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[gazza]

[slots]

Interesting article. Shame it didn't work as it would have been fun to watch.

[sunbeammadd]

Thanks for the article. I've still got my Scalextric model of the 6 wheel March from when I was a kid. It's great to see the real car.

[Eno the Wonderdog]

Do you reckon that this is gonna be the next Fly shape??

[smallnails]

Arrgh imagine all the little stubs in the front!!!

Nightmare matierial!!

[kalbfellp]

Here is a version I built some years ago for the Marconi Proxy race.





Phil

[gazza]

[Chewycat]

Long live the P34 one of the most beautiful race cars ever I have always been facinated by any six wheelers As soon as I think I can fool the wife my 5 yo son is going to get a rc model I think my son might be waiting awhile

[gazza]

[gazza]

These were the first batch from SCX in 1977









This one re released in 2000 in the "Vintage" box



This one in 2001 by Altaya SCX's tart up branch



And this one in 2003



So we should be ready for a re re re release soon

[Ontheflipside]

[Vinno]

I've always wanted a Tyrrell, I hoped SCX may do it again so I could get one.

[kalbfellp]

I just remembered that I have two chassis's to build for a couple of Matchbox kits. I did say I would build one for a Forum member a long time ago,he must have forgotten. But we will let sleeping DOG lie.

[Eno the Wonderdog]

I still have the car Phil..

..not the type to nag.

[gazza]

Derek Gardner 1931-2011

Six-wheel pioneer has died, aged 79.

14th January 2011



Derek Gardner alongside Ken Tyrrell, with driver Patrick Depailler sat in his amazing P34.

Derek Gardner, the racing car designer best known for creating the six-wheeled Tyrrell P34, has died aged 79. The gifted engineer was catapulted into Formula 1 while working on advanced transmissions for Harry Ferguson Research, where he helped to develop four-wheel-drive systems for Matra in 1969.

It was here that Gardner first met F1 team boss Ken Tyrrell the following year. Tyrrell invited Gardner to work on the Matra V12-powered Tyrrell 001 F1 car, which he developed very quickly. The car made its racing debut at the 1970 Canadian Grand Prix.

Jackie Stewart took 001 to pole position but failed to finish when a stub axle broke. It was for the 1971 season that Gardner created his most successful car. The Tyrrell 003 took Stewart to his second Drivers’ Championship and Tyrrell to its first Constructors’ title. A third Drivers’ victory followed for Stewart in 1973.
The six-wheeled Tyrrell P34 arrived in 1976 – with four small front wheels to decrease frontal area without compromising grip – and is certainly Gardner’s best-known legacy. It wasn’t beautiful, and nor was it a championship-winner, yet the P34 remains iconic.

It debuted at the Spanish GP in 1976, and was quick from the word go. But that was a brief flash of pace. Jody Scheckter and Patrick Depailler (above) took the P34 to a memorable one-two in that year’s Swedish Grand Prix, even though the South African described the car as a ‘piece of junk’. But Gardner was becoming disillusioned with F1, and left the sport during 1976.

Even so, he remained a keen engineer and designer until retirement, producing vehicles as diverse as boats and microlights.

From Octane magazine

[gazza]

[John G]

Here's a great clip

[TJ_Tas]

There was also a 6 wheel Williams. I don't think it ever raced but i remember seeing photos of it at the time (late 70's- early 80's). It was a design similar to to the March with 4 small wheels at the rear, I can't remember the model number but it looked very similar to the FW07.

I had one of the 6 wheel March's from scalextric in the 70's. This was before all of the modern politically correct bullshit infected models. It was resplendent in Rothmans livery.

TJ

[John G]

This one?
http://i392.photobuc...iams00046fd.jpg

[TJ_Tas]

Yup... thats the one!.

That would make a good scratch building project.