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February 18, 2008 Update:
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Happy New Year!
Sorry for the lack up updates so far in 2008,
but we've been busy adding hundreds of
items from our inventory to the Secure
Shopping pages on Our
Website
and waiting to give some encouraging news to
the hundreds of TMC
customers who are anxiously awaiting the
release of our long lost Can Am DVD.
In fact, to order anything mentioned in this
Email
Update, just click on the underlined link for
that item. The link will take you directly to
the correct page on the
Secure
Shopping 'Catalog'.
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An Insider's Look at the Glory Days of
Racing:'To Finish First': the autobiography of Phil Kerr, joint Managing Director of McLaren Racing during the team's glory days, has been released in New Zealand. A shipment of author signed copies is winging it's way from Down Under and will arrive at TMC in the next week or so. Nearly 400 pages long and well illustrated with photos from the personal collections of McLaren insiders and the artwork of Michael Turner, this is the most comprehensive book yet on the McLaren Can Am, Grand Prix and Indianapolis 500 programs of that era. Phil Kerr joined boyhood friend Bruce McLaren and mentor Jack Brabham in England in the spring of 1959. During a 17 year European racing career Kerr played an essential role in the success of both the Brabham and McLaren racing teams, first as a Director of the Brabham Racing Organisation, then as joint Managing Director and Director of Formula One at McLaren Racing during the time when McLaren became one of the dominant powers in international motor racing. Should be a great read. $89.50 plus shipping. Click on the title to order.
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In other book news, Automobile
Year #55 (2007/08) has arrived from
Europe and is now in stock for immediate
delivery. $85.00 plus shipping.
Other in-stock 2007 Annuals include:
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Only a few copies of the 2008 Motor Sport Magazine Calendar remain from this year's shipment. The 2008 Calendar is entitled 'The Magic of Monaco' and presents 13 fabulous black and white Rainer Schlegelmilch images taken at various Monaco Grands Prix from the 60's to modern day. A Limited Edition of only 1000 individually numbered calendars was produced this year. Each photo is suitable for framing when the year is over. $75.00 plus shipping
New Diecast Announcements:
Here are some of the highlights:
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Carousel 1: Carousel starts the year
off with a bang, announcing a 1/18 scale
replica of Dan
Gurney's 1967 Brands Hatch Race of Champions
winning Eagle Weslake V-12
Formula One car ($159.95) to be
released next
month.
The Brands Hatch winner - Eagle Chassis 102 -
was the first Formula
One Eagle to be fitted with the Weslake V-12
engine and was the aluminum
chassis predecessor to the titanium Eagle
that would win the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa
a few months later.
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CMC: Perhaps the most exciting lineup
for 2008 comes, not surprisingly, from CMC of
Germany. Shown here is a mockup of their
1/18 scale Ferrari 156 'Sharknose' Grand Prix
car. Three different versions are planned,
two Phil
Hill GP winning cars and a Wolfgang von Trips
driven machine. CMC also plans on releasing
an all new 1958 Ferrari Testa Rossa, 4
different versions of the original Porsche
911 (originally designated the 901) from 1964
and new versions of existing Mercedes and
Auto Union racing cars. You can check out the
full lineup HERE.
Minichamps: More than 300 new models across several scales were announced by Minichamps for release over the next couple of years. You can check out the complete list HERE. We did not include the estimated release dates supplied by Minichamps since they are usually unreliable. We are accepting orders on the whole range. Pick out what you like and be patient. They're usually worth the wait.
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GMP: Perhaps one of the most beautful racing cars of all time was the Ferrari 330 P4 campaigned by the Scuderia Ferrari and their customers during the 1967 World Sports Car Championship. GMP has announced a giant 1/8 scale ultra high detail P4 for release under their Real Art Replicas nameplate this spring: The open - top P4 driven to a second place finish at Brands Hatch (behind the Chaparral 2F) by Jackie Stewart and Chris Amon has been chosen for release by GMP. This finish clinched the 1967 World Championship for Ferrari, beating Porsche for the title by just one point. The giant P4s are priced at $3.995.00 and will be produced in a Limited Edition of 330. We have additional photos HERE. You can place an order HERE. A 1/18 scale version of the Stewart / Amon P4, featuring over 700 individual parts will also be produced by GMP for release this summer. Price is expected to be in the under $300 range. You can place your order for the 1/18 scale version HERE.
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