8/28/08 UPDATE: America's first Grand Prix World Champion, Phil Hill passed away this morning due to complications from Parkinson's Disease.
In addition to winning
the 1961 Formula One World Championship, Phil was one of the great
sports car drivers of his era, scored 3 victories each in the
24 Hours of LeMans and the 12 Hours of Sebring. All for Ferrari.
Later, Phil was one of the lead drivers in the early Ford GT program
and scored major victories for Chaparral in Can Am and World Championship
sports car races.
After retiring as a driver, Phil became a familiar figure at Vintage and Historic events in the US and around the world, slowed only in recent years by his Parkinson's.
Over the years, TMC was honored to host several autograph sessions with Phil at Road America, Watkins Glen, Sebring and other locations around the country. It was my great honor to be seated next to Phil at a banquet honoring Jim Hall at the dedication of the Chaparral Museum in Midland, Texas a few years ago and will never forget Phil extending a hand from his car to say good bye at Road America two years ago.
A sad day. Phil Hill was a wonderful man and a great Champion. He will be missed.
- PZ
CAN AM DVD UPDATE: BOTH TITLES SHIPPING NOW!
I'm pleased to report that BOTH new DVDs
on the Can Am are now in stock.
Our shipment of the long-awaited DVD 'Can Am - The Speed Odyssey' arrived Thursday (note Jeff holding a copy of the August 14, 2008 USA Today as 'Proof of Life' ). 'Can Am Thunder' arrived from Duke Video on Friday, August 15.
It will take a few days to process all your advance orders Shipping began on Monday, August 18.
If you placed an advance order and need to change your address or credit card information, please do it asap. Or, if you have ordered one title and would like to add the other, call TMC at 800.722.8630 or 630.515.1440 or drop us an email.
If you're leaving new credit card information, you can use our 'old' Secure Order Form.
PLEASE TELL US THAT YOU ARE UPDATING AN EXISTING ORDER SO WE DON'T DUPLICATE THE SHIPMENT!
We have screened BOTH these programs and I can honestly say that there is very little (if any) duplication and, in fact, the two programs compliment each other nicely:
- 'Can Am - The Speed Odyssey' is SOLD OUT / DISCONTINUED.
- 'Can Am Thunder' is priced at $29.95 and uses period and modern day race footage along with commentary by Can Am guru Pete Lyons, Shadow and Ti22 Designer Peter Bryant and interviews with all the living Can Am Champions (Surtees, Follmer, Oliver), Jim Hall and Vic Elford. 'Thunder' runs 110 minutes - plus 40 minutes of extensive interviews with Lyons and Bryant that are included in the disc's 'Special Features'.
You can click on the titles to order.
We highly recommend both programs for those of you who are Can Am 'junkies' like I am.
Hopefully, this is the month we can end all the 'where is it?' inquiries and start reliving those glorious days of unlimited sports car racing.
8/18/08 UPDATE: Now that the two new
DVDs on the Can-Am have been released, we thought it would be
appropriate to set up a new CAN-AM PAGE, listing the numerous items in our current
inventory that relate to that classic era. Click on the banner
above.
8/13/08 UPDATE: Three great new books will be unveiled by David Bull Publishing at Monterey this weekend. They are:
'Monocoques & Ground Effects: The World Manufacturers and Sports Car Championships in Photographs, 1982 - 1992' by Janos Wimpffen -- The fourth and final release in Wimpffen's highly regarded series of photo histories of world class sports car racing picks up where Spyders and Silhouettes leaves off. The Group C era was one of the strongest decades in the history of sports car racing. Porsche, Mercedes, Jaguar and Peugeot introduced new techniques in chassis construction, aerodynamics and engine management systems. This 420 page year by year account of the Group C era contains over 400 photos - personally selected by Janos Wimpffen - covering championship races at LeMans, Daytona, Monza, the Nurburgring and other venues. $149.95 plus shipping.
'Portraits' by Jesse Alexander -- A portfolio of black & white and color photo studies of some of the sport's legendary figures from the archives of Jesse Alexander. Subjects include Juan Manuel Fangio, Stirling Moss, Jim Clark (Jesse's haunting shot of Clark at Spa graces the dust jacket), Enzo Ferrari, Roger Penske, Pedro Rodriguez, Ken Miles, Mario Andreti, Graham Hill, Phil Hill, Bruce McLaren, Peter Revson and Carroll Shelby. A grand total of 81 Alexander photos grace this 96 page hard cover collection. $75.00 plus shipping.
