There are many ways to express personal passion for cars. Some people work as engineers, managers and marketers for the world's car companies, others spend their time working and building cars either for themselves or for others, or some like myself are involved with automotive media and spend their time shooting and writing about all things automobile
Remember how fantastic childhood birthdays were? I remember I used to have huge parties when I was a child, perhaps just so I could get more presents! These days though it's slim pickings for birthday presents, which is probably why I normally buy myself a little treat each year. This self-present is normally always a die cast model or a motorsports
I'm sure a lot of you folks collect die-casts of varying forms and would be interested to take a quick tour of a model shop located in Maranello, Italy no? "Warm-Up" is located right across the parking lot from the Ferrari Museum, some 200 odd meters from the factory. Maranello appears to be a bit of a holy pilgrimage for hardcore Ferrari
I find at most big racing events, the bits of car culture you see in the paddock and spectator areas are often just as interesting as the on-track action. It's here that you can get up close with the unique qualities of local automotive scenes. Sometimes when I'm wandering about these spectator areas I'll come across something that I will
2009 for a lot of people, myself included, has gotten off to a bit of a poor start. It seems that every day brings more bad news: the world economy is in a meltdown, people are losing their jobs, their homes and we're not sure if several of the world's automotive companies will last the spring. It's all doom and gloom isn't it? So when
The Schnitzer Group 5 Celica Turbo, in my mind, is an old race car with a bit of an unusual status. This historical Toyota was a rather unsuccessful attempt by the Schnitzer team to build a race car to take on the might of the Porsche 935. Now history is littered by race cars which went up against the mighty 935 and failed.... Most of these cars are
I think it's fair to say, most of us spend a lot of time dreaming of all the different cars we'd like to drive, build and own...... Unfortunately though, unless your name is Jay Leno, it's probably these automotive imaginings will likely just remain pipe dreams. After all, it's not completely practical to have a garage filled with 200
Most guys I know have something they like to collect... comic books, urban vinyls, Le Mans annuals, magazines, kicks, rare Japanese rims... Name any type of object produced in some kind of series, and you'll likely find someone that spends their extra money building up a collection. Now, I wouldn't particularly classify myself as a serious collector
With all the hype surrounding the new Dodge Challenger, it's the perfect time to enjoy some retro Mopar coolness. I saw this new '69 Dodge Superbee resin model from Bent Rod Garage on Jae Bueno's blog and I thought it was one of the coolest collectables I have seen in a long time. The models are inspired by the famous Dodge "Scat Pack"