Since the North American offices have closed, we aren’t privy to the latest news from CMC. There are a few images floating about the upcoming CMC release, the 1:18 metal and opening Ferrari 250 LM. What we have is limited but the detail is not. As far as accuracy we’ll let associated press, the collector community chime in. Alternatives to CMC are the resin and sealed effort from Amalgam or semi-opening TOP Marques – did this one ever come to production?
M-277 – Ferrari 250 LM, 7th Le Mans 1968, #21, Piper/Attwood, Longnose
M-278 – Ferrari 250 LM, 24h Daytona 1966, #27,Piper/Attwood, Longnose
M-288 – Ferrari 250 GTO “30th Anniversary”
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“RON 54” Was owned & raced by Ron Fry from Bath UK, often saw him winning at Castle Coombe circuit in my youth.
They have made an amazingly BAD mistake…. Only 10 air intakes on the engine…should be 12. I am always amazed by some of the incredibly stupid mistakes CMC makes. The word “accuracy” is one they are completely unfamiliar with in any language.
The exploded view of the 250LM on the CMC website shows 2 banks of 6 injection trumpets for the model, unlikely they decided to snap 2 off for the Ron Fry model, more likely a poor image used on this site.
I spoke too soon, I was influenced a little by a well known Ferrari collector in Austria. He also should have known better. That said, still I admit jumping the gun and making a mistake/misstatement. This is what happens when I don’t spend the time doing a deeper dive – my own checking!!! I contacted CMC about the air intakes and received the following reply from Roland Neuffer, Product Manager:
“Dear Mr. Buck, Our model has 12 air intakes, just like the original. You just can`t see the rear 2 very well, as they are half hidden under a small sheet of tin plate.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best Regards
CMC GmbH & Co. KG
Classic Model Cars
Roland Neuffer
Product Manager”
You beat us to the source, we were going to forward an email this morning. Good to see they are on track. Good for CMC!
The answer seems to have been given without having had a good at the pictures, because on the pictures the two missing trumpets should be visible nonetheless.
What I saw on other pictures from the Techno Classica in Essen, where CMC was present with quite a number of samples of the 250 LM, the trumpets were missing on all models,
Someone who visited and asked about the missing parts and large panel gaps, got a reply from the CMC representatives that these were samples and that parts were simply missed out by the workplace, and that they would make sure that the final product would be correct.
CMC sometimes leaves out stuff that I think would be obvious from a few pictures, but leaving two of these parts out of the final product would seem incredibly stupid.
Oh, and the “M-277 – Ferrari 250 LM, 7th Le Mans 1968, #21, Piper/Attwood, Longnose” is cancelled, because CMC discovered that the rear of the car is different from the other 250 LM’s, which would make it unviable for the planned limited number of specimens.
CMC have posted A LOT of pictures of the finished model on facebook. In different guises too. One of them is of a limited edition of the chassis and the body separated, showing all the detail. One thing that drives me absolutely crazy on their last few Ferrari models are the incredibly shitty and unbelievable seatbelts. So they can make a multi piece metal windshield wiper with real rubber blade in it, but can’t make a realistic looking four point seat belt? WTF?
Photos can be found here:
https://www.modelcars24.de/allgemein/cmc-auf-der-techno-classica-2025/?v=5435c69ed3bc
It’s also clearly visible the “trumpets” on the top of the engine are 10 pcs. on all the prototypes, that concerns me.. I was really looking forward for this Ferrari since it’s one of my favourites, shame if they leave it like that, escpecially at this price..
It’s 12. Did you see the comment above, directly from CMC too?
I saw the comment from CMC, but I also saw the photos from Techno Classica, let’s hope they deliver, because from the outside I love the looks.
And on those photos it is easy to see that there are definitely SIX double carbs, which would mean 12 trumpets. You can clearly see where foremost two are covered, just like on the real thing.