Janet Guthrie 1976 Kelly Girl Chevy #68 Laguna 1:64 NASCAR

Janet Guthrie (born March 7, 1938) is a retired professional race car driver and the first woman to qualify and compete in both the Indianapolis 500 and the Daytona 500.

Guthrie was originally an aerospace engineer and after graduating from the University of Michigan, she worked with Republic Aviation. She began racing in 1963 on the SCCA circuit in a Jaguar XK140 and by 1972, she was racing on a full-time basis. Her sportscar racing career included two class wins in the famed 12 Hours of Sebring endurance race.

In the 1976 World 600, Guthrie finished 15th, becoming the first woman to compete in a NASCAR Winston Cup superspeedway race. Guthrie would go on to compete in four more races that season. The following season, she competed in her first Daytona 500, finishing 12th when her car's engine blew two cylinders with ten laps to go. For the race, though, she still earned the honor of Top Rookie. Overall, Guthrie went on to compete in 33 races in NASCAR over four seasons. Her highest finish, sixth place at Bristol in 1977, is the best finish by a woman in a top-tier NASCAR race, now currently tied with Danica Patrick in 2014.

Guthrie qualified for and competed in the 1977 Indianapolis 500, in a car entered by Rolla Vollstedt, but finished 29th with engine troubles. She would compete in two more Indy 500s, finishing ninth in the 1978 race while driving with a fractured wrist (injured in a charity tennis event two days earlier) she hid from race officials. Overall, she competed in 11 Indy car events with a best finish of fifth. During her unsuccessful bid to qualify for the 1976 race, many of the drivers in the male-dominated sport stated that the reason she did not qualify was mainly due to her gender. These comments angered then three-time champion A. J. Foyt to the point he lent Guthrie a back-up car to conduct a shake-down test. Her top practice lap in Foyt's car would have been adequate to qualify for the field. She was unable to obtain funding through corporate sponsorship, and was forced into retirement.

Nevertheless, Guthrie's place in history was secure. In 1979, the Supersisters trading card set was produced and distributed; one of the cards featured Guthrie's name and picture.[8] Her helmet and race suit can be found in the Smithsonian Institution and Guthrie was one of the first elected to the International Women's Sports Hall of Fame. She was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame on April 27, 2006. Her 2005 autobiography, Janet Guthrie: A Life at Full Throttle, has received critical praise in such publications as Sports Illustrated.

Guthrie married Warren Levine, an airline pilot, in 1989. He died in 2006.

In 2011, Guthrie signed a petition in support of the right of women in Saudi Arabia to drive. The petition called on Saudi King Abdullah to sponsor a Saudi Women's Grand Prix. The project was the idea of human rights activist David Keyes.

Qualified, an episode of ESPN 30 for 30 covering her racing career, aired on May 28, 2019. In it she is quoted "You can go back to antiquity to find women doing extraordinary things, but their history is forgotten. Or denied to have ever existed. So women keep reinventing the wheel. Women have always done these things, and they always will."

In 2019, Guthrie was inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame for her achievements in motorsports. She is the 5th woman to be inducted.

1966 Mercedes-Benz 280SE Cabriolet Maisto 1:18

From Wikipedia:

The Mercedes-Benz W111 was a chassis code given to a range of Mercedes-Benz vehicles produced between 1959 and 1971, including four-door saloons (1959-1968) and two-door coupés and cabriolets (1961 to 1971). Their bodywork featured distinctive tailfins that gave the models their Heckflosse nickname — German for "fintail".

Introduced with a 2.2-litre inline 6-cylinder engine, the W111 spawned a pair of variant lines which bracketed it in 1961: downscale entry-level inline 4-cylinder engined vehicles sharing the W111 chassis and bodies, designated the W110; and the W112, a high-end luxury saloon built on the W111 chassis with its body but exclusive features, elaborate appointments, and the Mercedes-Benz 300d Adenauer's fuel-injected 3-litre M189 six-cylinder engine – at the time the company's largest.

Somewhat confusingly, both the W111 and W112 lines included vehicles with different Paul Bracq-designed bodywork, the 2-door coupé and cabriolet.

2000 Chevrolet SSR Concept Maisto 1:24

 

La Chevrolet SSR que en el año 2000 es un modelo concepto pasa a ser un modelo de fabricación para el cunsumidor en el 2004. Muy alta de valor por cierto.

Mucho ruido y pocas nueces:
No hay mejor forma de describir el Chevy SSR 2004 que con este refrán popular. Y es que tanto esmero que sus diseñadores pusieron en él, que se olvidaron de dotarlo adecuadamente para que fuera tan rápido y deportivo como su forma sugería. Para sus conductores era un tipo de coche lento y seguro, que poco se identificaba con la imagen que intentaba vender. Como resultado, solo duró unos meses en el mercado antes de que fuera retirado y catalogado como fracaso. ¡Ouch!

The Fast Gassin Hot Wheels 1:64

From Fandom:
 The Fast Gassin is a Hot Wheels original model designed by John Violette. It is based on a heavy tanker truck. It has eight massive exhausts sticking out above the cab. In 2016 the casting underwent a major casting change: it lost its double rear axle. The side panel was extended.

The casting was retooled again in 2018, with the casting using slightly more metal on the door panel and the interior piece and smokestacks now being made part of the exterior tank.

Of note is that there is a minor error on the 2016 release's card; the first color shows the casting having three axles on the card (despite it only having two). This was corrected for the second release

1967 Ford Mustang Shelby GT-500 Johnny Lightning 1:24

El Ford Shelby es un Automóvil deportivo, Muscle car y Pony car variante del Ford Mustang fabricado por Shelby de 1965 a 1968, y de 1969 a 1970 por Ford. Después de la introducción del Ford Mustang de quinta generación en 2005, la placa de identificación de Shelby fue revivida como un nuevo modelo de alto rendimiento, esta vez diseñado y construido por Ford.

Para 1967, el G.T. 350 cargó el K-Code de alto rendimiento 289 con un aluminio 'COBRA' hilvanado. El G.T. 500 fue agregado a la alineación, equipado con un motor V8 "Ford Cobra Serie FE" de 428 plg3, con dos carburadores de cuatro cañones Holley de 600 CFM, sentado sobre un colector de admisión de aluminio de media altura.

Los planes documentados para introducir un año de producción media convertible se archivaron debido a problemas de suministro, producción y financieros que sucedieron tan pronto como los primeros autos comenzaron a llegar a las instalaciones de Shelby en Los Ángeles en septiembre. En octubre de 1966, Ford tomó el control de la ingeniería y la compra.​ A.O. Smith fue golpeado para reparar el accesorio de fibra de vidrio. y problemas de calidad. Seis meses después, en mayo de 1967, se tomó la decisión de terminar la operación de Shelby, con sede en California. El 18 de agosto de 1967, un pequeño personal, junto con los restantes coches de ingeniería, fue enviado a Ionia. El pequeño personal de la recién formada Shelby Automotive, Inc. tuvo sustancialmente menos participación después de este tiempo.