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Those Marvelous Merit Models

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The whole range of the Merit 1:24-scale plastic kit assembled and painted in period: mid-Fifties. Front line: British F1 and the Jaguar D-Type. Mid row: Italian F1 and Grand Prix racers and the Lotus 11. Rear row: French racers, Mercedes W196, Cooper 500 MkIX and Aston Martin DB3S.

Text, photos and models by Aldo Zana

From the VeloceToday Archives, March, 2019

It was hard times in the second half of the Fifties for European kids in love with Formula One and longing to become part of its world by collecting and playing with model racers.

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Merit Kits and the Missing BlueBird

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We got a lot of comments on the recent Merit Kit story by Aldo Zana. A lot. For years, your Editor, holed up in a very northern Minnesota town in the 1950s, thought he was the only guy in the world who knew about Merit kits. [Read more…] about Merit Kits and the Missing BlueBird

Merit 1:24 Scale Model Kits

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The whole range of the Merit 1:24-scale plastic kit assembled and painted in period: mid-Fifties. Front line: British F1 and the Jaguar D-Type. Mid row: Italian F1 and Grand Prix racers and the Lotus 11. Rear row: French racers, Mercedes W196, Cooper 500 MkIX and Aston Martin DB3S.

Text, photos and models by Aldo Zana

It was hard times in the second half of the Fifties for European kids in love with Formula One and longing to become part of its world by collecting and playing with model racers. [Read more…] about Merit 1:24 Scale Model Kits

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