Comments (0) 上天賦予了他一對巧手，加上自己的不懈努力，終於完成了這些令人驚嘆的作品!
他就是來自法國的迷你賽車場景大師Jean-Claude Baudier。
Baudier 自幼喜歡賽車運動，尤其是家鄉舉世聞名的勒芒24小時耐力賽。他也喜歡收藏模型車，但由於不滿於單調的擺設，所以開始了自家製作的場景。
慢慢地他的作品為人知道和讚許，終于在1986年Baudier和其它8名成員成立了CHRONO 43工作室專門為客人製作賽車場景，他們的團隊已經累積了超過30年的賽車場景製作經驗，而且更出過一本專門講述他們製作過過程的場景書籍，在其中分享製作過程和經驗。
我覺得他的作品精細度比起很多手辦大師未必是最佳的，但是整體場景構思嚴謹，人物和車輛的配搭恰當，當中很多的細節肯定是參考了不少過往的Lemans歷史文獻，當然最重要的是Baudier先生那與眾不同的創作靈感，Bravo!
前幾天有人在香港機場拍到了這個震撼的場面，運輸車上面赫然承載的竟然是全球只剩下3台60年代火紅的法拉利戰車330 P4!!!
但是仔細觀看之下，總覺得神韻方面缺少了些什麼，不太可能是底盤為0856 (P4, 67 Lemans #24)/0858 (p4, 67 Lemans #21)/0860 (P4, 67 Lemans #19)/的3台真品。而且價值連城的330 P4 (應該過億港幣) 不可能就這麼任由一台普通運輸車加上沒有保安的情況下走在公路上。
後來有朋友指出，這個很可能又是另一台330 P4的Replicas複製車。
真相如何，拭目以待!
All of the P4s built are accounted for.
By chassis number:
0846 the only P3/4 was originally built early in 1966 as a P3 by Ferrari. It was modified in December 1966 to accept a P4 engine and it’s wheelbase was decreased P3 2412mm to P4 2400mm. It retained its P3 nose and chassis and vestigial P3 engine mounts becoming a P 3/4. This vehicle was damaged in an accident at Le Mans and was discarded by Ferrari.
Recently, many components of the original P3/4 0846 including it’s original P 3/4 chassis have resurfaced in the possession of exotic car collector and enthusiast James Glickenhaus, a former movie director and stock exchange magnate. Although both he and David Piper (from whom he acquired the car) thought it one of three replica P4 chassis constructed with the blessing of Enzo Ferrari in the mid 70ies from Factory P4 Chassis Blueprints given to David Piper by Enzo Ferrari, a recent “Death Bed Statement” of Tom Meade’s confirms that Tom Meade bought, Directly From Enzo Ferrari, in the early 70ies, Ferrari P 3/4 0846’s original fire damaged chassis which had been put in the Ferrari Factory Scrap Yard after 0846’s accident at Le Mans in 1967 and later sold 0846’s original P 3/4 chassis to the original chassis maker who repaired and sold it, unbenounced to David Piper, who thought the original chassis maker was making three new P4 Chassis from the original P4 chassis blueprints Enzo Ferrari gave to him. 0846’s Original P3/4 Chassis is different from, and can not be made from P4 Blueprints.
Nearly all of the tube frame chassis and other components from the original wrecked P3/4 0846 are part the car owned by James Glickenhaus today. This discovery has stirred debate. The Ferrari Market Letter recently reported: “While Ferrari insists that 0846 was scrapped and is no more, a car exists with strong claims to be the resurrection of that car.” Its tube frame chassis appears to be a P3 Chassis modified to hold a P4 engine, as was the case with 0846 exclusively, and the damage from two contemporary racing accidents appears in the frame as well. The car’s transmission, engine heads, and steering rack also include the correct Le Mans scrutineering marks, linking them to P3 0846 and P3/4 0846 of 1966 and 1967. P3/4 0846 was road tested by Car and Driver magazine.
Since 2002 Ferrari S.p.A. has published the fact on their official web site Ferrari.com in the owners section, in Ferrari S.p.A’s sole discretion, that Ferrari P 3/4 Chassis 0846 is owned by James Glickenhaus since July 2000, when he bought it from David Piper. The legal identity of this particular car that James Glickenhaus has owned since July 2000 as published by Ferrari S.p.A. on their copyrighted web site was established when James Glickenhaus informed Ferrari S.p.A. that he was registering this car as 1967 Ferrari 330 P4 Chassis 0846 with US Motor Vehicle Authorities in 2000 and if Ferrari believed this was not true that they had the duty to act within a two year period which they did not. “The common law doctrine of estoppel by acquiescence is applied when one party gives legal notice to a second party of a fact or claim, and the second party fails to challenge or refute that claim within a reasonable time. The second party is said to have acquiesced to the claim, and is estopped from later challenging it, or making a counterclaim. The doctrine is similar to, and often applied with, estoppel by laches.”
