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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.

FUTURE RELEASE – ETA FEBRUARY 2019 – RESERVE NOW!

$139.95 – ORDER HERE

 

Spark Model will produce a 2017 Sebring winning version of the #10 Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac VR-DPi in addition to the 2017 Rolex 24 winning version announced previously.

$80.00 each, click on the links to order.

NOW AVAILABLE:

Our latest Acrylic Cover is designed to fit the base of your 1/18 scale McLaren M20 and other Tecnomodel releases.

$29.95 – Order HERE

Click HERE for a list of today’s new arrivals from Spark and LookSmart.

Only 1 or 2 of each still available!

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!

Click HERE for the list.

Advance Order Deadline:  Friday, September 21.

Spark has officially announced their 1/43 scale lineup for the 2018 24 Hours of Le Mans.

46 models total – all competitors  save Ferrari, Ford and BMW.

Advance Order Deadline is Friday, September 21.  Click HERE.

Promotional photos for most entries are unavailable at this time.  We recommend you download the Weathertech sponsored Andy Blackmore Design Spotter’s Guide for complete liveries and information.

Coming early next week, the 1/18 2017 Le Mans winner and more.

Click HERE for a list of the models still available!

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.

$249.99 – Order HERE

Available November 2018:

Gulf 917. The Porsche 917 is one of the most successful and iconic racing cars of all tme, thanks in part to its starring role in the Steve McQueen film, Le Mans. This volume presents a detailed chassis-by-chassis and race-by-race history of the Porsche 917s raced by the John Wyer/Gulf team. The book includes the history leading to the 917 and the partnership between Porsche, Gulf and JW Automotive Engineering. The cars profiled in the book were instrumental in Porsche’s taking of the 1970 and 1971 World Sportscar Championship titles as the Gulf-Porsche 917s won 11 of the 17 championship races entered.

Written with assistance from JWAE Chief Engineer, John Horsman, the book includes scans of his original race data sheets. The book also includes numerous rarely seen photos, many from Porsche’s archive. Detailed post-Gulf histories are presented for each car. Relive the exploits of driving legends Jo Siffert, Pedro Rodriguez and teammates Brian Redman, Leo Kinnunen, Derek Bell and Jackie Oliver as they race the Gulf 917s on the fast tracks of an evocative motorsport era.

SPECIAL PUBLISHER’S EDITION:

• 230mm x 280mm
• Regular Edition plus bonus material including additional 160 pages & 170 images in a two volume slip-cased set
• 200 signed and numbered copies (signed by Derek Bell, Brian Redman, John Horsman and Jay Gillotti)
• VOL 1: 496 pages, 460 images, hardcover with dust jacket
• VOL 2: 152 pages, 160 images, hardcover with dust jacket
• $350.00 – Reserve HERE

REGULAR HARDBOUND EDITION:

• 230mm x 280mm
• Page count: 496
• Images count: 460
• Single volume, hardcover with dust jacket
• $150.00 – Reserve HERE

Another burst of new product announcements from Tecnomodel today.

In 1/18 scale, a series of 5 Porsche 718 RSK’s in various configurations, including 3 entries from the 1958 24 Hours of Le Mans and the Wolfgang von Trips Zeltweg winner from 1958.

Also in 1/18 scale, the Ferrari 365 GTC 4 in four colors, including the Rosso Corsa with Black Interior seen here.

Also in today’s announcement, five 1/43 scale examples of the McLaren 720S in assorted colors.

All of the above are being produced in Limited Editions of various sizes from 150 to just 49.

 

Advance Order Deadline for everything is Friday, September 14.

Check everything out HERE.