Rocking in Resin

Ferrari’s ground-breaking engineer Carlo Chiti brought the science of using scale models in a controlled environment to Maranello in the late 1950’s. Red Line models (www.redline-model.com, distributed in America by Minichamps, NA, www.minichampsna.com) has brought the science of high-tech modeling to render the results in 1:24.

Rat On

Some like their rods pristine and clean, with mile deep paint and a best-of everything slant; others can’t be seen in anything that doesn’t wear a hundred-grand price tag. But for some rodders, slammed is glam - and primer is the color of choice.

Sharp Swords

Espada is Spanish for “Sword”, and the creased, crisp styling of the so-named Lamborghini car made a strong case for such an edgy moniker on this Marcello Gandini (for Bertone) design.

World Class

It’s fashionable right about now to cast stones at The General, but there’s no denying that one of the cars that GM got right - way right - is the Cadillac CTS. Now in its second, equally successful generation, the car’s become a flagship for all that still bodes well for Detroit.

Joe Kelly Jr. interviews John Giordano, owner of the original Ferrari 512 that was used as the 1:1 scale reference for GMP Diecast’s upcoming “Masterpiece Collection” Ferrari. Stay tuned for more coverage of GMP’s version of this amazing automotive work of art!

TrueScale Miniatures’ publicity department - sorely overworked these days -  wasn’t too happy when we took much longer than promised with these new Tyrrell P34s. And as much as we’d like to say that there was some concrete logistical reason for the delay, we can’t.

We just liked them. A lot.

Well Bugged

Everyone loves the Bug. Homely, hardy, almost unstoppable, it turned the world on its ear. And while it’s true Doctor Ferdinand Porsche’s “Peoples Car” had its origins in a less than cheerful place and time, the car we’d come to call the Beetle would ultimately win hearts, change minds - and sell like nothing the world had seen since the Model T.

“It’s Alive..!”

One of the first Sword models we ever reviewed had an Elliott fuel/lube body on it, and it’s still a hell of a show. This time, it’s parked on a Mack Granite chassis, and the combination comes across as a rolling lab for mad scientists, with tanks, rails, opening doors, mounted machinery, and legible markings everywhere.