Eagle Book of Model Cars is a book dedicated to showing you in great detail how to build
7 model cars. Some are propeller driven, others powered by Jetex model jet motors.
The top of the range models even have glow-plug motors. Pages 2 and 3 show photographs of
completed models. The outer back cover has a complete list of materials needed to build the
models.
Original Price : 8s 6d (42½p)
Published by : Longacre Press in 1961
Edited by : Ray Malmström
Dimensions : 21cm x 26.5cm with 64 pages.
Selected highlights:
- A real old-timer: the 1902 Cadillac
- Watch your fingers when firing up the glow-plug motors !
- The model you have waited for: Donald Campell's Bluebird
| CONTENTS | ||
|---|---|---|
| Chapter 1 | MODEL MOTORING | Page 4 |
| 2 | MATERIALS | 6 |
| 3 | TOOLS | 8 |
| 4 | THE SILVER STREAK | 10 |
| SUGGESTIONS PAGE | 15 | |
| 5 | THE SATYR | 16 |
| 6 | 'HORSE POWER' FOR YOUR CARS | 22 |
| 7 | THE TOPSY | 26 |
| 8 | 1902 CADILLAC | 32 |
| SKETCH PAGES | 38 | |
| 9 | THE RUNABOUT | 40 |
| MODEL CAR RUNNING | 46 | |
| PHOTOPAGE | 47 | |
| 10 | THE MG-A | 48 |
| 11 | THE BLUEBIRD | 55 |
| 12 | GOING AHEAD | 63 |
| ACTION PAGE | 64 | |