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31/07/2015 8:32 am
German Nürburgring, what to race ?
Hi guys, while on summer-holidays we're close to the great German N?rburgring.
What model-car from your own collection would you bring to race here in 1:1 ?
Who would you like to have around for repairs ?
31/07/2015 8:44 am
What else but my Mercedes-Benz 300 SL "Gullwing" coupe, with
Herr Rudolf Uhlenhaut and staff for advice and repairs.
01/08/2015 3:33 am
Maserati 250F, according to some the greatest F1 car of all time.- PIC
Fangio himself could run the team as he was also a superb mechanic. He is seen here next to his 250F with which he drove to victory at the N?rburgring in 1957. This race might have been the greatest in F1 history, driven by maybe the greatest driver of all time, in the greatest ever F1 race car. WOW! 
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Cheers and Happy Collecting,
Steve
01/08/2015 7:08 am
The 1:1 I would take is a car I once owned that my son gave me.
Although I don't have a model of it, it was a Vauxhall Astra Merit Station Wagon from around 1974. The Merit was the poverty spec version of the Astra so rubber tyres and a glass windscreen seemed a luxury. Finished in white, the whole car's demeanor was very scruffy and nobody would give it a second look. HOWEVER....under the skin it was a little different. Instead of the original 1300 cc engine was a 2 litre Calibra Red Top twin cam which was highly modified, the rear end and transmission was Cavalier GSi, and the exhaust was hand-built by Aston Martin. This beast would do 0-60 in under 5 seconds and 0 - 100 in under 12. We never did find out how fast it actually would go, valuing lives and licences in equal measure.
The question was, 'Why?'. It was built by a company called Regal Motorsport in Southampton and the only use we could think for it would have been as a rally support tug, taking spares from one special stage to another. It was great fun belittling BMWs, Audis and the like...extremely juvenile but great fun! I even left a Porsche Cayenne in the dust.
Now, if I still had it I would love to try it round the 'Ring!!
02/08/2015 4:33 pm
An Alfa on a German course? Why not? -pic
This old GTV:
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or this new 4C:
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