Bill,
I just read your review of the Tamiya 1/20 scale Lotus 25, and I just don’t agree with you with your review opinions.
There was no seat belts, lap belts, shoulder belts, or any combination of them used in F1 cars during the 1962 season. Here is a picture of Jim Clark driving the Lotus 25, and a restored version. There are no seatbelts in the cockpit.
I built the kit and found the detail to be excellent for a kit molded in 1998, and is more then the equal of many of today’s race car kits.
I do agree with you that the mess protective screening for the fuel injection intakes molded in clear plastic isn’t up to today’s standards, but back in the 1998 era PE just didn’t exist, so it was this or nothing as colored plastic would have been worse.
Here’s my completed build of the Tamiya Kit.
Joel