full restoration too) to take some close up pictures of specific parts of the first car.

She just sent them to me and I got all nostalgic looking at what I did somewhere in the eighties. I'm glad I made it the #12 car and my own summer project will be, honoring Gilles again, to restore that model.

Here the pictures I got today of my old, dusty, model:

So, with my son building the second model 30 years later, Gilles' legacy lives on

 

[Bye Ya]