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Early Sports Car - 1912 Mercer Raceabout
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Made with the classic 395 Rolls Royce kit with a few technic bits for the working steering.
About this creation
About 100 years ago someone had the bright idea of slotting their biggest engine in their shortest chassis and fitting the lightest possible bodywork. Sports car fans have been rejoicing ever since. This is my humble homage to that genius.



Back in the day, this baby was capable of more than 70 mph, which must have been entertaining with rod operated brakes on the rear wheels only ...



This is the grandaddy of all those Lamborghinis, Ferraris, Lotuses etc.



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Lola TruckDriver
  January 22, 2011
Who else on earth still owns them? Maybe I should post my 391-turned "Fabuland Coupe De Ville" that I build for the daughters... Very nice work!
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Nick Barrett
  January 8, 2011
Quoting Tom Simon You do like to cover a wide variety of subjects. Nicely done.
Hi Tom. Thanks for stopping by. I'll be re-visiting this particular subject soon.
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Tom Simon
  January 8, 2011
You do like to cover a wide variety of subjects. Nicely done.
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Anthony Dunne
  May 21, 2010
Nice little classic car. I just purchased the 1913 Cadillac set 390. I hope that I can get a set of white spoked wheels like yours someday. Cool little build! Keep building! -Anthony Dunne
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Henrik Hoexbroe
  May 18, 2010
A simple, but functional model. Just like the original!
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Fred Ottens
  April 22, 2010
Nice model, and very nice wheels indeed !!
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Rolands Kirpis
  February 18, 2010
Yea.. classics never die, it just gets better and better. Nice work!!
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Dan the Man
  February 17, 2010
Nice design, perfect wheels for the car :)
  
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