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AUTOart Brake Caliper Tape Dispenser

AUTOart Brake Caliper Tape Dispenser

AUTOart is making a lot of noise these days by taking racing components — or decent facsimiles thereof — and giving them to us in useful, but still distinctly automotive forms for use in our everyday lives. Take, for instance, this six-pot racing brake caliper, scaled down and made to work as a tape dispenser. […]
AUTOart Center Lock Wine Bottle Holder

AUTOart Center Lock Wine Bottle Holder

AUTOart knows how to take even the most mundane bit of automobilia and make it a lifestyle item. Take, for instance, this center-lock wine bottle holder, patterned after the hardware used to secure racing wheels for quick pit stops. Instead of wheels, however, this locking nut secures the bottle in a polished aluminum cylinder; all […]

Dwarf Cars!

Dwarf Cars!

These amazing machines are hand-tooled rather than diecast — and if anything that makes them even more cool. Not to mention the fact that they actually drive! Not remotely mind you. Builder Ernie Adams folds himself into his Dwarf Car creations (which look to be perhaps 3/5th scale) and drives them around — sometimes on […]
Ford Scale Skunkworks!

Ford Scale Skunkworks!

Our colleagues over at RC Car Action came across this cool story about some 3/8-scale wind-tunnel models from the 1950s that Ford rigged for radio-control! The story, pics and video came courtesy of Mac’s Motor City Garage: “…Tremulis and a studio staffer, Romeyne Hammond, constructed radio control systems, adapting six-volt car batteries, convertible top motors, […]
Round 2 / AMT Tire Set

Round 2 / AMT Tire Set

As if a set of Goodyear “Blue Streaks” weren’t nostalgic enough, AMT’s set of eight “Dragway Special” drag slicks comes in a package that looks pretty much like a hobby store foundling — which means that it’s cool as heck, and just the kind of thing that Round 2 embraces so well. The hollow vinyl […]
LRP Mercedes-Benz DTM

LRP Mercedes-Benz DTM

Another just-emerging runner from LRP is this Mercedes-Benz C-class AMG DTM – truly a trick sedan, thanks to accurate proportions, a low-slung stance, and the same S10 tub-style chassis used on the Porsche. That tub has a lot of advantages – strength being the principal benefit – and it makes for an adaptable platform that […]
LRP Porsche GT3 “Green Hell”

LRP Porsche GT3 “Green Hell”

If you know what “Grüne Höelle” means – and no, it’s not a Goth-metal act from Sweden – you’re probably already taking a good long look at this LRP Porsche GT3 Cup racer from RC maker LRP. The model and the company are both new (they haven’t even figured out their pricing, yet) but it […]
ACME Finds Some GMP Rarities – and They’re For Sale!

ACME Finds Some GMP Rarities – and They’re For Sale!

In what we’d consider to be the scale equivalent of a barn find, ACME recently uncovered a stash of built-up and almost forgotten GMP stock at a factory in China. The cars are all new, in box, and represent GMP at the top of their game. Judging by the listed models – available for sale […]
Legends Remembered: M2 Machines’ Shelby Tribute Cars

Legends Remembered: M2 Machines’ Shelby Tribute Cars

Carroll Shelby’s legacy remains one of the strongest in automotive history. M2 Machines’ “Shelby Tribute” 1:24 and 1:64 first-gen Shelby 1965 Mustang GT350s celebrate the life of the legend, and each car wears the number “89” (Mr. Shelby’s age at passing), a brace of reproduced Shelby signatures on its roof, and the stylized “CS” logo […]
SPY SHOTS! ACME Re-Fires Real Art Replicas!

SPY SHOTS! ACME Re-Fires Real Art Replicas!

You’d think that the hyper-slick photography we usually employ (if we do say so ourselves) would be the type of image we’d get excited about around here. But you’d be wrong. The photos we love – like these, from an undisclosed location far away, via ACME Trading – are the grainy, badly-lit kind you usually […]
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