Friday, August 21, 2009

1991 Chevrolet Beretta GTZ AMT 1:25











The Chevrolet Beretta is a front-wheel-drive two-door coupé produced by Chevrolet from 1987 to 1996. The Beretta was designed in the same design studio as the Camaro and the Corvette, Chevrolet Exterior Studio 3, and was built at the Wilmington, Delaware, and Linden, New Jersey assembly plants with other GM L platform models, the Chevrolet Corsica which came shortly before the Beretta, and the Canada-only Pontiac Tempest four-door sedans. The Beretta was produced in base, CL, GT, GTU, Indy, GTZ and Z26 models. A convertible was the pace car for the 1990 Indianapolis 500, and GM initially announced a production convertible replica, but a coupe version was offered instead.

Friday, August 14, 2009

1982 Citroën 2CV 6 Charleston 1:24 Welly











The Citroën 2CV (French: deux chevaux or deux chevaux-vapeur, pronounced [dø ʃ(ə)vo (vapœʁ)], lit. "two steam horses", "two tax horsepower") is an air-cooled front-engine, front-wheel-drive, economy family car, introduced at the 1948 Paris Mondial de l'Automobile, and manufactured by Citroën for model years 1948–1990.

Conceived by Citroën Vice-President Pierre Boulanger to help motorise the large number of farmers still using horses and carts in 1930s France, the 2CV has a combination of innovative engineering and utilitarian, straightforward metal bodywork—initially corrugated for added strength without added weight. The 2CV featured low cost, simplicity of overall maintenance, an easily serviced air-cooled engine (originally offering 9 hp), low fuel consumption, and an extremely long-travel suspension offering a soft ride and light off-road capability.

Often called "an umbrella on wheels", the fixed-profile convertible bodywork featured a full-width, canvas, roll-back sunroof, which accommodated oversized loads, and until 1955 even stretched to cover the car's trunk, reaching almost down to the car's rear bumper.

Michelin introduced and first commercialised the revolutionary new radial tyre design with the introduction of the 2CV.

Manufactured between 1948 and 1990, more than 3.8 million 2CVs were produced, making it the world's first front-wheel drive car to become a million seller, after Citroën's own, more upscale Traction Avant was the first front-wheel drive car to sell in six-figure numbers. The 2CV platform spawned many variants, as detailed in the "Production numbers" section. The 2CV and its variants are collectively known as the A-Series. Notably these include the 2CV-based delivery vans known as fourgonnettes, the Ami, the Dyane, the Acadiane, and the Mehari. In total, Citroën manufactured over 9 million of the 2CVs and its derivative models.

A 1953 technical review in Autocar described "the extraordinary ingenuity of this design, which is undoubtedly the most original since the Model T Ford". In 2011, The Globe and Mail called it a "car like no other". The motoring writer L. J. K. Setright described the 2CV as "the most intelligent application of minimalism ever to succeed as a car", and a car of "remorseless rationality".

Both the design and the history of the 2CV mirror the Volkswagen Beetle in significant ways. Conceived in the 1930s, to make motorcars affordable to regular people for the first time in their countries, both went into large scale production in the late 1940s, featuring air-cooled boxer engines at the same end as their driven axle, omitting a length-wise drive shaft, riding on exactly the same 2,400 mm (94.5 in) wheelbase, and using a platform chassis to facilitate the production of derivative models. Just like the Beetle, the 2CV became not only a million seller, but also one of the few cars in history to continue a single generation in production for over four decades.

Friday, August 7, 2009

2000 Ford Focus Rally WRC Burago 1:24











El Ford Focus WRC es un vehículo de rally basado en el Ford Focus con homologación World Rally Car. Fue diseñado y construido por Ford en conjunto con la empresa británica M-Sport y fue utilizado por el equipo Ford World Rally Team en el Campeonato Mundial de Rally durante los años 1999 y 2010 en sustitución del Ford Escort WRC, automóvil que había sido el primer modelo World Rally Car de la marca y con el que había competido entre 1997 y 1998. Hizo su debut en el Rally de Montecarlo de 1999, participó durante doce años como oficial en un total de ciento setenta y tres pruebas logrando cuarenta y cuatro victorias, ciento cuarenta y ocho podios y dos títulos de constructores, en 2006 y 2007. Se construyó sobre el chasis de la primera y la segunda generación del modelo de serie y contó con diez evoluciones diferentes. Su última aparición oficial fue en el Rally de Gran Bretaña de 2010 y en 2011 el equipo Ford lo sustituyó por el Ford Fiesta RS WRC.

Además del equipo oficial también fue utilizado por varios equipos privados como el Stobart M-Sport Ford Rally Team.

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

1997 Sprint Car Greg Hodnett (RIP) Selma Racing 1:24












Greg Hodnett
Piloto de carreras
Nacimiento: 18 de junio de 1969, Memphis, Tennessee, Estados Unidos
Fallecimiento: 20 de septiembre de 2018, BAPS Motor Speedway, Pensilvania, Estados Unidos
Cónyuge: Sherry Hodnett (m. ?–2018)
Hijos: Ashley Koontz, Jeremy Barnes, David Herbst, Jr.
Padres: Hoyette Arlington Hodnett, Jr., Mona Jean Hodnett
Hermanos: Shelia Dalrymple, Donna Coleman

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

1999 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am Motormax 1:24











The fourth-generation Firebird amplified the aerodynamic styling initiated by the previous generation. While the live rear axle and floorpan aft of the front seats remained largely the same, ninety percent of the Firebird's parts were all-new. Overall, the styling of the Firebird more strongly reflected the Banshee IV concept car than the 1991 "facelift" did. As with the Camaro, major improvements included standard dual airbags, four-wheel anti-lock brakes, 16-inch wheels, rack-and-pinion power steering, short/long-arm front suspension, and several non-rusting composite body panels. Throughout its fourth generation, trim levels included V6-powered Firebird, and V8-powered Formula and Trans Am. Standard manual transmissions were the T5 five-speed manual for the V6s, Borg-Warner's T56 six-speed manual for the V8s. The 4L60 four-speed automatic was optional for both in 1993, becoming the 4L60E with built-in electronic controls in 1994.