'Shelby Cars in Detail: Cars of the Shelby American Collection' by Frank Barrett, Photos by Boyd Jaynes, Foreword by Carroll Shelby -- This 272 page slipcased tribute to the cars of the Shelby American Collection features stunning original studio photographs by Boyd Jaynes and an authoritative text by automotive historian Frank Barrett. The book contains 156 color photos featuring a cross section of cars from the Collection, including the AC Ace Bristol (the predecessor to Shelby's iconic Cobra roadster), Shelby GT350s, Ford GT40s, 289 and 427 Cobra roadsters, Cobra Daytona Coupes and other pieces from the 'official' Shelby museum. $149.95 plus shipping.
Click on the titles or cover art to order.
We should have stock in all three by late September. Reserve now!
8/12/08 UPDATE: As we await the arrival
of two other great DVDs later this week, the 2008
Isle of Man TT Review is now in stock. ($34.95)
There is no challenge on Earth like the Isle of Man TT, the world-famous 37 3/4-mile circuit attracting the best road racers and biggest motorcycle manufacturers. With speeds approaching 200mph, the riders are just inches from walls and hedges as they flash along roads normally used by Manx residents for their everyday business. Through towns, villages, glens and spectacular mountain scenery the dramatic racing unfolds in a two-week festival of speed.
This review brings you every vital moment from all nine races, with aerial footage, on-board cameras, curb cams, interviews, on-screen graphics and more delivering the ultimate look back at some of the closest and fastest racing you will see anywhere.
This incredible two-disc review (4+ hours!) features stunning action footage from every single race, with the best camera angles, informed commentary and revealing interviews ensuring you don't miss anything.
Click on the image above to order.
8/1/08 UPDATE: Due in next week, 'The Complete Book of Formula One - 2nd Edition' by Simon Arron & Mark Hughes is a year-by-year account of the cars, drivers and races from 1950 to the present that provides a superior one stop reference for the racing enthusiast!
This impressive 504 page history of Grand Prix racing features photographs (over 4000 total) of every car and driver that competed in the modern day Formula One World Championship from 1950 through the 2007 season.
A massive undertaking, this is the most comprehensive photo book on Formula One ever published. Produced with the exclusive co-opertion of the Haymarket LAT Archive, which boasts more than nine million motor racing images in it's library.
$60.00 plus shipping (this thing weighs about 9 pounds!). Click HERE to order!
7/30/08 UPDATE: Our initial shipment of 'McLaren: The Cars 1964-2008' arrived this afternoon. Advance orders will begin shiping on Thursday. Click HERE to reserve your copy.
Another interesting new book crossed our desk this morning: 'Motor Movies - The Posters' assembled by Paul Veysey is a large format 224 page tribute to the poster artwork of films on motoring and motor racing. Many, if not most of the 250 posters featured in this book are European or foreign examples (the book was published in the UK) but this is an excellent reference for those of us who collect (or simply admire) original theatre posters. The book also provides and interesting time line for the evolution of marketing and product placement from the early days of cinema to the highly commercial era we're in today. In any case, it's a colorful, fun art book you should have if you're interested in cars in film. $69.95. Order HERE.
Will 'Can Am - The Speed Odyssey' finally make an appearance? The latest information is posted above.
7/29/08 UPDATE: Some new 1/18 scale models from Auto Art are on their way to us this week. Click on the images for additional information.
7/28/08 UPDATE: The 1/18 scale Hot Wheels
late season 'cherry red' version of Kimi Raikkonen's 2007 World
Championship winning Ferrari F2007 is now available for $79.95
plus shipping. Click HERE to order.
