Porsche 962C: Overview

A paint malfunction at the last minute on the Fiat 500 has me upset, so what better than a Model Factory Hiro kit to get over it! 

 

 

Also a FaceTheBook group is running a Porsche challenge build, with the deadline to finish being 9/11 (get it? 911? haha, Yeah, me neither.) which gives me plenty of time to tackle one of these beasts. I'll be going for the 1986 Le Mans winner as piloted by Derek Bell, Hans Stuck and Al Holbert.

 

 

The 962C benefits from a monocoque, meaning the rat's nest of flexible little tubes as found in the 908/03 and 917 is not present. However that doesn't mean nothing bent, starting with the window frames in the doors. Some gentle massaging has got the bent doors as well as the floor pan and other seemingly rigid items more or less straight. 

I've always wanted a 962 to go with Tamiya's lovely 956, but sadly neither Tamiya nor Hasegawa offers a kit with engine. So MFH it is. 

Including the Dauer and TWR variants, the 956 and 962 won 9 times over 15 years at Le Mans, starting in 1982 and ending in 1997. Quite the record; and the platform scored many more WSC wins in the same period under a number of badges.

Next to the grocery store to pick up some steel wool or Brillo pads, as there are no resin bits in this baby. The kit as delivered weighs 1163 grams with packaging; I'll report back on the weight of the completed kit as it isn't going to be a flyweight. Stay tuned!