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US Release Date: March 26, 2025
It’s not just flashing, snarling Porsche cars that racing photographer Rainier W. Schlegelmilch captures in these shots from 1963 to 1988 – though his zoom effect lifts them dramatically off the page. It’s his story over the years, it’s the reality of the track, drivers’ conversations, mechanics’ dirty hands. Feel the vibrations and smell the oil!
Hardcover, 14.2 x 11.9 in., 8.90 lb, 356 pages
$125.00 – Reserve your copy HERE
Our next shipment from TSM Model / TopSpeed contains several 1/18 and 1/43 IMSA race cars from the 2023 and 2024 seasons, including the 1/18 scale #77 ‘Rexy’ Porsche 911 GT3 Pro that finished 2nd in the 2024 24 Hours of Daytona and the #80 AO Racing Porsche 911 GT3 in ‘Roxy’ livery from VIR in 2023.
Check out all the available cars from that shipment HERE.
Coming March 11!
Can-Am and Formula 1 in their golden age
Forword by Sir Jackie Stewart
Epilogue with Mario Andretti
As Sir Jackie Stewart states in his Foreword, “Pete Lyons was one of the best journalists in Formula 1 at the time I was racing.” Lyons himself writes that when he became obsessed with motor racing, “It felt like my true road.” This memoir retraces his steps along that road, focusing on the days when he wrote about and photographed the Can-Am sportscar series in his native America during its finest period from 1966 to 1972, then switched to Formula 1 for four great seasons from 1973 to 1976. Lyons witnessed Chaparral, Lola, McLaren and Porsche create ever-more-monstrous Can-Am beasts to be tamed by the likes of Jim Hall, John Surtees, Bruce McLaren, Denny Hulme, Mario Andretti and Mark Donohue. His cameras, notebooks and typewriter also were there when Tyrrell, Lotus, McLaren and Ferrari were the dominant forces in Formula 1, with Jackie Stewart, Emerson Fittipaldi, Niki Lauda and James Hunt the World Champion drivers. Immersed in this golden age of racing, Lyons brought a unique blend of evocative description and fastidious factual detail to his craft, putting his devoted readers at the heart of the action. This captivating memoir will transport you back to those times.
US Release Date: March 11, 2025
Hardbound | 560 pages
$90.00 – Reserve your copy HERE
For the past 2-3 weeks, we’ve been busy processing and shipping models from the large shipments we received earlier this month. As a result, we were unable to list the latest new product announcements from some of our favorite brands. until yesterday.
The most impressive lineup comes from Tecnomodel. The company announced plans to produce the fast and beautiful 1982 Renault RE30B Grand Prix car in 1/18 scale. The RE30B scored 4 victories that season in the hands of Alain Prost and Rene Arnoux. All four race winners will be produced in Limited Editions with and without a helmeted driver figure in the cockpit.
Same price. Your choice.
Tecnomodel will also produce 4 1/18 scale Limited Edition versions of the Lotus 109 Formula 1 car from 1994, including the Alex Zanardi mount from the British Grand Prix seen above.
Last but not least, four 1/18 scale Limited Edition versions of the the Jaguar C-Type Longtail will be produced, including the #18 Duncan Hamilton / Tony Rolt entry from the 1952 24 Hours of Le Mans seen above.
Technically, the advance order deadline on all of this is January 31, but we can stretch that a bit. Please reserve asap!
It was 1970, and famed race car driver Parnelli Jones was hurtling along the Riverside International Speedway in a yellow Boss 302 Mustang, competing for Ford in the Trans-Am Series alongside teammate George Follmer. The race would end up being one of his toughest, and proudest, victories.
On the fifth lap, while passing a lapped car, Jones was bumped off-course by a back marker and returned to the fray with the right side of the Mustang crushed in, fenders rubbing the tires and driveshaft bent. In tenth place, Jones continued until black-flagged for smoke, pitting for emergency repairs to the leaking transmission seal caused by the wobbling driveshaft. Meanwhile, Follmer had opened up a huge lead and was seemingly headed for an easy victory.
However, Jones worked his battered Mustang into third place behind Donohue’s Javelin. Parnelli’s Mustang was battered and dirty and the right side was caved in, the front spoiler was crumpled, and the brake ducts were dropping off. Lap after lap he charged out of turn nine, contemptuously brushing the wall, gunning past the pits with his granite chin thrust forward. With ten laps to go they were running nose to tail, their domination of the Trans-Am so complete that they had each other to race with. The Jones-Follmer showdown ended in the nick of time as Follmer’s shift linkage broke, leaving him without third gear. Jones cruised past to cap off a tremendous 1970 season with a win at Riverside.
PN: R1201202
#15 1970 Ford Trans Am Mustang – Parnelli Jones
MSRP: $399.95
ESTIMATED ETA: Late Q3 2025
Estimated Production 250 pieces
by Mark Raffauf, Jonathan Ingram, Martin Raffauf, and George Silbermann
The International Motorsports Association (IMSA), developed from nothing into the biggest and most successful sports car racing sanctioning authority in the world in just under twenty years. Documented first in IMSA 1969–1989: The Inside Story of How John Bishop Built the World’s Greatest Sports Car Racing Series, this new volume covers the turbulent 1990s and all that changed in that time.
Now in stock! Order your copy HERE.
The first 2025 shipments from Spark, Tecnomodel and LookSmart are expected to arrive next week. Most are pre-sold but we have a small quantity of ‘extras’ available for more than a dozen new arrivals, including Le Mans winners from 2024, 1969 and 1951, Max Verstappen’s 2023 US Grand Prix winning Red Bull, several 2024 Le Mans entries in both 1/18 and 1/43 scale, classic F1 cars and more.
Click HERE for a list of what is still available.
We are closed until Monday, January 6, 2025.
I’ll be checking your emails at Paul@MotorsportCollector.com on a regular basis and working on ways to make our 40th year a good one for our friends and fellow Collectors.
Happy New Year!
Paul
Tecnomodel is taking the leap into 1/12 scale in 2025 with a selection of 8 different Ferrari 512S Long Tail variations from the 1970 24 Hours of Le Mans. Each model will arrive in special packaging in a full display case. Details HERE
Tecnomodel also announced several forthcoming 1/18 scale subjects including the Lotus 94 from 1983 with or without driver figure (same price), the Lotus 56B and also with driver figures, the Ferrari 312 B2.
A full display case will also be provided with these 1/18 Limited Editions.
Advance order deadline for all of the above is Monday, January 6, 2025.
Now in stock. Advance orders shipping this week. Order HERE.