Gayle & Peter Brock

We started the year with a very prestigious award. Peter Brock's book on his years at GM Styling, which includes his '57 sketch which became the Corvette Sting Ray, won the Motor Press Guild's Book of the Year award as well as their Dean Bachelor Award, which is the best piece across all categories such as film articles, photography, books, etc.  

Brock's idea for a holiday special is to offer you a 30% discount on his book when purchasing other items on the BRE website. Buy any piece of apparel, art, poster or archive photograph and you get a $20 discount off the book. Just go to the website here and when purchasing any eligible product you'll see the option to purchase the book with the discount.

If you'd like to hear more about the book, you can see Jay Leno's interview with Brock here.

We've been trying to make it to this show for years. With leaving our photojournalism duties behind, we were able to keep the weekend free in order to attend this year.  

What a show! We knew it was great but it was fantastic. What a setting for more than one hundred Datsuns to be on display to an enthusiastic crowd. Being managed by the great organizer, Chris Breyer, you can already find the dates and registration information here for another great show next year, April 24-25, 2015. 

We continue to be surprised by how many interview requests we still receive regarding BRE's days of racing Hinos (BRE/Brock raced Hinos from '66-68) and BRE's Hino transporter which was used from BRE's Hino racing days through the '69 and '70 Datsun Roadster and 240Z race seasons. 

Brock is very proud of the 1:43rd scale Ebbro models of the sensational Brock-designed BRE Hino Samurai which appeared at the 1967 Japanese Grand Prix with acting star Toshiro Mifune being BRE's honorary team manager (autographed model seen above).

Our hat supplier discontinued our navy blue with red trim hats so when preparing for ZCON 2014 in August in San Diego, we had to come up with a new hat. We had four samples of different hats made up and we let you decide via voting on the bre.datsun facebook page which hat would be the new BRE Hat. You can order the winning, new black with red trim hat here (and ordering a hat makes you eligible to purchase Brock's Corvette Sting Ray book at a $20 discount. Just select that option when getting the hat). 

A Different Monterey Experience

Brock's presentations and panel appearance at the Monterey Automotive Film Festival was highlighted by Robert Johnson bringing his BRE Tribute #85 510 into town. The moment the organizers spotted the head turner they were waving Robert up to the entrance where they removed the parking cones and the car took center stage. And for good reason!  It quickly drew a crowd, including Brock checking out the engine compartment with Robert and several photo takers. 

We finally have some solid news to share. The 1:18 scale resin model of the BRE #46 510 will be the first BRE 510 model released. It is on its way to production with an estimated arrival date of sometime in January. Price will be $120. Bummer it won't be here for the end of December holidays.  We shy away from taking pre-orders, especially when we have no box art to show you.  We have however reviewed and approved every component of the models and have some good photos of the final pieces. And as other vendors will soon be taking pre-orders, we will too.  

You can see a nice variety of images of the model here. We will also offer a special edition of the model, numbered (e.g. 01/46) and signed by John Morton and Peter Brock. Note: Special Editions will take a little longer to ship once they arrive as we have to obtain Brock and Morton's autographs. These will be offered at $199 and can be ordered here (select *Special Edition*), while they last.

Reminder... these will NOT arrive in time for the holidays.  Soonest shipment date is sometime in January. 

The Japanese Car Classic in Long Beach was the perfect opportunity for us to unveil the newly restored '71 BRE 240Z. It was an amazing day meeting hundreds of great fans! Pictures of the full restoration were posted on a regular basis on the bre.datsun facebook page and can still be seen there.  

BRE offered a new BRE 240Z Legends shirt here for the unveiling, a few of which are still available here. Below you'll see a holiday special to get Peter Brock's autograph on our discontinued shirts. We've extended that special to include the BRE 240Z Legends shirt so you can display it as well.

First there was the HotWheels Redline model of the BRE Datsun 510 last December selling out in a few days. Then the Revell BRE Datsun 510 model kits arrived in June and they went quick. Latest was the HotWheels Redline model of the BRE Datsun 240Z which sold out in just a few hours (selling on ebay now for over $1000).  

With any of our special edition, limited number models we ask that you order just one for yourself and at most a second one for a friend or relative. By the request of many of our followers, we will pull/cancel orders that look like they are for resale so everyone gets a fair chance to have one of these models for their personal collection.  If you have any questions or want to let us know that your order is legit, always feel free to e-mail us here or call 702-558-3374.