Sunday 31 January 2010
Daytona 24 first 6 hour video clip
A video from Grand Am showing highlights from the first 6 hours of the Daytona 24 Hours.
Saturday 30 January 2010
{Weekly Giveaway}: Cutie Pie Jewellery
This week's giveaway is from the vintage style jewellery shop Cutie Pie, where you can find limited edition loviness, cute as a button!
The winner will get a £25 voucher to spend towards any one item in the shop...
go now to check out the full range of choices.
Sorry to bore you with the conditions again, only read if you're new here!
How to Enter? Anyone who leaves a comment on any post during the next 7 days is automatically entered in the draw, starting with this post and ending Saturday the 6th of Feb at 5pm GMT. The winner will be revealed later that day.
Rules: only leave one comment per post please, meaningless comments will also be discarded. To pick the winner, I will first use randome.org to generate a number between 1 to 6 say, (i.e. 6 posts a week) and then pick a randome comment within that post. So to maximise your chances you can reply to every post, don't want to miss a post? follow this blog via Blogger, Reader or Bloglovin & these technology will remind you!
How to Enter? Anyone who leaves a comment on any post during the next 7 days is automatically entered in the draw, starting with this post and ending Saturday the 6th of Feb at 5pm GMT. The winner will be revealed later that day.
Rules: only leave one comment per post please, meaningless comments will also be discarded. To pick the winner, I will first use randome.org to generate a number between 1 to 6 say, (i.e. 6 posts a week) and then pick a randome comment within that post. So to maximise your chances you can reply to every post, don't want to miss a post? follow this blog via Blogger, Reader or Bloglovin & these technology will remind you!
Now to last week's winner... Congratulation to Post 1 Comment 29, that's you Miss Vintage Vixen!! I will contact you shortly for delivery address :)
xx
Friday 29 January 2010
{Vintage Friday}: at luphia
Check out some new vintage style items at luphia.co.uk 
Have a lovely weekend, and thanks for your support my lovely readers :)
xx
Slot It wireless controller system
Note that this Slot it Oxigen wireless system works with all the manufacturer digital systems!
Click to see larger version of this photo.
Click to see larger version of this photo.
Thursday 28 January 2010
Flying Lizard/TRG Porsche 7th on grid for Daytona 24!
January 28, 2010 - Daytona Beach, FL - Patrick Long qualified the No. 67 TRG/Flying Lizard Porsche seventh in GT for this weekend's Rolex 24 at Daytona, the season-opener for the Grand-Am Road Racing Series. Joerg Bergmeister, Johannes van Overbeek and Seth Neiman will team with Patrick in the ShoreTel/Openwave-sponsored Porsche GT3 cup car for the 24-hour endurance race, January 30-31, 2009.Patrick commented, "We've been totally focused in practice on race balance setup. We decided to make some radical changes before qualifying and they didn't pay off as we had hoped. The Mazdas clearly had the pole in hand. But with the progress we've made today and with tonight's practice we'll have a very balanced car for the race. Seventh is a respectable starting position: we've got a 24-hour race to win and I'm confident that our setup work will pay off this weekend."
Patrick Long and Bergmeister return to Daytona with the goal to repeat their GT win here in 2009 (with TRG). Bergmeister has won three times at the Rolex 24: in 2009, in 2003 (GT and overall) and in 2002 (GT), all with TRG. Bergmeister was also the Grand-Am Daytona Prototype champion in 2006 (with Krohn Racing). Bergmeister and Long are Porsche factory drivers and will be co-drivers in the Flying Lizard No. 45 Porsche for the 2010 ALMS season. With Flying Lizard, the duo won the 2009 ALMS GT2 drivers' championship.
Read more at this link on Flying Lizard Motorsports' website.
News and photos used with written permission from FLMS, no reuse without their permission.
No Past, No Future
(photos by ina jang)
Wednesday 27 January 2010
New MRRC Ford and Chaparral set and Porsche arriving
The MRRC Ford/Chaparral set and the Porsche 904 will be arriving in the US very soon at REH Distributors.
Tuesday 26 January 2010
She Said, She Waited
Beautiful photos... 
