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#1 YamahaV10

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Posted 05 January 2022 - 21:44

I always wanted a 1:18 scale replica Indycar or f1 car. So I made a purchase. For Indy, I wanted a speedway car and something with some name power. I ended up with this. Not the prettiest paint job by any means. But its Alonso.

2020 NTT IndyCar Series - #66 Fernando Alonso / Arrow McLaren SP

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#2 YamahaV10

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Posted 05 January 2022 - 21:48

i'd love to get this Paul Tracy Forsythe Racing CART car. Its a discontinued model from 2005. It is $200 dollars.

 

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#3 YamahaV10

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Posted 05 January 2022 - 21:55

2001 G-Force chassis :love:

 

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#4 chdphd

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Posted 05 January 2022 - 22:02

I've only got one and I don't think I've even unboxed it. 

 

1/18 Minichamps 2006 Red Bull Racing RB2 David Coulthard. Photo taken from eBay.

 

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#5 Afterburner

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Posted 05 January 2022 - 22:06

My house has a few, all in their original boxes:

• A 1:18 scale model of Michael Schumacher's F-2003
• A 1:18 scale model of Scott Dixon's Target-liveried 2016 Indy car
• A 1:18 scale "championship edition" model of Josef Newgarden's Hitachi-liveried 2019 Indy car
• A signed 1:18 scale "championship edition" model of Scott Dixon's PNC Bank-liveried 2020 Indy car (he even went out of the way to Sharpie "clag" elsewhere on the livery!)
• A 1:18 scale Indy autograph car signed by Takuma Sato, which my wife got for winning the IndyCar fantasy game's 2020 Indy 500

#6 danmills

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Posted 05 January 2022 - 22:12

I always wanted these in diecast 1:18.

 

Had the Lotus Tamiya as a very young kid and bought an onyx 1:43 Herbert at the British Grand Prix in 1994 from his mum, Jeff Gordon in 1:24 and came close to converting a Davidson BAR Monza test car. 

 

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#7 teegeefla

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Posted 05 January 2022 - 22:47

I collect and build models of cars that Dan Gurney drove.  I have had no luck getting photos to post on this website, but my collection of approximately 150 models (in all scales) can be viewed here:  

 

https://www.facebook...815317719358977

 

In 1/18 have several Exoto Cobras, Fort GT40 Mk2s and the Ford GT Mk4.

 

In Can-Am have GMP models including a 1966 Lola T-70, a 1967 Lola T-70 Mk3, the GMP McLaren M8B and the M8D, and a Ferrari 330P4.

 

In Trans-AM I have a 67 Cougar, 68 Mustang, 69 Mustang, and a 70 Barracuda.

 

In USAC I have Carousel 1 models of a 1965 Lotus 38, a 1966 Eagle, a 1967 Eagle while in F1 I have a Porsche 804 by AutoArt and an Eagle by carousel 1.

 

In World Sportscar competition I have a 1959 Ferrari 250TR, and a 1960 Maserati Birdcage by CMC which is stunning in its detail..

 

I am pretty happy with all these manufacturers, but there are errors on some models because they are based on restored vintage cars and do not have historic accuracy.  Still, I enjoy them all.


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#8 YamahaV10

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Posted 05 January 2022 - 22:59

My house has a few, all in their original boxes:

• A 1:18 scale model of Michael Schumacher's F-2003
• A 1:18 scale model of Scott Dixon's Target-liveried 2016 Indy car
• A 1:18 scale "championship edition" model of Josef Newgarden's Hitachi-liveried 2019 Indy car
• A signed 1:18 scale "championship edition" model of Scott Dixon's PNC Bank-liveried 2020 Indy car (he even went out of the way to Sharpie "clag" elsewhere on the livery!)
• A 1:18 scale Indy autograph car signed by Takuma Sato, which my wife got for winning the IndyCar fantasy game's 2020 Indy 500


Nice. Post some pics of the collection sometime. So the 2016 Dixon one must be a aero kit era car. I have the chance to buy a new aero kit era car from my dealer. Some ppl don't like the look but it's part of history.

#9 Collombin

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Posted 06 January 2022 - 21:32

I have a few Indy 500 cars in 1/18, all Carousel:-

Bill Vukovich (Kurtis) 1953
Rodger Ward (Kurtis) 1956
Jim Rathmann (Watson) 1960
AJ Foyt (Trevis) 1961
Jim Clark (Lotus) 1966
Joe Leonard (Lotus) 1968
Bill Vukovich (Eagle) 1973

Also Foyt's championship dirt car (Meskowski) from 1964.

I think any future purchases will be 1/43 though, and more likely to be sportscars than Indy stuff.

#10 brucemoxon

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Posted 07 January 2022 - 02:52

Not as many as I want, but my collection incudes:

Porsche 917K (Gulf)
several V8 Supercars from Biante and Classic Carlectables. 

1967 Bathurst winner Ford GT Classic Carlectables.

1964 Mustang x2 Classic Carlectables, including the Australian Touring Car Championship winner of Norm Beechey. 

1969 Mustang fastback x2, one of which is the Allan Moffat car. 

BMW WTCC prototype.

Bburago Porsche 365 Coupe
Bburago Bugatti Type 35 (with mudguards)

2 x Valiant Chargers - both Bathurst cars, Classic Carlectables. 
Biante pair of 1984 VK Commodore Bathurst 1000 cars - Marlboro HDT
Biante 1976 Brabham / Moss Torana

Classic Carlectables 1977 Alan Jones Lola T332 F5000

1984 Bathurst 1000 Mazda RX7 - Kavich and Alexander. (I did the media, such as it was, for this car).

1981 Bathurst 1000 Army Reserve XD Falcon.

 

 

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#11 Macca

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Posted 07 January 2022 - 09:25

I had these two but recently sold them 

 

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Jouef Ferrari P4 'prova' and 412P Le Mans 1967

 

Now I just have my signed Mercedes 300 SLR from Targa Florio 1955

 

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#12 Manfred Cubenoggin

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Posted 07 January 2022 - 12:54

Hello, Tom!  Nice to see that you're still around and posting here on TNF.

