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  1. caapa
    Hallo MATTEL, may I hope that this will be in the 1:64 Main Line ? I would be the first buyer!
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    Maserati Birdcage 75th Anniversary Pininfarina 2005 The Maserati Birdcage 75th is a functional concept car to honor both the Birdcage and Pininfarina`s 75th anniversary. The car built on the carbon fiber chassis of a Maserati MC12 GT1 race car and powered by the Ferrari/Maserati F140 V12, rated at 700 hp engine. The upper part of the body with the huge windshild from front to back made of perspex is to open half-half by raising and tilting for- and backwards. The wheels measuring 21 inches at the front and 22 inches at the rear. They were especially designed for the car. The Birdcage concept won the awards of Louis Vuitton Classic Concept, the Best Concept of the Geneva Motor Show 2005 and the L’automobile più bella del mondo. The car was completed in just 2 months, following a fast pace design phase using 3D renderings. The lone demonstrator model lacks air-conditioning or any form of climate control. In the great hurry they forget it ? The model is made by Grani & Partner (7 Eleven) scale 1:64. Enjoy the pictures.
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    Thank you Michael for the information. I`m happy to learn something new always.
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    Hi Michael, I used the attached reference article (about contemporary ?) to write it was originaly black. But knowing the media one can`t be sure.
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    1-75 story 07 Ferrari Modulo 1969 The Modulo is unlike any car Ferrari had ever made. It originally started out as a Ferrari 512S for testing. After the tests, the engine and transmission were removed and the chassis was given to Pininfarina to build a show car. The car was shown at the 1970 Geneva Motor Show. It was originally painted black, but was later repainted in white. The Pininfarina design was well received by critics and has won 22 awards for its design. Ferrari never meant for the car to actually function - it had an empty engineblock only - and later had given it to Pininfarina. But in 2014 they sold it to James Glickenhaus who restored it to full operating condition. The car is today road legal with licence plate and all necessary additons for drive on public roads. Lamborghini Bravo Concept 1974 The Bravo was designed to showcase ideas for a replacement to the Urraco. Marcello Ghandini designed at Bertone the fully working prototype with a 3.0L 300 hp V8 that powered the rear wheels. The car was tested nearly 270,000 km before went in the Bertone Museum. It was never put into production but design elements are appeared on later Lamborghinis. In 2011 was sold at an auction for €588,000. The models are in 1:75 scale curved from wood, with rubber tyres and inserted head and rear lights. That time I had only B&W photos so I found the Modulo is a dark colour – I tought Ferrari should be red – and the Bravo had a metalic paintjob. Now I know in reality the Modulo was black. The Bravo probably the champane coloured, after perlescent yellow and green and before todays white colour. The white Modulo is made by Corgi in the Rockets line in 3” size. I repainted it, gave headlights by decals and completed the wheel covers with the lower parts. Enjoy the pictures.
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    Up date: The exterieur of car is completed with the white accents on front lip and rear fin. The inside of endplates of rear wing is painted orange and the break kalipers too. It is pity that the kalipers are rotating with the disks together. The little one is made by Tomica 1:62 scale. It needed only some white and orange lines and the STO + italian colours in front of the windscreen to complete to the level of 1:24. (apart from the wheels)
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    Audi R8 Le Mans 2000 At the R8’s Le Mans debut, the cars swept the podium in a 1-2-3 finish. In total the R8 won 63 out of 79 races giving it a winning record of 79.7%. The Team Audi Sport North America competed in the twelve round American Le Mans Series (ALMS) and nine out of twelve rounds an Audi R8 crossed the finish line first. Audi celebrated six double victories. The car was powered by an Audi 3.6 liter 610 bhp 90-degree V8 twin-turbo engine built in a carbon fiber and aluminium honeycomb monocoque. The car was not only quickly but safe too: according the regulations the roll-bar has to be good for min. 10 tonnes . The roll-bar of R8 was tested with a load of up to 27 tonnes. The model made by Maisto in scale 1:18. Enjoy the pictures.