(photos from here)
Monday 25 January 2010
Slot MiniAuto 64
COMUNICADO DE PRENSASLOT MINIAUTO 64 – FEBRERO
La revista Slot MiniAuto del mes de febrero destaca en su portada el nuevo Pegaso Z102 de Top Slot. En esta misma revista se publica, en exclusiva, las novedades con imágenes de todos los fabricantes de slot para este 2010. El Lancia Ferrari D50 de Cartrix es otro de los protagonistas destacados este mes. Además se incluye las pruebas del Abarth 500 Asseto Corse de NSR, Formichetta de Colecciolandia Slot, un reportaje de los Ligier Maserati de Le Mans y del nuevo Ferrari 250 California LM de Evolution Slot.
El Mazda 787B de Slot.it es el ganador del 8º concurso Coche del Año y en el interior se da a conocer los vencedores de las otras categorías.
(Más información en www.revistasprofesionales.com)
PRESS RELEASE
SLOT MINIAUTO 64 – FEBRUARY
Slot Miniauto Magazine for February highlights on its cover the new Top Slot Pegaso Z-102. In this magazine is published, exclusively, the new car references and images of all slot manufacturers for this 2010. The Lancia-Ferrari D50 of Cartrix Grand Prix Legens collection is undoubtedly one of the leading cars this month. The magazine also includes the track test of the NSR Abarth 500 Asseto Corse, Formichetta of Colecciolandia Slot, a report of all the Ligier Maserati at Le Mans and the new Evolution Slot Ferrari 250 California Spider Le Mans.
The Slot.it Mazda 787B is the winner of the 8th Slot MiniAuto Car of the Year contest and in the interior, the magazine announces the winners of the other categories.
New Special edition NSR Ford P68
Photos of the "British Edition" Ford P68.
From NSR:
NSR is glad to announce his third classic car, the P68.
BODYSHELL:
The "Modellistic" attitude with high attention to details is an aspect which we consider to be fundamental and this has been fully adhered to, in fact the bodyshell is made in 2 separate part for better look.
Inside the cockpit there is a four pieces driver, the steering wheel, gear shift, motor and other small pieces .
The body is fixed to the chassis by way of two screws at the front and one screw at rear.
Body dimensions are 62.5 mm width, 142.5mm lenght, 28 mm high.
The wheelbase is 70.5mm and the distance from center of rear axle to center guide is 86.0mm.
The weight of the fully accessoried and painted bodyshell it is 18 g. whilst the weight of the RTR car it is 69 g.
DECORATION:
The first livery version of the NSR P68 reproduces the 1000Km Nurburgring 1968 version, red n.7.
Second livery will be “British limited edition”, made for English fans but it will be on the market in all the World.
Third livery will be red n.9.
CHASSIS:
The main chassis is nylon made “flat” design of 1 to 1,5 mm. thickness for maximum grip when cornering whilst capable to withstand crashes.
Sidewinder motor support is held in position to main chassis by three screws (one in front and two at the side) which are only crossing it to screw into an independent ring. This allows the motor support to move independently from the chassis and in the desired amount (which can be set by simply unscrewing the screws from underneath).
The motor is of a sidewinder configuration with two degrees from the rear axle.
The chassis comes with a removable traction magnet, located just ahead of the motor; the neodymium magnet is round, 4mm high and 8mm diameter with two different mounting positions.
The guide is counter-sunk well inside the chassis to allow desired ground clearance by the use of thin spacers to be placed in between the guide itself and the chassis.
The one piece front axle can move vertically
Rear pillow block height, allows the gear to protrude only 1mm under the chassis level thus leaving still 1 mm. gear/track clearance.
PICK-UP GUIDE
The guide is similar to that of current offerings, but it is low-profile (only 1mm thickness); exclusive adjustable height using .005” , .010" or .020” new spacers, to cater for racing on all types of plastic tracks, as well as wooden tracks with raised, flush or recessed braid/copper tape to optimise the braids contact. The pivoting shaft is 8mm. high for a free vertical movement.
The brass connectors used to fix the wires to the guide are newly made, slightly bigger, chosen to guarantee a tough contact with our smallest thickness braids.
MECHANICAL
The components of NSR P68 are made up of the usual high-quality from NSR:
NSR3004 20K Shark motor, 20000rpm 164gr-cm
NSR4801 precision and very strong 49mm x 3/32" diameter axles
NSR5001 aluminium 16mm. diameter ‘front - NO air system’ 4/40 set screw front wheels,
NSR5002 aluminium 16 mm. diameter 'Air System' 4/40 set-screw rear wheels,
NSR5250 ‘No-friction’ hard front rubbers 18.5 x 9mm specifically made for P68.
