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Modelcar Group Lauda Ferrari 312T2 1:18 scale
Modelcar Group Lauda Ferrari 312T2 1:18 scale
Modelcar Group Lauda Ferrari 312T2 1:18 scale

Diecast Review: ModelCar Group Niki Lauda Ferrari 312T2 1:18 scale

So Max chalks up a back to back win at Zandvoort! While the 2022 Dutch GP circuit isn’t as raw as it old layout, it had some great winners in the late 70’s and early 80’s including the wily Niki Lauda in the b...
 
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2020 review – COVID and F1 diecast and book values

Looking back at 2020, it’s certainly been an overwhelming year with COVID outbreaks globally. Similar to the market shift to online retail and the surge in demand for home based goods – I think COVID has definitely re-inv...

 
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mansell senna taxi minichamps 1:43
mansell senna taxi minichamps 1:43
mansell senna taxi minichamps 1:43

A brief look at Minichamps F1 “taxi” cars

After noticing recent eBay resales of the famous Senna taxi by Minichamps in 1:18 scale (Nigel Mansell’s Williams Renault FW14 giving Ayrton Senna a lift at the 1991 British Grand Prix) fetching consistently EUR250+, I thought ...
 
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F1 world championship diecasts

I received an email from a reader in Singapore asking about the various F1 world championship winning cars available in diecast (or resin for Spark models). Seems like this would be something useful to share with other collecto...

 
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Hotwheels Alonso Ferrari F10 1:18
Hotwheels Alonso Ferrari F10 1:18
Hotwheels Alonso Ferrari F10 1:18

1:18 diecast review: Hotwheels Ferrari F10

Well Fernando’s Ferrari project is now over (at least for 2015) but it did start in fine form with a first up win for the Scuderia in the 2010 Bahrain GP  in the elongated shark finned bar-coded Ferrari F10. Hotwheels had...
 
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F1 Diecast Review: Quartzo 1:18 scale Jim Clark Lotus 49

Time for a 1:18 diecast review. Although, Exoto 1:18 Lotus GP cars are highly sought after collectors’ items in the secondary market, especially the beautiful Lotus 72D (Fittipaldi & Peterson models) and the Lotus 49 ...