SOLD OUT11/28/06 UPDATE: The 1/18 scale 'Rothmans' Porsche 956L has arrived from Minichamps. As you can see, there are no phony 'Racing' markings on this model. You can view the full photo set HERE. Although it's very frustrating for collectors world wide, tobacco logos are considered advertising and no longer permitted on models of this type. However, this is a fine model and an important victory for Porsche - the first win for the 956/962. And, most collectors are quite resourceful in matters such as these. Shipping today. $79.95.
11/27/06 UPDATE: If you subscribe to our weekly Email Updates or
downloaded a copy of our 2006
Holiday Newsletter over the weekend, you got a heads up on
the release of Minichamps's new 1/18 scale 1982 LeMans winning
Porsche 956L a few days ago. We were made aware of the release
just before Thanksgiving. Official photos are not available but
we are told that while the appropriate 'Rothmans' decals are not
part of this model's livery, due to the ban on tobacco advertising,
the car has been left 'blank' and does not have the innacuate
'Racing' logos as did the previously released 1983 LeMans winner.
What you do with this model when you get it home is your own business.
Our shipment is due to arrive on Tuesday and we will post (and
email to subscribers) photos of the actual model as soon as they
arrive. Reserve now at $79.95 plus shipping.
Another new arrival late last week was 'Ferrari: The Red Dream', an elegant new coffee table book featuring photographs of more than 20 of the marque's most beautiful and successful sports racing and Grand Prix cars. Photographer Pietro Carrieri of Milan, Italy captures every line and curve of these magnificent machines. The thick, glossy pages of 'Ferrari: The Red Dream' provide a depth of color that adds to the beauty of Carrieri's work. With a fine accompanying text by racing historian Doug Nye, this book would make a perfect gift for anyone who loves fine automobiles. 232 page. $60.00 plus shipping.
11/24/06 UPDATE: Our 2006 Holiday Newsletter will be in the mail to our US customers next week. You can get a head start by downloading a pdf copy HERE.
11/17/06 UPDATE: Our first shipment of Carousel 1's long awaited Lotus Turbine has arrived. Without a doubt, it is the finest model yet produced by Carousel! The model's level of detail belies the wedge's misleadingly simple shape. And the quality is unmatched in it's price range ($139.95). We've added a complete photo set of an actual production model to our Carousel 1 Turbine page and the New Arrival Diecast page. A must have for 60's Indy fans! Reserve now for the Holidays.
11/16/06 UPDATE: Our friends at Compulsion have
released a new pewter & resin sculpture of Dan Gurney's Belgian
Grand Prix winning Eagle Westlake V12 ($79.95). the eagle
measures 9 inches long and weighs just over a pound. A sample
is now on display at TMC and our first shipment is due to arrive
by the end of the month. Reserve early for Holiday delivery.
11/14/06 UPDATE: Maserati's beautiful and brutal MC12 is now available in a highly detailed 1/18 scale curbside model by BBR. The matte black Michael Schumacher Fiorano Test Car has been produced in a Limited Edition of just 508 pieces ($299.95). A wonderful contrast to your CMC Birdcage. They look great together. Stop by to take a look, or click HERE. Additional Maserati photos and more new Minichamps on the New Die Cast Page.
11/13/06 UPDATE: Minichamps has delivered the 1/43 scale Renault R26 of 2006 World Champion Fernando Alonso ($34.95) and this stunning new 1/18 scale 1969 Maserati Ghibli ($74.95). Both have been posted to the New Die Cast Page. You can also click on the Ghibli photo above for additional photos. More new Minichamps and the striking new 1/18 scale Maserati MC12 from BBR coming tomorrow.
The Lotus Turbines will
arrive by the weekend.
11/10/06 UPDATE: Have you signed up for our EMail Updates? If not, use the sign-up feature below.
This week's Update features 'Grand Prix - A Tribute', a Limited Edition print by Nicholas Watts honoring John Frankenheimer's classic film 'Grand Prix'. Each copy in the 850 print edition is hand signed by Pete Aron himself, Hollywood great James Garner. With the popular release of Grand Prix on DVD recently, this print is going fast. $270.00 plus shipping.