7/16/08 UPDATE: As we pack for Elkhart Lake, we are also trying to arrange for advance or prototype copies of some of the year's best new 'stuff'. As mentioned above, we will be screening a test copy of Duke Video's forthcoming 'Can Am Thunder' DVD at our tent all weekend. US release is set for August 11. We're hoping that Ardennes Productions will deliver a copy of 'Can Am The Speed Odyssey' for viewing later in the weekend. GMP is sending us a prototype of their new 1/18 scale Ferrari 330 P4 and an advance copy of 'McLaren: The Cars 1964-2008' just arrived this afternoon. The first shipment of P4's is expected in early August. We expect our first shipment of the McLaren book next week.
Stop by and see us this weekend!
7/16/08 UPDATE: Yesterday, MINIMAX released a list of 2008 LeMans entries that they intend to produce for their Spark and RedLine brand names over the next year or so. It's an ambitious list to say the least, naming 52 of the 55 starters in this year's 24 Hours (What's missing? The two Porsche Spyders and the #55 Lamborghini). All but the Ferraris are to be produced under the Spark brand with an srp of $52.00 (subject to revision). The Ferraris will be released - probably as numbered Limited Editions - by RedLine priced at $108.00.
We'll be posting the entire list to our Online Shopping section in the next few days. Perhaps Minichamps (or someone else) will do the missing 3 cars. Want to collect the whole grid? Give us a call.
We will be closed
this Saturday (July 19). We hope you'll visit our tent at Road
America.
7/15/08 UPDATE: Last night, NASCAR driver and TV commentator Kyle
Petty's annual motorcycle charity ride made an overnight stop
at the Westin Hotel in Lombard, Illinois, about 5 miles from TMC
here in Downers Grove. I took a ride over to hear Kyle speak and
was extremely impressed with him and the work he does. I've uploaded
a few photos and mpeg's HERE. If
you can't find anything you like at TMC this week, maybe you can
throw a few bucks Kyle's way to fund the Victory
Junction Gang children camps. I guarantee it will make you
feel better while you wait for that bloody Can Am DVD!!!
You can make your donation (and also follow along with this year's ride) at Kyle Petty Charity Ride.
SOLD7/9/08 UPDATE: They're all here: Michael, John and Mario Andretti, Rick Mears, Danny Sullivan, Emerson Fittipaldi, Tom Sneva, A.J. Foyt, Bobby Rahal, Al Unser Junior and Senior, Eddie Cheever, Scott Goodyear, Scott Brayton and 1990 Indy Winner Arie Luyendyk along with 9 other starters from the 1990 Indianapolis 500 in one of the iconic model sets from the early 90s era of 1/43 scale die cast. All 24 cars from the Onyx Indy '90 set have been mounted to this beautiful custom display case, sporting an engraved brass plate and measuring 52" x 11.5 inches.
The original packaging and 'assortment' box are also included.
There are 2-3 cracks and flaws on the acrylic cover, otherwise everything is in like new condition.
$450.00 plus shipping. Additional photos HERE.
To purchase, click HERE.
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6/25/08 UPDATE: In our constant search to bring our customers the most obscure racing films possible, we've unearthed an early 60's Formula One B-movie classic: 'The Young Racers'. The film has been released as part of a 4 disc DVD boxed set of movies directed by Roger Corman. The set also includes 'The Wild Angels', starring Peter Fonda, Nancy Sinatra and Bruce Dern and other drive-in classics like 'The Trip', 'Bloody Mama', 'A Bucket of Blood', 'The Premature Burial', ' X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes' and 'Gas-s-s-s'.
That's a lot of gore for just
$39.98. Order HERE.
6/23/08 UPDATE: Here's a very cool new book for those of us interested in the early 'over the road' road races:
Classic
Motorsport Routes: 30 Legendary Routes You Can Drive Today
by Richard Meaden / Foreword by Vic Elford.
Motorsport Journalist Richard
Meaden explores the routes on which some of the world's greatest
road races and rallies have been contested by the legends of the
sport over the past 100 years.
This well illustrated book features a mixture of period and modern
day color photographs along with maps of such legendary circuits
as Reims, LeMans, the Nurburgring Nordschleife circuit and Pescara
along with the great over-the-road long distance events like the
Targa Florio, Mille Miglia, Carrera Panamericana and Isle of Man
TT and Manx events.
A total of 30 courses on 4 continents are featured over 224 pages.
A foreword by Vic Elford, one of the great road and rally drivers
of all time, kicks off this great road trip!
Our first copies arrived today.