 

Re your Dan Gurney collection shown on Facebook(Meta), I believe that I see a sky-blue Lotus 23 carrying #1.  Where and when did DG race this one?

 

Also, Dan raced what I can only assume is the ex-Roger Penske Cooper Monaco at Mosport for the Player's 200 in 1963.  This is the one with the pointy rear deck fenders.  I hope that it makes it into your collection



#13 teegeefla

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Posted 07 January 2022 - 18:52

Manfred-

 

Good to hear from you...I lurk more than I post on TNF because the knowledge base on here is out of my league!

 

The Lotus 23 than Dan drove was in the 1962 Nassau Speedweeks, chassis 23-S-41.  It was purchased from the factory and immediately shipped via airplane to Nassau, but it was a scramble to get it put together and it was a DNF in the two races it contested.  I modified a Spark model to make it.

 

You are right about the Cooper Monaco that Dan raced bearing #44 at Mosport.  Interesting article here:

 

https://petrolicious...onaco-at-a-time

 

I plan on building this car at some point.  I have a K&R Cooper Monaco kit that I will probably use but it will require a lot of modification for the pointy rear fenders as well as the nose.  MA Scale Models has a kit of the car when it was the Telar Special, and I have that one but it will need some modifications as well.  All together I have about 40 more models in various scales waiting in my workshop.  I am mainly doing the 1/43 kits at this time because my fine motor skills are fading.  

 

Currently I am building the SMTS version of the 1963 Indy 500 Lotus 29s, both the #91 white w/blue car that was crashed in qualifying and the green/yellow #93 that was pressed into service  after that shunt.  I already have the race-day #93 in white/blue.  Someday I plan on doing the AMT 1/25 kit of the 29 as it looked in its preliminary test sessions at Indy and at the Ford Proving Grounds in Kingman, Arizona.  

 

I have to confess that when I started my Gurney collection 15 years ago I never imagined the wide variety of cars that he raced...I am not sure if I will ever catch up.

 

Regards,

 

Tom



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Posted 08 January 2022 - 06:32

Do you guys know my friend Phil Dauphinee here in Victoria, BC?  He has built some nice Gurney models.  I think Gurney would have loved Phil's deuce tribute coupe.  Here is a link:

 

https://public.fotki...urney-scale-ra/

 

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#15 D-Type

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Posted 08 January 2022 - 18:48

I don't have any 1:18 models - there's simply no room for them in a typically small English house.  I even have difficulty with my burgeoning 1:43 collection and some are in shoeboxes until I can find where to squeeze in a new cabinet and simultaneously keep "She, who must be obeyed" happy.

If I were limited to, say, 5 I honestly don't know which I would choose.


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#16 teegeefla

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Posted 09 January 2022 - 01:43

Do you guys know my friend Phil Dauphinee here in Victoria, BC?  He has built some nice Gurney models.  I think Gurney would have loved Phil's deuce tribute coupe.  Here is a link:

 

https://public.fotki...urney-scale-ra/

 

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I do know of Phil and his Gurney models (and many others).  We had corresponded once or twice in the past and I plan on using his model and magazine "how-to article" to build Dan's Bonneville roadster.  He is a superb builder.



#17 YamahaV10

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Posted 12 January 2022 - 05:11

My 2020 Alonso Indycar came. Looks perfect. I want to cut the bubbles out of the inside of the box so it gives a cleaner view.



#18 dmj

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Posted 12 January 2022 - 14:09

99% of my collection is in smaller scales but I do have two gorgeous Carousel 1:18 models:
1954. Indy 500 winning Kurtis of Bill Vukovich
1973. Indy 500 second placed Eagle of Bill Vukovich II
 
If I add anything to my 1:18 collection it will most probably be other Carousel Kurtis cars.


#19 YamahaV10

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Posted 16 January 2022 - 02:53

If I was rich... or single.  ;) 419 Euro. After some more digging around, this one is actually decently prices. Some brands go into the 1000's.

 

CMC Ferrari D50, 1956 long nose GP Germany #2 Collins

 

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#20 paulb

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Posted 08 February 2022 - 17:22

I have this same model as Afterburner:

  • A signed 1:18 scale "championship edition" model of Scott Dixon's PNC Bank-liveried 2020 Indy car (he even went out of the way to Sharpie "clag" elsewhere on the livery!)

​and

  • The 2018 Dixon PNC Bank championship car, so pre-Deflector Shield. It makes for an interesting comparison.
  • The 2018 Bourdais #18 SealMaster car. All three are in superspeedway configuration.
  • and the iconic #36 1967 Spa GP winning Eagle.

They keep me company at work since there is no home man-cave.



#21 Henri Greuter

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Posted 10 February 2022 - 20:12

I have tried to get et least one example of the Carousel Indycars, the version I liked the most of all of each type. I have some 8 of them nowadays.

The 500D I bought had to be the Vukovich car since I have a connection with that car after rediscovering (and help to identify) what was left of that that one in a Dutch museum.

 

Also have a few Replicars but wished I had a few more of those, Arie's winner to begin with.....

 

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Was at Indy and got the Wheldon winner, in two versions, the first one and the In memoriam.

Was at Indy in 2016 and got myself Rossi's Winner as well as what I felt to be the best looking Chevy aerokit car, Newgarden's one.