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Acme Trading has announced a Fall 2018 release for a #42 Swede Savage 1970 Trans Am AAR ‘Cuda in 1/18 scale to go along with their very popular (and nearly sold out) #48 Dan Gurney version.
$139.95 – Reserve HERE
1/18 scale Diecast by Acme Trading Co..
The Vel’s Parnelli Jones funny car began its life as a ‘69 Barracuda bodied Funny Car which Big John Mazmanian had traded his Willys gasser for. Mazmanian raced it with Danny Ongais behind the wheel. Indy car and off-road racing icon Parnelli Jones bought the ’Cuda Funny Car, and along with partner dealership Vel’s Ford, campaigned it through 1974 with Ongais continuing as driver. Following a fire they switched to a Mustang body more befitting a Ford dealership-sponsored race car. Because of Parnelli’s connection to Firestone, the racer served as a test vehicle for new drag slick designs. When Ongais left in 1974 to go Indy car racing the Funny Car was parked and the dragster was sold. Due to changing technology the car was obsolete by 1975 and went unsold. It sat for many years on display outside a Firestone dealer in Huntington Beach, California. Eventually it made its way back to Parnelli’s shop, occasionally showing up with an exhibit of his race cars. In 2013, it was donated to NHRA Museum, where it is proudly displayed today.
FUTURE RELEASE – FALL 2018 RELEASE PLANNED
ESTIMATED PRODUCTION 996 PIECES
$119.95 – Reserve HERE
Our remaining 2017 Penske Indycars from Greenlight are now 25% off!
The latest new product announcement from Looksmart includes a selection of Ferrari 312B Grand Prix winners from 1970, five Launch, Le Mans and Mille Miglia versions of the Alfa Romeo 6C 3000 CM from 1953 and the new 2017 McLaren 720S in assorted flavors.
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Advance order deadline is May 30.
We’re featuring great new / old stock items from our inventory on a ‘Buried Treasure‘ list, with prices set earlier in the century.
More items added regularly. Check it out!
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POWER, POLITICS, AND THE MAKING OF AN AUTOMOTIVE EMPIRE
by Luca Dal Monte Foreword by Luca di Montezemolo
Until now, no biography has truly captured the entire scope of Enzo Ferrari’s remarkable life and its impact on automobiles, motor racing, and Italian industry and culture. Drawing on more than a decade of original research, author Luca Dal Monte uncovers a wealth of new facts about Ferrari’s origins, ambitions, business practices and private life.
The book revisits all the highlights of Ferrari’s rise to greatness: his driving career in the 1920s; his management of racing teams for Alfa Romeo in the 1930s; the launch of his own company and team in the late 1940s; and his unprecidented successes building cars for the road and race track in the following decades. But it also examines lesser-known and sometimes hidden aspects of Ferrari’s career, from his earliest failed business ventures to his political dealings with Italy’s Fascist government, Allied occupiers, and even Communist leaders. It also lays bare the internal politics of the Ferrari company and team, both led by a man who manipulated employees, drivers, competitors, and the media with a volitile mixture of brute force, paranoia, and guile. And it sheds new light on Ferrari’s personal relationships with women – most notably his wife Laura and longtime mistress Lina Lardi – as well as the tragic death of one son and the long-unacknowledged birthright of another.
The Ferrari that emerges from these pages is an extremely complex man – one who could be ruthless and unashamedly vulgar, but also unexpectedly vulnerable. But no matter what challenges he faced in business, at home, or on the race track, Ferrari never lost his essential optimism and unwavering faith in himself.
This is the definitive biography of Enzo Ferrari, one that makes previous accounts obsolete. As a native Italian and longtime Ferrari employee, Luca Dal Monte gained access to public and private archives and conducted scores of interviews with members of Ferrari’s inner circle, as well as reviewing the personal papers of Enzo Ferrari and many other insiders.
Hardbound | 954 pages | 100 b&w, 33 color photos
$49.95 – Order HERE