FERRARI 500 F2 Scale 1:18 Email us to purchase now.

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In 1952 the FIA announced the World Championship would be run to Formula 2 specs after Alfa Romeos withdrawal from the sport. Ferrari were the only team to have a car specifically designed for the new formula, the 500 F2, with an in line four cylinder engine mounted behind the front axle to improve weight distribution. Alberto Ascari used the car to win his first world championship, the Ferrari team winning every round of the 1952 championship. In 1953 Ascari and the 500 won their second world championship, and the Ferrari team won all but the final race.
Ascari won a record 9 straight championship races in the 500, a record which still stands today, and the 500 won all but one race it entered, making it statistically the most successful car in the history of the FIA World Championship.

1934 MERCEDES BENZ W25 White Limited Edition of 3000 Scale 1:18 Email us to purchase now.

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Fans of this era of European racing will be aware that racing Mercedes were not always silver. They were originally white. At the first round of the 1934 F1 season the Mercedes team presented their beautiful white W25 to scrutineering only to discover that their racing machine was 1kg over class weight. As they couldn't re-engineer the car on the spot the team mechanics set to work overnight to strip the white paint from the car thus revealing the bare aluminium body underneath. The car made weight and the legend of the silver arrows was born. This model is the 'before' version in full white body paint. The car had a twin supercharged inline 8 cylinder capable of 354 horsepower, a very impressive figure for the time. It went on to win 4 GPs and 2 hill climbs in its first year of competition.

MERCEDES BENZ 300 SL 1952 Carrera Panamerica 1-2 WINNER Karl Kling / Hans Kirk Scale 1:18 Email us to purchase now.

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MERCEDES BENZ 300 SL 1952 Carrera Panamerica 1-2 2ND Herman Lang / Erwin Grupp Scale 1:18 Email us to purchase now.

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After the Mexican section of the Panamerican Highway was completed in 1950, a 3100 kilometre multi-stage race across the country was established to celebrate this feat. This event attracted such drivers as Fangio, Ascari and Bracca and manufacturers Ferrari, Jaguar, Porsche and Maserati and Americas Ford, Chrysler and GM. For legendary Mercedes Benz racing manager Alfred Neubauer, who had conquered GP, Nurburgring, Lemans and Mille Miglia, only one victory was missing the Carrera Panamerica. The cars and a team of 35 service crew made the 2 week sea voyage, and the drivers flew to Mexico in November 1952.
90 cars set off on the car breaking adventure, during the first stage the 300SL of Karl Kling and Hans Kirk was hit by a vulture, smashing the windscreen and injuring the codriver. After completing the first day, driver and codriver set about bolting eight vertical steel bars over the new windscreen to avoid similar impacts. Coming from 4th place on the last day Kling took the victory with Hermann Lang, the 1952 Lemans winner, making it a 1-2 victory for Mercedes.