$40.00 plus shipping. Click HERE
to order.
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6/23/08 UPDATE: Production of CMC's forthcoming 1964 Porsche 901
(911) collection will begin soon. The first shipment is expected
to arrive in the US in late summer. Full color photos of the first
production examples were released this morning. You'll find further
details and ordering instructions HERE.
6/21/08 UPDATE: An early nominee for best book of 2008? Coming in July: 'McLaren
- The Cars 1964 - 2008' by William Taylor. The complete and
comprehensive study of McLaren road and race cars,
from the first sports racer produced by Bruce McLaren's intrepid
little team in 1964 to the ultra sophisticated Formula One Grand
Prix cars engineered by the McLaren Group at their massive new
Woking corporate headquarters in 2008.
'McLaren - The Cars 1964 - 2008' is a high quality, 304 page, large format (12x12) hardback publication illustrated by 750 color photographs - most of which were commissioned for this project.
The book features an in-depth study of every McLaren model, a foreword by Ron Dennis and chapter introductions by Team McLaren stars such as Emerson Fittipaldi, Niki Lauda, Alain Prost, Mika Hakkinen and Lewis Hamilton.
A comprehensive appendix provides complete race results and specifications. Click HERE to reserve your copy. $75.00 plus shipping.
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6/19/08 UPDATE: The UK reviews were accurate: 'Jim Clark: A Photographic Portrait' ($59.95) is filled with some wonderful photographs of the great Scottish World Champion and Indy winner.
6/18/08 UPDATE: Two of the finest documentaries on MotoGP will be re-released in a 4-disc Boxed Set next week. 'Faster', filmed around the world over the 2001 and 2002 seasons, is a behind the scenes look at one of the world's most popular forms of motor racing. The film focuses on multiple World Champion Valentino Rossi, Max Biaggi, Gary McCoy and John Hopkins. Lots of on-board race footage. 'The Doctor, the Tornado and the Kentucky Kid' is the sequel to 'Faster', filmed at the 2005 Red Bull United States Grand Prix at Laguna Seca. Lots of bonus features. Hours and hours of action for just $39.95.
Special Introductory price: $35.95 plus shipping. Order by July 1.Click HERE to order.
6/17/08 UPDATE: We posted some fresh photos of GMP's forthcoming 1/18 scale Ferrari 330 P4 this afternoon. Is it the most beautiful model of 2008? Could be. First shipments are expected next month. Reserve now for $269.95 plus shipping.
A 1/8 version is also in production. Details HERE.
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6/13/08 UPDATE: Carousel 1 has announced the release dates, prices and edition sizes for the 3 1/18 scale Corvettes announced earlier this year. Full information HERE.
The impressive 'MICHAEL SCHUMACHER: The Definitive Race-by-Race Record of His Grand Prix Career' by Christopher Hilton ($49.95) is now in stock. Click HERE to order.
6/12/08 UPDATE: The Nassau Speed Weeks, held from 1954 thru 1966, featured a generous mixture of races and recreation. The races were organized to attract wealthy competitors and fans to the Bahamas after the American and European racing seasons had ended and before the traditional tourist season for the Islands had begun.
'The 9th Annual Bahamas Carnival of Speed' is a 27 minute black and white film produced for the Raybestos Corporation and contains rare footage of the 1962 Nassau Speed Weeks. It will be available on DVD here at TMC later this month for just $19.95 plus shipping. Click HERE for the details, or HERE to order.
6/11/08 UPDATE: There are some interesting new pieces scheduled for release by Auto Art this summer, including the 1/18 Elford/Ahrens Porsche Salzburg 917 Longtail that was the fastest qualifier at LeMans in 1970. Check out our recomendations at the Auto Art Advance Order Page and place your reservations. We understand they are doing another run of Steve McQueen Porsche 917s for release later this year. These usually sell pretty fast, so get your orders in early.
6/6/08 UPDATE: One of our most popular DVD tiles is available again after an absence of a couple of years. 'The Snake and the Stallion' (formerly known as 'The Cobra Ferrari Wars') double DVD set tells the story of the great battle between Enzo Ferrari and Carroll Shelby, waged on the circuits of Europe in the early to mid 1960s. $44.95 plus shipping. Click HERE to order.
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