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    Renault R40 F1 1983 In 1983 Alain Prost was undisputed no.1 driver. The RE40 was designed around his driving style, and he racked up many miles of testing to avoid the unreliability of the previous two seasons. The car was powered by a Renault Gordini EF1 turbocharged 1.5-litre V6 engine produced a claimed 880 bhp. This was the first Renault chassis to be built entirely of carbon fibre. Renault had never come so close to winning the constructors' championship as with RE40 in 1983. But the turbochargers themselves were to prove the RE40's weakness, and on numerous occasions turbo troubles end the race. Alain Prost later recalled that ťhat wear there was a good turbo to have and a bad one.” We had the bad one.” The model is from ELF as a give away at the filling stations. It was in a wrong condition. I must scratch build the missing rearwing and gave a more autentical paintjob. Enjoy the pictures.
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    Up Date. I completed the front and rear end decoration. Additionaly I painted the wheels as the original plus BMW logo.
  10. caapa
    Thank you.
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    GM Firebird I, XP-500, Firebird II, III and IV. General Motors never intended these cars for production, but rather to highlight the extremes of technology and design that the company was able to achieve. The cars have recently joined the exhibition at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan , and still make regular appearances. The models: GM Firebird I: I found some dimensions data in a hungarian book about cars in 1968. I used these to make a 4 view blueprint. During making looked the diameter of wheels rather great but I trusted in the data. It was a mistake. GM Firebird III: in 1987 I found a side view drawing in a magazin and based on it and photos I could make the drawings for curving the model. GM XP-500: I had a side view of the car and no more pictures. There was only mentioned that this is an „engineer” variant of Firebird II which is the „designer” variant. So I used the photos of Firebird II to make the necessary drawings. The newly found photos show the front and rear and they are rather different from my idea. GM Firebird II: there were some photos of the car but no one from the rear. A gentleman who saw the car 1:1 in USA said that my idea of the wings was correct. Later in the internet time it became clear it wasn`t correct. GM Firebird IV: in 2011 on the page of SMCars.Net (the page don`t exists soon) I found drawings. I detailed it and made cutaways of the interieur to do miniature model. There was built one in 1:64 and one in 1:75 scale. My drawings emerged on the pages of cardesignnews.com newly. Enjoy the pictures.
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    Hi, if you have some concpt cars 1:24 please send mephotos too. Many thanks in advance, János
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    Yes. The BAT cars are high in my favorits list. But the BAT 11 I don`t like so much. So I didn`t curved one model.
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    Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray Racing Special (XP-87) 1959 It was originally conceived as a race car, rather than the concours queen it has become. Bill Mitchell - then Vice President for Design at GM - in 1959 decided to pay the princely sum of one dollar to bring the test mule Corvette SS out of a premature retirement. But being a designer, wanted to flaunt some of his team’s aesthetic creativity. The after-hours project took place in the ‘Hammer Room’: a secret work area hidden behind a tool room. The car had the fuel-injected 4.6-litre V8 producing 311 bhp and arrived 155 mph top speed. It made its debut at the Maryland Marlboro Raceway at the hands of ‘Flying Dentist’ Dick Thompson, and narrowly missed out on a podium finish. The Stingray reportedly had a tendency to ‘take off’ beyond 140 mph, with its aerodynamics failing to provide enough downforce at the front end. Subsequent modifications were made, which proved successful enough for Thompson and his steed to bring home their class championship during the 1960 SCCA season. At last the GM bosses showing interest in turning it into an official show car for the company. The model made by Auto-Art scale 1:18. I was lucky to get it with a rather good price cut in a toy shop. Enjoy the pictures.
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    Yes, it is at Hotwheels during the presentation of the Gas Monkey Corvette in 1:1 and 1:64. Richard Rawlings and his Technical Direktor might start the 1:64 variant from a 4 m high Hotwheels track. Richard was the winner of race.
