INDY 500 SERVICE CARS IN 1/43

1988 Official car : Oldsmobile Cutlass (Salvat mexican collection)

@pascal-michels, what an incredible collection! Thanks for sharing it with us!

1989 Pontiac : made with a Hotwheels-Politoys modelcar and custom decals

1990 official cars : Chevrolet Corvette and Camaro (both made on Solido models with Jack Daniels decals)

1991 Dodge Viper :

- US Models (a Minichamps modelcar with Interdecal decals made for a french shop called Tacot)

- Provence Moulage (received for free last week : I have to find a passenger side mirror and to repaint the wheels)

1991 Dodge Caravan 

Minicar 43 with custom decals

- 1991 official vehicles fleet

1992 Cadillac Allanté

- pace car (Illustra Models for Highway Travelers)

- official car : Stamp Models with custom decals

- together :

1993 : I had many difficulties to make those two modelcars. Please be indulgents.

- Chevrolet Camaro (Roadchamps)

- Chevrolet Silverado (Salvat by Ixo)

1994 : Ford Mustang GT festival car (Minichamps and Modelcarworld decals) ; Ford F-250 official truck (Maisto) ; Ford Crown Victoria (DeAgostini by Ixo - custom made)

The actual ones :

1995

- Corvette pace car by Kentucky Legends

- Impala SS official car (Me-Mod kit with Kentucky Legends decals)

- Astro official truck (Jada with custom made decals)

- the complete fleet

1996 :

- Dodge Viper GTS pace car (Minichamps)

 - Dodge RT/10 official car

Minicar 43 modelcar with an Universal Hobbies roof ; custom made side windows and decals

- Dodge Ram (Maisto) : official truck and parade truck (custom made)

- Dodge Ram long bed official truck

Universal Hobbies (custom made)

- Dodge Ram wrecker 

Mattel/Matchbox (custom made)

- complete fleet :

1997 Oldsmobile Aurora parade car

This car was made for me by Jerry Rettig with a Minichamps IMSA Aurora. Here are pictures of his work :

Then I worked on it too : gold paint on the bottom of the car, I changed the dashbord and the windshield, then applied custom metallic decals on it.

Not perfect but unique :

1998 Chevrolet Corvette (Vitesse and Roadchamps)

2001 Chevrolet Silverado Dually

Anson model with custom decals

2002 Chevrolet Corvette

Danbury Mint modelcar with custom decals

From that year, only Chevrolets were used for the Indy 500 ... almost 😉

Jet Dryer used from 2003 to 2019

I made this trailer entirely by my own, except the chassis (made by Motormax):