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11/9/06 UPDATE: Lots of additions to the website this week, including a link to Mapquest (we worked out the coding bugs this afternoon), lots of new items and some changes in our format. There's more to come, we hope you like it. A couple of new books this week: A Porsche 917 photo book from Iconografix, edited by Karl Ludvigsen ($29.95, in stock) and 'Postcards from Detroit' ($24.95), a photo history of the Detroit Grand Prix, due to arrive Friday.
Now that we have a couple of extra cars to work with, we've posted a full photo set of BBR's beautiful 1/18 scale 1954 LeMans winning Ferrari 375 Plus ($299.95, in stock). Click the banner. More BBR news next week.
This year's Motor Sport Calendar honors the 'Legends of LeMans'. It returns to the traditional one photo per month format but will feature both black & white and color photographs from the LAT archives. We expect our shipment in early December. We suggest you reserve your copy early. $65.00 plus shipping.
11/3/06 UPDATE: This morning, we've uploaded a totally rebuilt Book Section to our website. More than 100 of our most popular titles are featured. More will be added over the next few days and new arrivals will be uploaded as they arrive. We haven't written any updates here for a while, but the changes to the site have been obvious for those of you who visit us regularly. Your comments are always appreciated.
I'd like to call attention to the link above for our Holiday Preview Page. At this time, only our Calendar offerings and Michael Turner's new Christmas Card set are listed but additional 'traditions' will be uploaded to that page as information becomes available.
The Bellof / Boutsen Porsche
956K ($44.95) is one of the new 1/43 scale arrivals from
Minichamps. More photos HERE.
10/24/06 UPDATE: Good news for everyone who's asked us for a quality 1/43 scale diecast of the Lowenbrau Porsche 962 over the years. Spark will release the 1986 Daytona Winning version, driven by Al Holbert, Derek Bell and Al Unser Jr sometime next month at the very affordable price of $39.95 plus shipping. We're impressed with what Spark has been doing lately and will be expanding our selection over the next few months. Check out their available Porsche 962Cs and their list of 2006 LeMans racers - also scheduled for release by the end of the year. Reserve now!
10/17/06
UPDATE: Those of you who have
Showtime may have caught this excellent documentary on the Baja
1000 recently. We did, and were so impressed that we immediately
added 'Dust to Glory' ($14.99) to our DVD selection.
Written, Directed and Narrated by Dana Brown, the son of Bruce Brown, who a generation or two ago brought us classics like 'On Any Sunday' and 'The Endless Summer', 'Dust To Glory' is one of the most exciting racing documentaries we've ever seen. Brown's extensive use of on-board and helicopter footage not only show the intense action of this grueling race but captures the rugged magnificence of Mexico's Baja Peninsula as well, if not better than anything you'll ever see on the Travel Channel. A dramatic soundtrack adds to the excitement and tension of the racing scenes and interviews with the stars as well as unsung Baja 1000 stalwards tell the fascinating story of this relatively obscure event and show the raw courage and endurance required to compete - especially on two wheels!
'Dust To Glory' also includes vintage footage of previous Baja races. Early competitors included Parnelli Jones, Steve McQueen and James Garner
The Special Features (stuff you won't see on cable TV) may be even better. They include a salute to Bruce Brown, a behind the scenes look at the making of 'Dust To Glory' and uncut versions of some of the film's most spectacular sequences, including one 2 wheeled competitor's high speed beach 'shortcut' along the Pacific coast, captured by one of Brown's helicopter crews, and a 115mph motorcycle slalom through traffic and dirt roads by a racer - and a cameraman trying to keep up.
Cool stuff.
'Dust To Glory' is perhaps the most breathtaking 97 minutes of racing action you'll see this year and definately belongs in any enthusiast's DVD collection!
Georgio Piola's eagerly anticipated '2005/06 Formula One Technical Analysis' is due to arrive by the weekend. $34.95 plus shipping. Reserve now!