NSR5253 ”Supergrip' rear softer rubbers, 20.5 x 10mm specifically made for P68.
NSR4803 Autolubricant & no-friction oilites
NSR6911 Extralight & no-friction 11t pinion
NSR6032 Extralight & no-friction 32t black gear 17.5mm
MOTOR
The motor for the NSR FORD MK IV is the Shark 20K, fully developed by triple World Champion Salvatore Noviello, made always by the same NSR philosophy: to realize high performance product without compromises!
Shark 20K motor has 20000 RPM at 12Volts with an excellent torque value of 164 gr/cm, an exceptional value, previously obtained only from “long can” and heavy motors.
The motor can is opened from both sides, it has cooling oval holes and the magnets are ceramics.
A famous Spanish magazine after a comparative test has described the NSR motor superior to any other motor challenge.
POLICY
‘Ready to Run’ is not enough!
NSR's objective is to make a Classic car using modern technology, so high tech ‘Ready To Race’. It needed to be competitive straight out the box, without any fiddling or modifications required to make it perform properly and we believe that this third car has also achieved this target.
Our policy is to offer really a ‘Ready To Win’ car; we never like that people need to buy aluminium wheels to replace plastic wheels, soft rubbers to replace hard rubbers, or a motor to replace slow box stock motor…!
The NSR P68 is an innovative model with high tech components, highly performing on track still respecting the scale modellistic aspect.
The NSR P68 was created in the streamline of the Mosler GT project which has dominated in the GT top class either in National and International competitions since it was born in 2006.
In according with our NSR philosophy, we have worked to obtain the best performances without any compromise.
The NSR “Classic” model cars are without doubts the fastest in the world.
Manufacturing costs and artisan labor in Italy are however significantly higher than China or East Europe, but NSR is very proud of the fact that all the models are completely and entirely built in Italy, thus allowing NSR to have absolute control over quality and to demonstrate our Country capability.
All NSR P68 cars are assembled and tested exclusively into NSR Factory and only by NSR employers, so NSR can offer full warranty about final product.
Retail price will be in proportion to the quality of product.
From NSR:
NSR is glad to announce his third classic car, the P68.
BODYSHELL:
The "Modellistic" attitude with high attention to details is an aspect which we consider to be fundamental and this has been fully adhered to, in fact the bodyshell is made in 2 separate part for better look.
Inside the cockpit there is a four pieces driver, the steering wheel, gear shift, motor and other small pieces .
The body is fixed to the chassis by way of two screws at the front and one screw at rear.
Body dimensions are 62.5 mm width, 142.5mm lenght, 28 mm high.
The wheelbase is 70.5mm and the distance from center of rear axle to center guide is 86.0mm.
The weight of the fully accessoried and painted bodyshell it is 18 g. whilst the weight of the RTR car it is 69 g.
DECORATION:
The first livery version of the NSR P68 reproduces the 1000Km Nurburgring 1968 version, red n.7.
Second livery will be “British limited edition”, made for English fans but it will be on the market in all the World.
Third livery will be red n.9.
CHASSIS:
The main chassis is nylon made “flat” design of 1 to 1,5 mm. thickness for maximum grip when cornering whilst capable to withstand crashes.
Sidewinder motor support is held in position to main chassis by three screws (one in front and two at the side) which are only crossing it to screw into an independent ring. This allows the motor support to move independently from the chassis and in the desired amount (which can be set by simply unscrewing the screws from underneath).
The motor is of a sidewinder configuration with two degrees from the rear axle.
The chassis comes with a removable traction magnet, located just ahead of the motor; the neodymium magnet is round, 4mm high and 8mm diameter with two different mounting positions.
The guide is counter-sunk well inside the chassis to allow desired ground clearance by the use of thin spacers to be placed in between the guide itself and the chassis.
The one piece front axle can move vertically
Rear pillow block height, allows the gear to protrude only 1mm under the chassis level thus leaving still 1 mm. gear/track clearance.
PICK-UP GUIDE
The guide is similar to that of current offerings, but it is low-profile (only 1mm thickness); exclusive adjustable height using .005” , .010" or .020” new spacers, to cater for racing on all types of plastic tracks, as well as wooden tracks with raised, flush or recessed braid/copper tape to optimise the braids contact. The pivoting shaft is 8mm. high for a free vertical movement.
The brass connectors used to fix the wires to the guide are newly made, slightly bigger, chosen to guarantee a tough contact with our smallest thickness braids.