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    Rolls Royce Phantom VI 1972 The Phantom VI was produced with an engine 6230 cc, 244 HP connected to a 4-speed automatic and arrived 180 km/h top speed. Only 374 units were built between 1968 and 1990. This particular unit was built by Mulliner Park Ward with electric windows and rear seats, black and white television, separate FM radio and air conditioning for front and rear compartments, a drinks cabinet and an intercom and telephone system. The car includes a radio station and transmissions too used by police. The car was owned at some point by a former princess from the Middle East and got this colour combo. She used this car in Paris and has travelled 9,906 miles only. The car is now in the Tiriac Collection in Romania which is the only current gallery that features all 7 Phantom models of the I-VII series. The model is made by Tomica 1:78 as a Phantom V. But the last Phantom VI was built by special order of the Sultan of Brunei in 1995 even so it was named Rolls Royce Phantom V Limousine. So I betought that I may name the Tomica Phantom V after the custom painting as Phantom VI. Enjoy the pictures.
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    Great looking car in the race livery. The wheels are superb. Are they full resin or wired with metal wire ? As street car it isn`t attractiv so much.
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    Thank you Gary the nice comment. The cars were a great success in 1988 when I show tham on a model car exhibishon. Two magazins reportrs are wrot about my 1:75 scale works.
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    1-75 story 05 Alfa Romeo BAT 5, BAT 7, BAT 9 Bertone concepts, 1953 – 1954 – 1955 The cars originated from a joint collaboration project between Alfa Romeo and the Italian design house Bertone and designed by Franco Scaglione. Alfa Romeo commissioned three concept vehicles to research the effects of drag on a vehicle. Each of the BAT cars (Berlina Aerodinamica Technica) based on an about 100 HP 4 cylinder engine with a 5 speed gearbox. The BAT 5 arrived 200 km/h with its 0.23 drag coefficient. For the BAT 7 Bertone added elements from his experience working in the aeronautical industry. The front was lowered and the the tail fins were larger and more curved. The result is a drag coefficient 0.19, an achievement even by today's standards. The BAT 9 was designed more like to the then current Alfa Romeo models than the other BATs. All three original BATs have been restored. After some appearances at car shows and museum they were sold as one lot on an auction for US$14.840 million. The models are curved from wood as the earlier ones but they got a bubble of transparent plastic and so were more really models with windows and interieur too. Enjoy the pictures.
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    Lamborghini Essenza SC V12 2020 The Essenza is a track-only sports car, produced by Squadra Corse racing division of Lamborghini. It isn`t a racecar only built to ”race” in a series of special Essenza only track days at circuits around the world. Emanuele Pirro, the five-time Le Mans winner who helped develop the car is on hand to give advice to Essenza owners. The car is based on Aventador SVJ but with a lot of differencies.The car is powered by a version of Lamborghini’s long-serving 6.5-liter naturally aspirated V-12, running without catalysts and now making 819 HP. It is the most powerful and the last purely naturally-aspirated car built by Lamborghini. The car is 136 kg lighter than the Aventador SVJ and features a FIA approved carbon composite crash structure and a carbon fibre monocoque which is the first to be homologated without the use of metal roll cage. A journalist got a prototype of Essenza to test drive at Vallelunga, wearing a warning “Attenzione: Macchina Veloce,” or “Warning: Fast Car.” The model is made by Jiglifang/China 1:24 scale. Enjoy the pictures.
