Time to remember

On April 14th, 2021, a great friend of mine passed away. I’m very grateful for being able to call him friend for almost 20 years. Yet, 5 years ago he left us. Just like me, he was an avid collector and had a huge passion for Porsche. No doubt at all, at least some part of my collection was directly influenced by him.

For instance, the 1974 911 Carrera RSR Turbo #22. Not only did he introduce me to this car, but this model was a gift from him. To this day that RSR is one my most cherished models, because it was a gift from my dear friend.

Time passed but I still miss you, Gary 😱.

Site update

Today I tweaked a bit the overall structure of W-143. As you can see on the top menu bar, I added a few categories. Well, what I actually did was divide “Other Races” and “Miscellanea”. Now rally cars have their own page, as does transporters and service vehicles and test and prototype cars. Since W-143’s rally wing is receiving quite a few cars lately, the “Other Races” was getting too crowded for my likes. And since I added a new Rally section, I decided to also make a specific Service & Transporters and Test & Prototype sections. No new material, just (hopefully) getting things better organized.

When you almost loose faith in a brand…

I think it’s patent that I’m a HUGE fan of Tecnomodel. Just as good as Looksmart and BBR, but at a much affordable price. In terms of Ferrari models, in my book it’s THE 1:43 brand. However, my faith in the brand got shaken up after I received my F40 GTE. My model came with some (minute) issues with a couple of decals. Nothing big, but something I didn’t expect from Tecnomodel. Well, fast-forward to the 330 LMB. I ordered it as soon as my dealer offered it to me, and was anxiously awaiting it’s arrival. And as always, while I waited I started the research on the real car.

Looking up photos of the real car, I noticed there was a small discrepancy with the model shown at Tecnomodel’s website. On all race pictures that I found, the car had a small bug deflector on the bonnet, while the model on the Tecnomodel website did not 😳. “Oh crap, they screwed up!”, I immediately thought. I then scoured the web to see if it was right or wrong, and found one pic of the car without the bug deflector screen. I think that photo was taken during scrutineering, so perhaps the part wasn’t installed yet. If true, the model wasn’t wrong, yet I would prefer the “race version” 😕…

But to my surprise, when I opened the box, there was the bug deflector on the bonnet, as it should be! Probably the photo on the website was from a pre-production model, and Tecnomodel rectified the missing detail before actual production. And with that, my faith in Tecnomodel was restored… 😁