1961 FERRARI 250 SWB, 1:18 SCALE MODEL BY CMC MODELS From t...

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£240

1961 FERRARI 250 SWB, 1:18 SCALE MODEL BY CMC MODELS

From the mid-50's to the early 60's, the 250 GT Berlinetta dominated GT racing. The short wheel base version was known as "passo corto" or "SWB". Between 1959 till 1962, some 165 cars were made of the short wheel base model.

Features of the CMC model include:

- Hand-assembled with 1,141 parts
- Precisely scaled car body
- Metal front / rear bumpers chromed to a gloss finish
- Hinged engine-hood with an adjustable bracket
- Fantastic miniature of the twelve-cylinder V-engine with all the ancillaries, pipelines and cabling
- Riveted metal lining on the sill
- Masterly crafted spoke wheels with aluminium-rims, stainless-steel spokes wired by hand, air-valve fitted into the rim
- Screwable Borrani wheel nuts enable you to remove / fasten the wheels
- Filigree-designed metal wipers equipped with rubber blades
- Padded bucket seats and interior covered with finest leather
- True-to-the-original dashboard complete with all instruments and control gadgets
- Authentically replicated Nardi three-spoke steering wheel in wood-like finish
- Carpeted passenger compartment and trunk floor
- Removable spare wheel fastened by a toggle screw in the trunk
- All windows framed in metal
- Flip-on tank cap
- Exact replication of the underbody and the steel tube frame
- Front-wheel suspension with triangular wishbone, coil spring and shock-absorbers, all made in metal
- Rear-wheel suspension on rigid axle with lengthwise compound springs, shock-absorbers, and double-sided arranged trailing links
- True-to-the-original replication of the exhaust pipes and its chromed metal end
- Brake- and fuel pipes, complete with filter, electric fuel pump, hand brake ropes etc.

This highly detailed example has been opened only for photography, and is complete with relevant packaging, cards, instructions and cloth.