SHORTNOSE D-TYPE Current Project

Here's one I'm working on right now, well, on and off anyway. It started off as a Minialuxe D-Type from the early sixties. Minialuxe was a French company who produced mostly 1/43 plastic vehicles, similar to Norev. They made a few 1/32 cars, of which this was one, together with a Mercedes and a Gordini. MRRC distributed them as slot car shells, and they could be seen featured in some of their magazine ads from around that time. Over the years these shells become badly warped, and this one was no exception. I tried to have a go at one before but it failed when the paint stripper I was using melted the plastic. See here:
http://slottysalad.blogspot.com/2009/04/minialuxe-d-type.html
I originally gave this shell to Charles Lawrence out in Seattle, but he kindly returned it when I asked him if I could have a go at making something decent of it.
I was going to just straighten out the shell,but I think I've gone a little bit further than that now! It'll be far from perfect in the end, but much better than the sorry state it was in. I first straightened it out as much as possible using steam, then made cuts in the body to straighten it out further. I then removed the "hump" from behind the drivers' seat, as it wasn't in line, and also filled in the cockpit area because that needed to be redone too. There's not going to be much left of the original Minialuxe when I'm finished I think...