#76 Sam Posey Challenger from Acme Trading Co.

1/18 scale diecast from Acme Trading Company

This #76 car was the stablemate of Posey’s #77 Challenger during the 1970 SCCA Trans-Am season. Posey raced the #77 car in the first five races of the season, but then switched to the #76 car for races at Donnybrooke, Mont-Tremblant, Kent and Riverside.

As legend has it, the reason that Posey alternated between the two cars was because the Autodynamics team, in efforts to reduce weight, had left the #77 body in the acid bath a bit too long! Throughout the years, Posey would tell stories of how the body would barely last an entire race, and at the end of the race the team would have to weld the body back together! Fortunately the team got it right with this #76 car as it accounted for seven of the team’s 18 points during the 1970 season which pushed them to a fourth place finish overall.

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1/43 scale Spark National Series

Spark Model’s latest list of 1/43 scale National Series models contains the CORE Autosport and United Autosports LMP2 entries from the 2018 24 Hours of Daytona,  a selection of 2017 DTM Mercedes, Audis, BMW M6 GT3 entries from the 2017 Spa and Nurburgring 24 Hour races – and more!

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Advance Order Deadline:  Friday, September 21.

The Green Monster

Coming This Week:       1/18 scale Art Arfons Green Monster

The Green Monster was the name of several vehicles built by Art Arfons and his half brother Walt Arfons. These ranged from dragsters to a turbojet-powered car which briefly held the land speed record three times during 1964 and 1965.

The land speed record “Green Monster” won the land speed record three times during the close competition of 1964 and 1965. It was powered by an F-104 Starfighter jet engine with four-stage afterburner.

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