MATCHBOX Superfast restoration: 29D Racing Mini
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
- Restoring a Lesney Matchbox No. 29D Racing Mini, in the Superfast range from 1970 until 1976 and in the Two Pack line until 1981.
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The 29D Racing Mini debuted in 1970 having been promoted earlier that year as a more conventional rally spec Mini in a collectors catalogue. From that early design it was then squashed and widened to allow it to roll better along the play tracks being released at the time. A pre-production example also shows the Mini with door handles, hinges and shut lines, but these were dropped in favour of smooth sides to aid decal application. It had a long life in production, lasting six years in the Superfast series and a further five featuring in the Two Pack line.
My Racing Mini had been painted over in red. I'm not sure if the side decals remained. Some of that paint had spilled over onto the windows, base and wheels. The wheels were also bent and the windscreen peppered with deep scratches. I spent an age trying to rectify the window piece. I sourced some reproduction decals and tried to match the original paint shade using a variety of Tamiya clear coats.
The casting is based on a Mark 2 Mini from 1969. The Mark 2 had replaced the original 1959 Sir Alec Issigonis design, but saw evolution rather than wholesale changes. In fact, that methodology continued for the 41 years of Mini production. Little changed during that span, aside for some minor exterior detailing and creature comforts. Such was the popularity of the Mini, it managed to outlast it's supposed successor, the 1980 to 1998 Austin Mini-Metro.
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Nice restoration, details and paint job 👌 👍
Nice restoration, it's ready to race again.
great turnaround jason
Great work as always.
Great paint , your finish is amazing .
Good show my friend.
Mike
I had the little mini many years ago and pleased to see it again 😀 the original orange red colour would have gone better with the decale but the red looks nice .
Super cool la mini😊
I love this casting, you did a great job there Jason.
Superb once again Jason! Great job...
"Loosely based on a Mini", lol. Brutally honest. Nice job. I enjoy your streamlined videos. Good job squeezing in so much history!
Thanks! I try to make videos that I personally would want to watch back - something I can enjoy with a cup of coffee when I get a chance to sit down for 10 minutes!
Awesome job Jason!
Super pro finish on this Jason Top Marks Sir!
Nice project!
Great job 👍
Great job as always Jason! I like your different paint layers!
Great job as always Jason. If memory serves me right the 29 decals were originally stickers. Why not try copying the waterslides on to sticky paper etc sometime. Anyway keep er lit ya boy ye!
Nice. Matchbox. Superfast. Mini
Nice. Job
Great work. Will have to get those decals....but not for this model
You forgot the official Mr. Bean pad lock!
LOL!
I had one of those! 🆒🆒🆒🆙🆙🆙
looks great again, the red-brown is pretty deep.. :) well, if it's a racer the windscreen ought to take some hits methinks. at least it wasn't a condor or somesuch... would have barely fit through the front window. XD
I read somewhere that BMC mever made any money on the minis, pricing them so low they always had to lose money. Ford even offered them to up the price tags on the base Popular/Anglia so BMC could tag their Minis in an area where they would make money from, but BMC declined.
Not sure if this is true, but considering what every boss did with their part of the Great British Leyland(tm) I deem this possible. Even Alec Issigonis is said to turn an uptight snob after being Lorded by The Queen... as if a Sir never listens to anyone?
Yes as I understand it the Mini was a loss leader for BMC though I think it was Ford who unravelled it by purchasing a Mini and dismantling it piece by piece to work out where the savings were being made!
@@DieCastRestos Probably with the rubber torsion springs. or later the "Whiskey-Soda-Suspension". XD the Anglia wouldn't have worked with rubber-torsion, I guess, the Mini was more compact and lightweight. and powerful enough to win the Mone Carlo three times in a row...
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I don't think Lesney had 'an orange / bronze clear coat' it was just their well used red clear coat sent through the paint nozzles a tad faster than a Porsche 910, Turbo Fury, Jag E Type, Ford GT40 and a few others with the same combination (or silver basecoat on some) without doubt their most widely used colour combo given the variation they could apply to one or the other or both somewhere around metallic red would emerge glistening like a gemstone before being dropped in a box at 3 per second.
Great job 👍