Tuesday, January 28, 2014

1983 Ford Thunderbird #90 Junie Donlavey Chameleon Racing Collectables 1:64













Wesley Christian "Junie" Donlavey Jr. (April 8, 1924 – June 9, 2014), a native of Richmond, Virginia, was the owner of Donlavey Racing; he began fielding the team in 1950. He drove for his team at first, but soon gave way to other drivers. Donlavey earned a reputation as working well with young drivers over his tenure, as Ken Schrader and Jody Ridley won NASCAR Rookie of the Year honors while driving for Donlavey. Donlavey served in the United States Navy during the 1940s. Afterwards, Donlavey started his own auto repair business, and began to develop an interest in racing. He was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 2007.
Donlavey closed his racing team after the 2004 season when Andy Hillenburg failed to qualify for the Daytona 500; in 2006, he stated that he still had several cars in his race shop, but was in the process of selling them and had no plans to return to racing. He died in Richmond, Virginia on June 9, 2014.
Donlavey was honoured shortly after his death by the Sprint Cup Garage at Richmond International Raceway being named the Wesley C. Donlavey Garage. At the September 2014 Cup race in Richmond, team owner Joe Fal changed the number of his Circle Sport car from 33 to 90 and used a retro paint scheme similar to Donlavey's Truxmore-sponsored cars. The deck lid contained the names of the 67 drivers who raced for Donlavey. Falk considered Donlavey a mentor.

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

2011 Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4 Maisto 1:18












The Lamborghini Aventador is a mid-engined sports car produced by the Italian manufacturer Lamborghini.
Launched on 28 February 2011 at the Geneva Motor Show, five months after its initial unveiling in Sant'Agata Bolognese, the vehicle, internally codenamed LB834, was designed to replace the ten-year-old Murciélagoas the new flagship model.
Soon after the Aventador unveiling, Lamborghini announced that it had already sold over 12 of the production vehicles, with deliveries starting in the second half of 2011. By June 2013, Lamborghini had already built 2,000 Aventadors, taking two years to achieve this milestone.

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

1992 JP Staff Jeep Wrangler Jada 1:24 Jurassic Park











The Jeep Wrangler YJ is the first generation of Jeep Wrangler four-wheel drive small off-road vehicles, rebadging and succeeding Jeep's CJ series, which was produced from 1944 to 1986. The first Wrangler (internally "YJ") was launched in 1986 and ran through 1995. Although the new Wrangler stood out from its CJ predecessors by its square headlights, its body was a direct evolution of the preceding CJ-7, and rode on the same wheelbase. The Wrangler featured an updated interior, offered more comfort and improved safety and handling, through a revised chassis that included a wider track and a slightly lower stance.

Development of a potential CJ-7 replacement was green-lit in 1982, with engineering and design work (under Chuck Mashigan) commencing. After approval earlier in 1983, a final design freeze occurred by the fall of 1983, with CJ-7 based mules being built in late 1983 and the first production body test prototypes in the spring of 1984. By late 1985, development concluded, as the transition from pilot to series production began. In February 1986 the 1987 model year Jeep Wrangler was unveiled. It entered production that March and went on sale on May 13, 1986.

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

2006 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon Maisto 1:18












From Wikipedia:
El Jeep Wrangler es un popular automóvil todoterreno fabricado por la compañía estadounidense FCA Group (Fiat Chrysler Automobiles) y vendido bajo la marca Jeep. Es el sucesor del Jeep CJ, la versión civil del Willys MB, un vehículo militar utilizado por el ejército de Estados Unidos en la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

El Wrangler abarca tres generaciones distintas, denominadas internamente YJ, TJ y JK y lanzadas en los años 1987, 1997 y 2007 respectivamente. Desde 1987 hasta 1992 el Wrangler fue fabricado en Brampton, Ontario, Canadá, desde cuando el Wrangler se fabrica en Toledo (Ohio), Estados Unidos.

El nombre "Wrangler" no se usó en Canadá, porque era un nivel de equipamiento de una camioneta de Chevrolet en aquel mercado. Sin embargo, desde 1987 hasta 1995 fueron vendidos con el sobrenombre de "YJ" y desde 1997 hasta 2006 como "TJ".

Los modelos actuales son el Wrangler 2-door JL y el Wrangler 4-door JL.