Catching up on all of this week’s slot car news, plus a special feature on a sports car manufacturer that’s over one hundred years old.
Scratch Building
- Custom Drag Cars More magical HO scale dragsters from Mazda
- Making urethane tyres Anthony documents his first attempt and shares his techniques.
- Jaguar SS-100 Rust bucket with MG-Lola underpinnings from dwdirks
- Wonderful Maserati A stunning group of Maserati models from AnthonyB
- Lotus 30 Blues – Ken makes it a brace of Lotuses
Slot Racing
- HO Drag Proxy The penultimate event of the Winter Series provided more incredibly close finishes – RACE REPORT
- WHO Winter Rally-Sprint Proxy Two more stages have been completed at South Downs, and they made quite a difference at the top of the standings
Tracks
Sometimes a slot track can be hugely effective in evoking feelings of a particular time and place. Here are a couple of lovely examples…
- A video of my wooden rally track ΅Flat Over Crest” A deserved bump for Rallyhub’s exceptional track, protraying an autumnal rally stage round a quintessential English village
- Palmer Divide Raceways Dreinecke’s fifth iteration of his wonderful track, an homage to Riverside International Raceway, using elements from Colorado in general.
Scenery
- #037 Pit Wall seriesMagnetic Racing have released the Pit Wall series based on the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza Pit Wall. It has 5 modules to choose from, which can all be mixed and matched.
- New for 2021 from Slot Track Scenics New figures and scenic accessories
Media
- Library We have more additions to the Library this week, with twelve Carrera catalogues which just about span the history of the brand, with issues from 1966 through until 2011, and fourteen SCX catalogues, with issues from 1996 to 2011.
Slot Cars
- Emergency and Support Services vehicles More Police cars and emergency vehicles than we ever knew existed, from richardtheforth’s amazing collection
Feature
In this week’s special feature, we showcase a sports car maker that was founded during the first world war, and began racing as early as 1921. A company that won the Targa Florio four years running from 1937-40, won the F1 championship in 1954 & 57, and after dropping out of motorsports because of financial issues, came back in 2004 to win five FIA GT Championships.
The brothers that founded the company, Alfieri, Bindo, Carlo, Ettore, and Ernesto, named it eponymously… Maserati.
- Maserati on the Targa Florio80 years ago Maserati took its last win on the Targa Florio
- Maserati’s First Indy 500 WinHow the Titanic led to Maserati’s First Indy 500 Win, 81 years ago
- 1957 Maserati 250SThe cars of Lord Laidlaw
- Maserati 450S Costin-Zagato Coupé
- Maserati 5000 GTThe 60 year old Maserati 5000 GT was the ultimate bespoke grand tourer in its day (and it still is)
- Maserati Eldorado The Maserati Eldorado Tipo 420/M/58/ – The Monzanapolis Racer
- Maserati Series I Sebring1963 Maserati Series I
- Maserati’s mid-engined twins Maserati’s mid-engined twins shed a bright light during dark days
- Maserati Company History and Founders
- Enrico’s Maserati Pages “There are Maserati Owners. There are Maserati Automobilia Collectors. There are Maserati Enthusiasts. There are Maserati Scholars. There are even Maserati enthusiasts who set up their own web sites! I have to confess that I fall into all these categories.”
Enrico we salute you. The internet needs more people like you.
