Skin and bik by The Boxman ([url]boxmanmods.blogspot.com[/url])Know as "The Fastest Mini in Australia", the Brian Foley Broadspeed GTS was the most successful sports racing closed car during the 1966-67 Bathurst season. Built by Brian Foley and Laurie Stewart, the Australian Broadspeed came to life when Foley - a racer and Mini salesman - met Ralph Broad and an interest to export Mini Broadspeeds to Australia emerged. But later they decided that it would be cheaper to build the car in Australia, and so (although not the success they had hoped) 3 GTs and one GTS were built. Foley and Stewart raced the GTS extensively, being officially timed at the 1967 Bathurst Easter meeting at 127.84mph (204.5km/h). The car has been under restoration for a while, in the hands of a new owner, and you can find more about it here: [url]http://maximummini.blogspot.com/2013/02/restoring-multi-colour-broadspeed-gts.html[/url].I started painting the car using pictures I found mostly in maximummini.blogspot.com (of the Foley's GTS and a replica of it) believing it to be how it looked when it was racing in Bathurst in the late 60's. Only when I had finished the work I found pictures from the actual races, which were different in several aspects from what I painted. If I understand it correctly, it was later painted in several other colors for other races and, sometime in the 80's or 90's, repainted to the original green with said slightly different decals. Either way, here you can find both skins - from the 1967 Australian Championship and from recent years - choose which ever you prefer or even both. One little snag, I don't understand why, is that when I tried to build the broadspeed_tex.gtl, with correct numbers, it always crashed, so I had no choice but to get one of the original skins and just replace the different textures. I think they can still coexist, tough... I think...V1.01: Updated the icons with photographs of the car, since no one uses biks anymore, and removed the extra headlamps.
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