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  • COMING SOON: NISSAN SKYLINE SUPER SILHOUETTE BY AUTOART

    One of the most beloved Japanese race cars of all time is making a return to the world of diecast models this spring, as AUTOart is set to release its 1:18-scale replica of the Nissan Skyline RS Turbo Super Silhouette, the wildly flared, flame-spitting monster that captured the imagination of a ... View Post
  • INFLECTION POINT: STEVE MCQUEEN AND THE PORSCHE 908/2

    One of the most common tropes in automotive culture holds that Steve McQueen would have made an outstanding professional racing driver had his acting career not gotten in the way. This belief tends to ignore that it was McQueen's acting career that facilitated his entry into amateur racing in th... View Post
  • The late 1960s were a golden age for international prototype racing, with large-displacement titans slugging it out on legendary circuits like Sebring, Spa, and the granddaddy of them all, Le Mans. But, as in most other aspects of life, everything changed in the 1970s. In 1972, the FIA merged Gr... View Post