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5 (Other) Great Gift ideas for Diecast Collectors

It goes without saying that diecast collectors will want more diecast as gifts over the holiday season. But we are a particular bunch, and it can be hard for non-collectors to know what specific models we have, what we need, and what we’d like without exacting instructions. Such is the plight of the loved one […]

5 Great Gift ideas for Diecast Collectors

Dozens — even hundreds — of great diecast replicas get released each year, and which ones you cannot live without is largely a matter of taste…and budget. But as the holidays approach, we figured the time was right to narrow down a short list of our very favorites for this year. So hear it is […]

From the “Never Be Diecast” files…

Long before the controversial Escalade EXT showed its…”distinctive”…face, Cadillac had another hybrid pickup. The guys over at Hemmings dug up this one: the Cadillac Caribou — a coachbuilt adaptation of a Coupe de Ville into a sort of upscale El Camino (how they passed up the ‘El Caminorado’ moniker in favor of ‘Caribou’ we can’t […]

What Car Is This?

Its been quite a while since we hit you guys with one of these automotive brain-teasers. High time we did another! Think you know what it is? Click HERE and enter your guess — make/model/year — in the comments!

Auto World 1:18 2015 Ford Mustang GT

A Five-Liter Fountain of Youth The automotive media is all aflutter these days with the news of the forthcoming 2016 6th-generation Camaro. The announcement has overshadowed the 6th iteration of the Mustang—which beat the Chevy to market by nearly two years. After all, the pony-car paparazzi are perpetually a “what have you done for […]

Undercover Uncovered! GMP’s FBI Pursuit Mustang

GMP has just declassified pics of the prototype of their forthcoming FBI Pursuit 1992 Ford Mustang. The notchback looks pretty intimidating in black on black, with little to distinguish it externally except the extra trunk-mounted antenna and the partially blacked out alloy wheels. Inside its packing plenty of firepower, with a riot shotgun and an […]

What Car Is It?

Got another brain-busting bit of automotive trivia for you, just in time for the weekend! Think you know what car this is? click HERE to enter your guess on the year/make/model in the Comments.

Moss+Mercedes Mille Miglia Magic

Sir Stirling Moss reunites with the #722 1955 Mercedes 300 SLR and recounts one of racing’s most astounding feats in one of racing’s most important machines. The production quality of the Petrolicious video does justice to an exquisitely beautiful, ingeniously engineered race car. A parade of racing luminaries — heroes to generations of fans and […]

Sneak Peek at what we’re working on for the next issue…

1/3 Scale Porsche Flat-6

Our friends over at RC Car Action found this. There are lots of functional miniature engines on YouTube, but most don’t sound nearly as good as this 1/3-scale replica of a Porsche Flat-6 circa late ’60s early ’70s. While most scale engine builders are happy to let their creations putt-putt, this builder (“a Dutch Porsche […]