Model Cars & their real counterparts: Hot Wheels Cunningham C4R

The first in a (hopefully) regular feature on model cars and the real vehicles they are based on - including some real rarities.
No 1: Hot Wheels Cunningham C4R...

...and the real thing, which originally raced in the early 1950s and is pictured here at Goodwood in the 90s:

I make no excuses for picking this little beauty as my first subject for this regular feature. It is a lovely model of the real car with great attention to detail, even down to those two blue stripes running the length of the car:

More soon!