Monday, November 21, 2011

1970 Pontiac Firebird Trans-Am 1:24 Johnny Lightning.












The Pontiac Firebird is an American automobile that was built and produced by Pontiac from the 1967 to 2002 model years. Designed as a pony car to compete with the Ford Mustang, it was introduced on February 23, 1967, simultaneous with GM's Chevrolet division platform-sharing Camaro. This also coincided with the release of the 1967 Mercury Cougar, Ford's upscale, platform-sharing version of the Mustang.

The name "Firebird" was also previously used by GM for the General Motors Firebird in the 1950s and early 1960s concept cars.

Monday, November 14, 2011

1993 Mazda RX-7 1:24 Johnny Tran The Fast And The Furious Joy Ride











El Mazda RX-7 es un automóvil deportivo producido por el fabricante japonés Mazda Motor Corporation (マツダ株式会社 Matsuda Kabushiki-gaisha?) entre los años 1978 y 2002. Rivalizaba con otros deportivos asequibles, como el Toyota Supra, el Honda NSX, la línea Nissan Fairlady Z y el Nissan Skyline.

El RX-7 era un reemplazo directo para el Mazda RX-4 y todos los deportivos con motor Wankel de la gama de Mazda, con excepción del Mazda Cosmo.

Podía ser biplaza o de cuatro plazas, según el mercado, con carrocería coupé de dos puertas. También hubo una versión cabriolet, únicamente disponible en la segunda generación.

Monday, November 7, 2011

1966 Chevy Nova Hot Wheels 1:64








From Fandom:
The '66 Chevy Nova is a Hot Wheels casting designed by Phil Riehlman which debuted in the 2007 New Models. It was based on the production car of the same name.

Friday, October 28, 2011

The Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR (W196S) 1955 Mille Miglia Escala 1:18 Maisto












The Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR (W196S) was a 2-seat sports racer that took part in the 1955 World Sportscar Championship before a catastrophic crash and fire at Le Mans later that year ended its domination prematurely.

Designated "SL-R" (for Sport Leicht-Rennen, eng: Sport Light-Racing, later condensed to "SLR"), the 3-litre engine was derived from the company's Mercedes-Benz W196 Formula One racer. It shared most of its drivetrain and chassis with the 196's fuel-injected 2,496.87 cc straight 8 bored and stroked to 2,981.70 cc and boosted to 310 bhp (230 kW).

The W196s monoposto driving position was modified to standard two-abreast seating, headlights were added, and a few other changes made to adapt a strictly track competitor to a 24-hour road/track sports racer.

Two of the nine 300 SLR rolling chassis produced were converted into 300 SLR/300 SL hybrids. Effectively road legal racers, they had coupé styling, gull-wing doors, and a footprint midway between the two models.

When Mercedes cancelled its racing programme after the Le Mans disaster, the hybrid project was shelved. Company design chief Rudolf Uhlenhaut, architect of both the 300 SLR racer and the hybrids, appropriated one of the leftover mules as his personal driver. Capable of approaching 290 km/h (180 mph), the Uhlenhaut Coupé was far and away the fastest road car in the world in its day.

Friday, October 21, 2011

1993 Chevrolet Montecarlo Nascar Terry Labonte Racing Champions 1:24









Terrance Lee Labonte (born November 16, 1956) is an American former stock car driver who raced from 1978 to 2014 in the former NASCAR Winston Cup and Sprint Cup Series (now called the NASCAR Cup Series). A two-time Cup Series champion and 1989 IROC champion, he is the older brother of 2000 Cup Series champion Bobby Labonte, and the father of former Nationwide Series driver Justin Labonte. He also co-owns a Chevrolet dealership in Greensboro, North Carolina with Rick Hendrick. He appeared on the CBS series The Dukes of Hazzard in 1984, where he played an unnamed pit crew member. After leaving Hagan Racing in 1993, Terry Labonte was signed to Hendrick Motorsports in 1994, where he began driving the No. 5 Kellogg's-sponsored Chevrolet Lumina. In 1995, the team switched to Chevrolet Monte Carlos and won three races including the fall Goody's 500 event at Bristol, where the front of Labonte's car was wrecked after Dale Earnhardt crashed into him in the final lap. In 1996, he broke Richard Petty’s streak for consecutive races after winning at North Wilkesboro. Despite only two victories, Labonte went on to win the championship, a record-setting twelve years after his first. Driving with a broken hand during the last two races of the season, Labonte and his younger brother Bobby were able to perform a dual victory lap at Atlanta Motor Speedway in the last race of the season; Bobby won the race and Terry won the championship on this race, making it the only time a driver and his sibling won the race and the championship at the same time.