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My Hyper Cars have arrived:
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Bburago 1:43 Race - Porsche 963.
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Bburago 1:43 - Lamborghini SC63.
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Some new stuff over the last few days...
The Jaques Villeneuve collection is now taking shape
And also picked these up as well, not expensive but still very nice quality
The Jaques Villeneuve collection is now taking shape
And also picked these up as well, not expensive but still very nice quality
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First additions for 2025:
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Got this today:
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They used to be about half the price they go for nowadays. Has the quality gone up too? Don't know about that.
[Photo] Ignition 1/18 - Mazda RX-7 FD3S Rocket Bunny
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Man did I edit photos to be WAY too dark back then. My home monitor has some great colour fidelity to distinguish blacks, but basic monitors interpret all of this super dark black.
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I can't tell anything about the quality but the proportions looked wrong on most of their recent releases.They used to be about half the price they go for nowadays. Has the quality gone up too? Don't know about that.
[Photo] Ignition 1/18 - Mazda RX-7 FD3S Rocket Bunny
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Man did I edit photos to be WAY too dark back then. My home monitor has some great colour fidelity to distinguish blacks, but basic monitors interpret all of this super dark black.
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More shots of the A524:
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Detail wise I'd say Ignition is maybe a little better than the older ones, but still not really worth the $300+ USD unless you REALLY like the subject matter. Probably why I only have two of the more recent releases (MNP Nismo 400R and Feed FD3S GT3). Those two in specific seem more or less accurate, though I have not directly compared them to pictures. Anyway got this at Daytona:
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Growing up I was playing with Majorettes, didn't know about hot wheels until later....
Didn't see anything worthwhile, but For those interested:
online.flippingpages.de
Didn't see anything worthwhile, but For those interested:
Majorette Collection 2025 EN
online.flippingpages.de
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Norev 992s: There really is a 911 for everyone. You have the S/T for the twisty back-roads, the GT3 for the track and the Dakar for the trip to the nearest luxury shopping center.
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The 963 is quite pretty...
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Couple new ones:
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Here are some more recently acquired VWs for my 1/43 collection, this time it's the 3rd generation of the Golf, starting with the Cabriolet:
I also have the standard 5-door version, the GL (the one with the most equipment):
And now, the lovely Bus (or Kombi if you like it better) in its 3rd generation, a vehicle from a very important time for the brand when VW was starting to switch from air-cooled engines to water-cooled engines.
This particular version actually had both available for some time, along with the usual extensive variety of models like the previous generations before it and many equipment options to choose from... they even created a 4WD version, called the Syncro!
Wrap your head around that
I also have the standard 5-door version, the GL (the one with the most equipment):
And now, the lovely Bus (or Kombi if you like it better) in its 3rd generation, a vehicle from a very important time for the brand when VW was starting to switch from air-cooled engines to water-cooled engines.
This particular version actually had both available for some time, along with the usual extensive variety of models like the previous generations before it and many equipment options to choose from... they even created a 4WD version, called the Syncro!
Wrap your head around that
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Man the SC63 looks so good! It‘s a shame that the IRL car isn‘t more successful.
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A small batch of pics I recently took:
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@Venom800tt very nice cars you've got there!
My absolute favorite would be the Alfa Romeo Stradale... words cannot describe the beauty of that thing
My absolute favorite would be the Alfa Romeo Stradale... words cannot describe the beauty of that thing
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The 4C is already so small, can't believe how tiny that Stradale is compared to it..
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A little pearl of wisdom for you: beautiful things (also) come in small packages 🤣
They're close enough in lenght I think, but the Stradale is definitely not as wide as the 4C, and a lot lower as well.
Looks very sleek, an extremely elegant, almost delicate, space ship of the 60's!
Form and function put together in such a brilliant way, thanks to Franco Scaglione... love the fact that it doesn't even have side mirrors on the doors (but who needs to look back when you're driving this thing?! lol), or door-handles as well, something that could only be made possible 50 years ago... I've seen a few pictures of some slightly different examples having mirrors on top of the side panels, right above the wheel arches, though.
Very lightweight (700kg), with a "small" but feisty engine (2.0 liter atmospheric V8 with 230hp) capable of reaching 10.000 RPM and 5.5s from 0-60mph, this thing definitely has Alfa "DNA" flowing through its veins.
I also have a few more scale models to show you guys, and of course they're all VWs
First it's the 1971 Beetle, as used by the German Police:
And now to something out of the ordinary, something a little more obscure... the EA 266 prototype from 1969:
This was one of the many efforts made by VW to try and find a proper successor to the Beetle.
Times were changing fast during the late 60s / early 70s, and VW realized they can't go on selling the Beetle forever, as it's rapidly becoming outdated and other brands are already offering better products of the same segment that will compete directly with it... so they ask Porsche (!!!) to help them creating something a little more "modern".
However, changing what was considered a "successful recipe", with the Beetle selling millions of units, was not an easy task.
This prototype actually bears some design details that would end up being used later on, with the Golf in 1974, namely the overall shape of the rear end and the proportions between the B and C pillars.
It almost looks like a funny mashup between the 1st gen Golf with a AMC Pacer
Just by looking at it some people might think "Oh it's another boring front-wheel-drive..." well, think again.
As you can see from the absence of a front grill, this car still doesn't have the engine placed up front... strangely enough (or maybe not...), Porsche decided to place it in front of the rear axle, which makes it a mid-engine compact car.
The engine itself is not the usual air-cooled boxer, it's a 4-cylinder water-cooled engine, connected to the rear wheels, amazingly!
Sadly, this project ended up being nothing more than a waste of time and money, mostly because of the rather problematic choice of placing the engine at the back, which makes it hard to keep it cool, as well as making the service operations a lot harder to do, not to mention the levels of noise the occupants would have to endure... and on top of that, the overall handling of the car on the road wasn't the best.
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Wow I never knew VW EA ever existed!
