Bonus Image Gallery!

When we heard Kyosho was going to take their already amazing 1:18 Ferrari 250 GTOs and make them even more detailed, we were curious. When the cars showed up, we were knocked out - and took way too many photos! You can read about the models on page 44 of the July / August issue of CRM - and enjoy these snapshots right now.

Gimme Shelter

From the July / August 2010 issue of The Car Room Magazine

The AC Cars Group is one of oldest auto manufacturers in the UK, dating back to 1903. After WWII AC cars used Bristol engines, ultimately switching to Ford Zephyr power in 1961. A year later, Carroll Shelby convinced them to try the small block Ford V-8 in their sports cars. And thus, after many structural chassis enhancements (and a much-needed set of wider tires), was born the AC Cobra.

DOPPLER WOULD HAVE BEEN grinning from ear to ear, as it were. The sound was a turbo howl that bounced off the dry hills at Laguna, found its throat in the sandy corners of the roadway, and arrived in furious full surround. Someone had uncorked something hellacious, and it was Headed. This. Way. 

Just Desserts

CMC’s riotously good Ferrari 250 SWB Berlinetta is something of a classic among 1:18 model car collectors. That has something to do with familiarity; even the staunchest American muscle collector has a soft spot for the real SWB’s shape, vicious performance, and legendary exhaust note. But it sure doesn’t hurt that CMC did a hell of a job bringing both the countenance and the content of the nearly-priceless Ferrari out in grand style.