10/10/06 UPDATE:
Lots of new arrivals to tell you about today. Above, a new giclee
print offering from Randy Owens entitled 'Must be 56 Inches
to Ride'. This limited edition of just 50 prints, each hand
signed by AJ Allmendinger is priced at $125.00 plus shipping.
Not a bad commemorative of this American driver's breakthrough
season.
On the right: Perhaps the most interesting of Carousel 1's line of 1/48 scale aircraft is the World War I Nieuport 11 flown by an Italian ace named Franceso Baracca (more photos HERE).
Most serious Tifosi know why.
Baracca, a native of Modena, was Italy's top ace in the Great War, scoring 35 victories. He was known for the black prancing horse insignia on the fuselage of his Spad or Nieuport. Baracca was shot down and killed in June of 1918 while strafing enemy troops but his spirit lives on through this distinctive emblem.
Legend has it that after winning the Circuit of Savio at Ravenna in 1923 another Modena native - a young man by the name of Enzo Ferrari - was presented the prancing horse insignia by Baracca's parents to honor his amazing performance against more powerful opponents that day. Ferrari added a yellow shield (the official city color of Modena) and the initials S.F. and placed the new logo on the sides of his Scuderia Ferrari Alfas. When Ferrari began building his own cars in the late 40's, the 'Cavalino Rampante' became his trademark.
Today
it is one of the most identifiable and prestigious symbols of
excellence in the world.
Priced at just $69.95, Baracca's Nieuport would make an excellent addition to any collection of Ferrari models or memorabilia. Only 1,200 were produced. Don't miss out!
While we're on the subject of Ferrari, Maurice Louche's impressive new book 'Emotion Ferrari: Europe 1947-1972' is now in stock. It features more than a thousand photos, most never before seen, covering Grand Prix, Endurance, Rally and Hill Climb events. Each photo was selected either for its historic, technical, visual or human interest, or for its rarity, its unusual aspect or simply for its beauty or the emotion it creates. Each photo has a detailed caption (in both English and French) which includes chassis numbers where ever possible. Jean Sage helped with the French translations. Forwards were written by Paul Frere, Jean Guichet, Robert Manzon, Maurice Trintignant and Nino Vaccarella. A serious piece of work for the Ferrari enthusiast and historian. $235.00.
Mark Donohue won the 1972 Indianapolis 500 after Jerry Grant refueled the Mystery Eagle from the tank in Bobby Unser's pits and was disqualified. But the man who dominated the race that day was Gary Bettenhausen in the other Penske Racing entry. Gary B. led 138 laps but retired with ignition problems less than 50 miles from Victory Lane. Carousel 1's Limited Edition (1200) 1/18 scale model of Bettenhausen's Sunoco McLaren M16 Offy (seen below) is now available for $139.95 plus shipping. Additional photos on the New Die Cast Page.
The highly anticipated Joe Leonard STP Turbine Car is Carousel 1's November 2006 offering. We've posted as set of photos HERE. It should be at or near the top of a LOT of Christmas lists. Start dropping hints today!
More new stuff tomorrow. Visit us often - and BUY something!
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10/3/06 UPDATE: The latest addition to our selection of Pewter/Resin Sculptures from Compulsion is this impressive replica of the distinctive Bugatti radiator/grill. Measuring 22 inches long and nearly a foot wide, this hanging sculpture would make an excellent addition to any afficionato's office or den.
Made to order in Europe, order by November 1 for Holiday delivery. Just $295.00 plus shipping.
Restocks of Auto Art's 1/18 scale C6R Corvettes have arrived. Back order ship today and tomorrow.
The first of the 1/18 scale 2006 Formula One cars from Hot Wheels has arrived. Kimi Raikkonen's McLaren MP4/21 is priced at $54.95 plus shipping. The rest of the 1/18 '06 Hot Wheels Ferraris, Renaults and McLarens are due shortly. Reserve now. More photos on the New Die Cast Page.
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