March 731 Holland 1973 #18 Purley

March 731 Holland 1973 #18 Purley by SMTS

These kits are all based on the same core parts and offer builders the opportunity to create the cars driven by some of the brightest young hopes in F1 during the early 1970s, particularly from a British point of view. The Hunt car was entered by Hesketh and the kit offers two very different liveries, the fine pinstriped car as seen in the British Grand Prix where Hunt finished fourth and the US Grand Prix where Hunt was second overall. Roger Williamson made his last GP start in Holland, Tom Wheatcroft’s protege being killed at Zandvoort where his friend David Purley tried in vain to save him. Jarier ran a restricted F1 programme in 1973 and didn’t enjoy great success, though he did win the F2 title in some style and Mike Beuttler’s effort was pretty much a self run machine in the best traditions of the keen amateur, again with little success. SMTS don’t state a race for this version but we think that it’s from the Spanish GP. With a little tweeking and painting the airbox yellow rather than dark blue, it could also be made as a number of later season options. The components in all of the kits are cleanly cast and look as if they’ll go together well. There is a modest amount of photo-etch included and the decals for all kits are clearly printed and where we have photos they look to be accurate. Welcome kits of classic F1 subjects.