Month: May 2020

Starting Monday, June 1, we will resume normal business hours during the week. Customers are welcome between 10am and 5pm thru the summer. Masks and gloves optional. We will have them available at the door if you wish to wear them. We will be open the next two Saturdays (June 6 & 13) from 10am to 3pm. We’ll post our summer Saturday schedule here as our scrambled racing schedule becomes more clear.

Spark has just announced another batch of classic Le Mans Porsches to be produced in 1/18 scale later this year, including the 1977 (below) and 1981 (above) Le Mans winners. Check everything out HERE.

Spark Model has announced a series of 1/5 scale 2020 Formula One Helmets. Click HERE for the list.

Also, the latest 1/43 National Series announcement. Several US Series items on the list including the #54 Nissan DPi as campaigned by CORE Autosport in the 2019 IMSA Weathertech Sports Car Series. Only 300 will be produced. Reserve early!

1:8 #70 1979 Porsche 935 K3 – Dick Barbour Racing’s Hawaiian Tropic – Class Winner at Le Mans 1979

Chassis number 009 0030 was delivered to Dick Barbour Racing in early 1979 as replacement for his 935 that was damaged at the end of the 1978 season. Barbour would debut his newly prepared Hawaiian Tropic 935 K3 at the 1979 24 Hours of Le Mans to much fanfare due to his ingenious marketing efforts with Hawaiian Tropic and his all star driving team comprised of himself, Rolf Stommelen and of course Paul Newman.

Newman already had a fairly impressive racing resume under his belt, but this was his first trip to Le Mans. He probably never imagined that he would be standing on the podium at the end his first ever Le Mans, but that is exactly what happened. Thanks to a series of circumstances that saw prototype cars either crash or break or just prove unreliable, Barbour and Stommelen and Newman power their Hawaiian Tropic Porsche 935 K3 to a class victory! It was like something out of a movie script. Newman had conquered Le Mans in his first attempt! 

Pre-orders are being accepted now for this amazing piece of automotive history.

Each model will come with a base and cover and a plaque personally signed by Dick Barbour. 

PN: RAR08003 – $5,249.95 – ETA: Late Q3 2020

Estimated Production: 50 Pieces

Reserve HERE

1/18 scale Limited Edtion (700) diecast from Acme Trading Company

5/21/20-IN STOCK!

Check out this killer 1970 Boss 429 Street Fighter finished in a custom Candy Red Metallic paint job and a set of brand new Street Fighter 18″ Modern Torque Thrust wheels! Other model features include everything you’d expect in an Acme model: opening doors, trunk, hood, fully detailed Boss 429 engine, fully detailed interior, individually serialized and more!

$134.95 – Order HERE

Due to last minute (always helpful) cancelations, we have a couple of the 1/12 Spark #92 Porsche 911 RSR ‘Pink Pig’ 2018 LM GTEPro Le Mans Winner available for immediate delivery. $390.00 plus shipping.

We have a nice selection of 1/12 and 1/18 scale Spark remaining from last week’s shipment, including the 1/12 #2 Porsche 919 Hybrid  that won Le Mans in 2017 (one available) and a restock of the 1/18 Ken Miles / Lloyd Ruby 1966 Daytona winning #98 Ford GT Mk.II.

Check out the complete list of New Arrivals!

Saturday’s outlaw day ‘mask required’ Gallery Hours marked the first time we opened for visitors in more than 2 months. Everything went very well. This week (M-F), we are welcoming appropriately garbed guests by appointment only.

We will be closed Memorial Day weekend. The first Memorial Day weekend I’ve spent at home since 1969.

We’ll see what our dear Governor says after his current edict comes up for renewal on May 30. Hopefully we can reopen soon. As always, we are accepting and shipping online and phone order and receiving new stock from our suppliers.

BTW – The infection rate in Downers Grove is 2 per 1000 people. Can’t get much lower than that.

Just in this afternoon: The 7up Jordan Ford 191 driven by Michael Schumacher in the 1991 Belgian Grand Prix at Spa in 1/18 scale by Minichamps. Believed by many to be one of the most beautiful cars in Formula 1 history. Limited availability.

$185.00 – Order HERE

This Saturday, May 16, we will be open to customers between 10am and 3pm.

Masks please. We will have a few available, along with gloves for those who wish to wear them.

If all goes well, we will open by appointment only next week.

– Paul

 

 

 

1/18 scale resin Limited Edition (800?) Acme Exclusive by GT Spirit

Finished in the iconic Gulf Blue livery with white stripes, this #1 Heritage Edition Ford GT honors the #1 Ford GT40 that Ken Miles and Denny Hulme heroically piloted to their controversial 2nd place finish at the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans.

FUTURE RELEASE – LIMITED EDITION

$149.95 – Reserve HERE

RESERVE ASAP FOR BEST AVAILABILITY!

Spark Model will produce the 1966 Sebring winning #1 Ford GT X1 roadster driven by Ken Miles and Lloyd Ruby in 1/18 scale along with several  significant Ford GT Mk.II coupes from the 1966 season.

The Miles/Hulme #1 Mk.II featured in the film ‘Ford v Ferrari’ and the third car in the Le Mans ‘dead heat’, the #5 Bucknum / Hutcherson  are due later this year along with  additional production of the 1966 Le Mans winning #2 of Bruce McLaren and Chris Amon.

Additional production of the Miles / Ruby 1966 Daytona winner has also been announced, but you won’t have to wait. We grabbed the final examples of that Mk.II and expect delivery soon.

As promised, we’ve uploaded information on more than 75 new models  in 1/12, 1/18 and 1/43 scale announced by Spark, TSM and BBR this week to the New Announcements page at MotorsportCollector.com.

Deadline for the Spark and TSM items is Wednesday, May 13.

Check them out!