MECHANICAL
The components of NSR P68 are made up of the usual high-quality from NSR:
NSR3004 20K Shark motor, 20000rpm 164gr-cm
NSR4801 precision and very strong 49mm x 3/32" diameter axles
NSR5001 aluminium 16mm. diameter ‘front - NO air system’ 4/40 set screw front wheels,
NSR5002 aluminium 16 mm. diameter 'Air System' 4/40 set-screw rear wheels,
NSR5250 ‘No-friction’ hard front rubbers 18.5 x 9mm specifically made for P68.
NSR5253 ”Supergrip' rear softer rubbers, 20.5 x 10mm specifically made for P68.
NSR4803 Autolubricant & no-friction oilites
NSR6911 Extralight & no-friction 11t pinion
NSR6032 Extralight & no-friction 32t black gear 17.5mm
MOTOR
The motor for the NSR FORD MK IV is the Shark 20K, fully developed by triple World Champion Salvatore Noviello, made always by the same NSR philosophy: to realize high performance product without compromises!
Shark 20K motor has 20000 RPM at 12Volts with an excellent torque value of 164 gr/cm, an exceptional value, previously obtained only from “long can” and heavy motors.
The motor can is opened from both sides, it has cooling oval holes and the magnets are ceramics.
A famous Spanish magazine after a comparative test has described the NSR motor superior to any other motor challenge.
POLICY
‘Ready to Run’ is not enough!
NSR's objective is to make a Classic car using modern technology, so high tech ‘Ready To Race’. It needed to be competitive straight out the box, without any fiddling or modifications required to make it perform properly and we believe that this third car has also achieved this target.
Our policy is to offer really a ‘Ready To Win’ car; we never like that people need to buy aluminium wheels to replace plastic wheels, soft rubbers to replace hard rubbers, or a motor to replace slow box stock motor…!
The NSR P68 is an innovative model with high tech components, highly performing on track still respecting the scale modellistic aspect.
The NSR P68 was created in the streamline of the Mosler GT project which has dominated in the GT top class either in National and International competitions since it was born in 2006.
In according with our NSR philosophy, we have worked to obtain the best performances without any compromise.
The NSR “Classic” model cars are without doubts the fastest in the world.
Manufacturing costs and artisan labor in Italy are however significantly higher than China or East Europe, but NSR is very proud of the fact that all the models are completely and entirely built in Italy, thus allowing NSR to have absolute control over quality and to demonstrate our Country capability.
All NSR P68 cars are assembled and tested exclusively into NSR Factory and only by NSR employers, so NSR can offer full warranty about final product.
Retail price will be in proportion to the quality of product.
Sunday 24 January 2010
{Weekly Giveaway}: Glitzer Jewellery
This week's giveaway is from the gorgeous shop Glitzer Again! a shop which stocks Enchanting. Fun. Feminine with A Sparkle.The winner will get a $25 voucher to spend towards any one item in the shop, check out the new paradise collection...
go now to check out the full range of choices.
Sorry to bore you with the conditions again, only read if you're new here!
How to Enter? Anyone who leaves a comment on any post during the next 7 days is automatically entered in the draw, starting with this post and ending Saturday the 30th of Jan at 5pm GMT. The winner will be revealed later that day.
Rules: only leave one comment per post please, meaningless comments will also be discarded. To pick the winner, I will first use randome.org to generate a number between 1 to 6 say, (i.e. 6 posts a week) and then pick a randome comment within that post. So to maximise your chances you can reply to every post, don't want to miss a post? follow this blog via Blogger, Reader or Bloglovin & these technology will remind you!
How to Enter? Anyone who leaves a comment on any post during the next 7 days is automatically entered in the draw, starting with this post and ending Saturday the 30th of Jan at 5pm GMT. The winner will be revealed later that day.
Rules: only leave one comment per post please, meaningless comments will also be discarded. To pick the winner, I will first use randome.org to generate a number between 1 to 6 say, (i.e. 6 posts a week) and then pick a randome comment within that post. So to maximise your chances you can reply to every post, don't want to miss a post? follow this blog via Blogger, Reader or Bloglovin & these technology will remind you!
Now to last week's winner... Congratulation to Post 5 Comment 15, that's you Angela!! I will contact you shortly for delivery address :)
xx
Friday 22 January 2010
{Vintage Friday}: Friends of Mr Fox
How lovely are these vintage finds! 
Have a lovely weekend friends :)
(images from hello mr fox at Flickr)
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