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A 1967 Ferrari 275 GTB/NART spider. Sold this past weekend at the RM auction in Monterey for (fittingly) $27.5 million. Other non-road cars have sold for more and private transactions have exceeded the $30 million mark, but this was through the bidding process. http://money.cnn.com/2013/08/18/autos/pebble-beach-ferrari/index.html?hpt=hp_c3

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Same goes for the Mercedes 300SL Gullwing and roadster.

I particularly appreciate how Voisin devised clever engineering to keep the front fenders from falling off

Spectacular, of course. But wasn't this kitted as a James Bond car, or were there separate versions?

Pretty funny. Looks like a candidate for the 24 Hours of LeMons. http://torontosun.autonet.ca/2013/08/16/poor-mans-lamborghini-reventon-shows-up-in-china "A 28-year-old in China has built the world's 22nd copy of the Lamborghini Reventon, sort of, err... not quite. This young man has exercised his entrepreneurial skills to machine shop a sort of FrankenLambo together from a mix a sheet metal, spare parts, and unworthy automobiles."

Just about anything in this exhibit of Art Deco cars ("Sensuous Steel"), now at the Frist Museum in Nashville through September. Click on the individual car links. http://fristcenter.org/calendar-exhibitions/detail/sensuous-steel

Look in Tips, Tricks and Tutorials for an extraordinarily detailed discussion on stripping chrome. http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1527&page=1

Looks like it would take a bit of "accurizing." Especially, fixing the depth of the wheels would be difficult.

When 3D printers come down to an afforable price, 3D scanners must also be affordable and understandable to specialized hobbyists like us. Beyond that, while there will be aftermarket companies providing software to reproduce certain subjects and, like other companies providing final 3D printing, normal people like me will never master the process of creating our own CAD/whatever designs to make models to our desire, at least not without scanning. Which probably won't happen in my shrinking lifetime.

Definitely the Alfa 33. Here's the closest shot I could find. http://www.carfolio.com/specifications/models/car/?car=42317

This cries out for a diorama. Is there a way to make bottom lighting that replicates the motion of sea water?

Highest prices: $120 for 1/8 XK-E kits, and for 1/12 Ferrari 375 GTB kits. I snapped up the Ferraris before I knew what a piece of inaccurate junk they were -- don't ever buy one if you care about accuracy. But I have spent MUCH more for the reference materials behind these and other kits, aftermarket parts, plus hundreds of hours of online research, so the cost of the kits is a fraction of the overall investment.

Nice touch on graying out the tire treads. Outdoor shots would show off the car more clearly.

That one has shown up on eBay from time to time over the past couple of years and obviously never sold. When you compare its somewhat poor workmanship to the masterpieces of Gerald Wingrove and Fine Art Models, which can go as high as $30,000, you can see that the seller is living in dreamland.

Beautifully done. Nice color choices, very clean. Welcome to the forum -- looking forward to more of your work.

Benz Patent Motor Car

Looks great, but the pictures are too small to tell much.

Just saw on ultimatecarpage.com that the most famous of these cars, the first "Lister Knobbly," is coming up for auction at Bonham's. Expected to fetch $1.5 - $2.5 million (give or take a million). http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/car/3399/Lister-Knobbly-Chevrolet.html

Is the body painted?

Then we should agree to disagree. To me, that series of Corvettes looks like cheap skunkworks kit cars like the Bricklin, and definitely not evolved.

My point was, as I stated above, that before 92 Corvettes were an embarrassing choice for hard-core sports car drivers.

I agree that they looked bland, but oh mama...they were more go than show. However, mine was a black-on-black 6-speed, and drew more than a few inquiries.

Styling, by itself, is a totally different subject. Give me a '63 split window anytime (though the phony hood mesh is a major faux pas.)