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    Ligier Matra JS5 1976 Guy Ligier, having secured backing from the French tobacco company SEITA, recruited Gérard Ducarouge constructor from Matra and set about preparing an entry for Formula One. The first car was ready for testing in November 1975 and was powered by the Matra MS73 V12 engine. The new French F2 champion Jacques Laffite proved much the quicker in testing as the experienced Jean-Pierre Beltoise, and secured the drive. The early races in 1976 were completed with the JS5 bearing a large airbox (earning the car the nickname of "Teapot") but changes in regulations following the 1976 Spanish Grand Prix saw this drastically downsized. The improved car arrived good results in the season. By the end Ligier, with 20 points, placed sixth in the Constructor's Championship and Laffite was seventh in the Driver's Championship. The model made by Polistil scale 1:55 primarily. I loved that great airbox since 1976 but there was no model of this in 3” range. Not long ago I found a blueprint of this car in internet. As I had two original Polistil cars I converted one to the early version. I beveled the small airintake from the driver`s seat to the end of body above the engine. Curved the great one from wood and glued with epoxi putty. The livery was made by self made decals. Enjoy the pictures.
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    1:75 story 03 Lancia Stratos Zero Concept 1970 In 1969, Nuccio Bertone wished to expand his portfolio by getting Lancia’s attention, luring the company away from its long relationship with Pininfarina and Zagato. He bought a friend’s Lancia Fulvia which was damaged in an accident, but most of its mechanical components, including the engine and suspension, remained intact. Bertone planned to reinvent the Fulvia with a mid-engine layout, so it was capable of competing on the world rally stage against the Alpine A110 and Ford GT70. The project was handed to Bertone’s young prodigy Marcello Gandini who saw an opportunity to push his radical wedge design to the extreme. The car took the Turin Motor Show 1970 and catapulted its designer into superstardom. The model was made in usual way with rubber tyres but without any suspension. Ferrari 365 GTB4 Daytona 1968 Sleek and modern Pininfarina lines were matched with the 4.4-litre V12 engine 259 kW. The excellent weight distribution provided by the rear gearbox transaxle produced the rare balance of the car. The top speed was 280 km/h. The 365 GTB4 was a milestone in the history of extreme high-performance front-engined sports cars and a great concurrent of the „modern” mid-engined Lamborghini Miura. The unofficial Daytona name is reported to have been applied by the media and commemorates Ferrari's 1-2-3 finish in the 1967 24 Hours of Daytona. Ferrari itself only rarely refers to the 365 as the "Daytona". The model was made in usual way with rubber tyres but without any suspension.
  23. caapa
    Hi Steve, I`m happy you enjoy my models and the background stories.
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    Hi Gary, yes, this steering system seems rather curious. But if we think over: at low speed a "short wheelbase" make the car more agile in cornering. And the oposite turning the rear wheels make a shorter wheelbase virtually and give a greater agility and performance around corners. At high speeds you don`t need to "corner " but a good straight run is important. A "long wheelbase" is an advantage in this situation and the parallel turning the rear wheels with the front ones make a longer wheelbase virtually and ensure full control of the vehicle and excellent stability. The Lamborghini Aventador SVJ 2018 has a similar rear steering system.
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    Rolls Royce Phantom VIII 2018 Nearly 100 years since the first Rolls-Royce Phantom was unveiled. It is the longest continuously used model name in automotive history. The newest Phantom is the „pinnacle” of Rolls-Royce now. It has been in development for six years and is the first built on a bespoke aluminium spaceframe architecture. The suspension system is linked to a stereo camera mounted behind the windscreen. This scans the road ahead and preconfigures the spring and damper rates, and the anti-roll bars, so as to improve ride quality. The Phantom VIII is the first Rolls-Royce to be fitted with four wheel steering. As the speed may be higher the rear wheels shall be turn counter, than don`t turn and at higher speed turn in the same direction as the front wheels. So the system abel to better manoeuvrability and increase high-speed stability too. The car uses "Silent-Seal" tyres co-developed with Continental. And it was only some little technical delicatessen and even not to mention the luxury ones. I think this car is just as a Rolls Royce should be. The model is made by Che-Zhi, China in 1:24 scale. The „protection” of Emily is even nearer to 1:1 solution: after open the hood you can lay back the ornament. Enjoy the pictures.
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