The Roaring Season

My early childhood memories are bought back to me today, thinking of going to the track with my dad and Watching John and My Dad and Trevor Crowe and many other locals race. I still remember him up at the fence to our Garage area at surfers paradise race when I was working for one of the Indy car ...

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It was great to have so many make the trip from New Zealand for the F5000 race, I was there with the Mclaren M10 B . We had many of the kiwis through our shop and attending an event I had at my shop which was an evening with Shadow cars which was great to have them there for that event also. Alan ...

Steve Holmes wrote:Wow, this is amazing! That rollcage is a work of art, must have taken you forever to make?

Yes, amazing work, great Job

http://i936.photobucket.com/albums/ad201/nickardele/62B60746-71AF-457E-9809-2DC456A8268D-289-000001E449F627E5_zpscd0d82f0.jpg This is a generic picture of my latest edition to my collection. It is a 1/43rd scale model. It has a significant meaning to me as I have been working for this team on this ...

Yes, it was a shame I am sure it will be running down there again some time!

The Mclaren M10 that we rebuilt last year will be running at Hampton downs this weekend and then Ruapuna on 2nd 3rd of Feb 2013. Bruce Leeson will be Driving the car so keep an eye out for it! http://i936.photobucket.com/albums/ad201/nickardele/E355B93B-8D62-4747-88C0-0330FC591696-330 ...

Thanks, I wished I had just a couple more days with the car but it turned out well. I hope that it gets some great results in Australia

The Mclaren is finished and we tested today at Buttonwillow and the car ran great. Eagle512 ( Steve ) came to the track and helped for the day. the car will be on it's way to Australia shortly. http://i936.photobucket.com/albums/ad201/nickardele/1A9D30C7-70C7-4E4D-A087-784CE74C90AF-330 ...

It might take a while to find but I think I have video of it when we ran it on our Dyno. I will certainly post it if I do

The # 32 Mustang was Rob Kennard. The car was the former Bob Slade car which Rob raced prior to building the Cortina Ford V8. http://i936.photobucket.com/albums/ad201/nickardele/ADAC4040-27EE-490A-8658-B924FE050E01-219-000000B64B9F49A7.jpg I Came across this thread the other night and thought that ...

Just a quick Photo update http://i936.photobucket.com/albums/ad201/nickardele/71A60F4F-8B75-4896-8EBC-05A6B211BB60-180-0000008ABEACB523.jpg http://i936.photobucket.com/albums/ad201/nickardele/C9DC24CD-53D0-4C9B-92AB-FBD632E35FE5-90-0000000B1684D975.jpg http://i936.photobucket.com/albums/ad201 ...

Steve Holmes wrote:Superb photo!

Yes that is a fantastic photo, sorry I missed you today Steve, we spent the day with the thunderbirds (U.S.A.F) F16's,absolutely fantastic to get up close for the day, would love to post pics but that would definately not be in line with subject at hand

Here is a quick photo update http://i936.photobucket.com/albums/ad201/nickardele/2C3E7C0B-1AEB-4477-9614-13DE5A0E9FF9-207-0000007C0C72D5DF_zpsea73c63c.jpg http://i936.photobucket.com/albums/ad201/nickardele/25A84F43-6EA0-4A7A-9054-4A19E8B657A0-207-0000007BFE97D89F_zps2373d735.jpg

Yes, I either buy my Ferrari F1 models without and buy the decals and add them or I have just bought two more Schumacher cars with Marlboro decals already on them through a diecast distributer. I think they fit them because you pay more for them with Marlboro decals!

Here is one that you guys might like to see a little closer, this is a Capri made by Biante. It is a fantastic little diecast in 1/18 Scale http://i936.photobucket.com/albums/ad201/nickardele/978956FF-8400-4BFA-94F5-FFBA4DE37B03-129-0000003189891960.jpg http://i936.photobucket.com/albums/ad201 ...

Hi guys, today I put the transmission back together. I won't have any of the parts back from plating until Friday. I will be ready to fit suspension to gearbox and tub, all the uprights and gearbox are back together and the rack is at heat treating. We have new valves in and the crank should be ...

The 2003 GA is My Favorite of all the years of the Schumacher Ferraris. Here is a couple of pictures of My son Mika and the 2003 GA and then my 1/18 scale version of the car. I have generally collected based on some kind of association with the cars as I had mentioned earlier. This is the one with ...

Nick, I like your work A great selection of models there. I am sure the R32 will be treasured always. Do you get many questions about the funny blue ones on the second shelf down of the very first photo:? D Cheers Lee Hi Lee, thanks the R32 will always be a very treasured one to me. Some of the ...

the M10 has been voted as 1 of the best looking cars of the 70's just like the Jordan 191 of the 90's and has to be 1 car in the dream lottery30 million lottery win collection buying spree we will all go on ! NO i am not starting to add other cars to the list maybe that is another thread Point yes ...