Ron Bell Posted December 2, 2025 Report Posted December 2, 2025 I picked this up at Scale Model World. It's the 1980 release of the original 1971 kit. The Prince Henry has been called the first sports car as it was developed for a race in Germany sponsored by a Prince Henry. It proved to be so reliable with for the day excellent performance that Vauxhall decided to make a commercial version of it. The kit has all the limitations of a 70's kit, but went together surprisingly well. It's done almost OOTB here but I suppose if you wanted to you could add an engine as the chassis is pretty well detailed and could accept one relatively easily. The 'almost' reflects the fact that in all those years it sat on a shelf or was carted around by some vender only one small part, a headlight lens, got lost despite the box have two holes in the top. I replaced both headlights' lenses with ones made from clear acetate.
Dick Montgomery Posted December 2, 2025 Report Posted December 2, 2025 An interesting purchase.......a blast from the past and those "aged" kits are very enjoyable to assemble. Well done!
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