- 0856 remains in its original state and is owned by Lawrence Stroll
- 0858 was converted into a 350 Can-Am by Ferrari but is now fitted with a replica P4 Coupe body.
- 0860 was also converted by Ferrari to a 350 Can-Am but is presently wearing a replica P4 Spyder body and is in a French automobile museumThe Ferrari 330 P4 made a notable appearance in the video game Forza Motorsport 2. The P4 in Forza Motorsport 3 is patterned on P3/4 0846 which James Glickenhaus made available to Microsoft and James Glickenhaus is credited by Microsoft in Forza Motorsport for making his P3/4 0846 available to them for this purpose. The P4 also appears in the video game Gran Turismo 5, as one of the most expensive 20 million classics on the game.
P4 Replicas
Due to the great fame and sleek appearance of the original design, more than a hundred P4 replicas of various design have been built. A high-quality P4 replica built with genuine Ferrari engine (e.g., a 400i V12) may command as much as $200,000, but simpler ones (often with Rover engines and Renault drive-trains) fetch around $50,000.
There have also been replica chassis built:
- 0900 was a continuation commissioned and currently owned by David Piper
- 0900a is another currently unfinished continuation also owned by Piper
- 0900b is a third continuation, but is still under construction. Its frame was made in the 2000s by Piper for an American customer.
Update: Aug 2, 2015
在最近的一次SMD，這台330P4 Kit Car的車身號碼變成了1967年勒芒第二位的21號!
Ferrari 330 P4, #21, 2nd place, 1967 24 Hours of LeMans, Ludovico Scarfiotti, Mike Parkes
Update: Feb 21, 2016
今天又有網友拍到了這個330P4。
兩個都是曾經如日方中的車中之神，當Schumacher駕駛著Fangio當年50年代橫掃千軍的W196R Streamliner時，想必他一定正在跟Fangio的靈魂跨時空切磋著。
旁邊的那台W196R Monoposto真車更是如此漂亮，比CMC那個老掉牙的模具精細得多了! 真是的，都十幾年了，這麼出名的歷史名車，CMC也不考慮更新一下Monoposto的細節，太令人失望了，哎…
最近在MC論壇裡看到了一位兄弟(姚龑)的作品，工具其實很簡單，iPhone、打燈再加後期PS。雖然整體比較業余，但是還是能凸顯了攝影者與眾不同的品味。
說實在的，我第一次看到的時候，真的感到挺震撼和有感覺的，相片人人都會拍，但是能夠打動人心的為數不多。
最巧的是後來竟然在一個20幾人的微信車模組別裡又碰到了他，這個圈子可真小啊，哈哈。
今天在翻看車模目錄時發現Autoart將會推出一系列以Porsche 962C為主的戰車。當中最令人矚目的是87年Le Mans的17號Rothsmans冠軍車(編號為88770 ALT)，但隨之而來的是失望，取消的原因有點令人摸不著頭腦。
6年前在日本的靜岡模型展上更曾經出現過88871的樣板。
我猜應該是Spark已經生產過此車(編號為18LM87) Porsche 962 C, No.17 Le Mans Winner 1987 Hans-Joachim Stuck – Derek Bell – Al Holbert﹔另外就是如何妥當處理好Rothsmans煙草拉花的麻煩問題。
基於以上兩個考慮因素，所以AA干脆直接打消了整個生產1987年Le Mans冠軍車的念頭。
有人曾說過沒有夢想的人生就如失去靈魂的軀殼，這位極富天賦的小伙子再次證明了這點，實現理想全因當初兒時對製作汽車模型的Passion!
今天中午吃飯的時候在商場的停車場見到這兩台奔馬，直覺告訴我這對應該是屬於一對情侶的愛駒。如果沒猜錯開篷360應該是屬於一位女士的，而那個誇張的紅圈加碳纖車頂的最新458則是她另一半的寶貝。
今天打球的時候發現這筒球竟然是100號，經常看到的則是1、2、3號，這個號碼的確很特別，後來發現這個特別版原來是澳洲公開賽專用的網球編號，今年更加是Wilson一百週年紀念，原來如此!
