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This Limited Designer Series (Continental) box set contains three beautifully detailed 1/43 scale model cars made by Minichamps. Limited to only 500 sets and individually numbered, it contains the latest Speed versions of the Bentley Continental Flying Spur, the Continental GT and the Continental GTC finished in silver with contrasting Hotspur interior and Burr Walnut woodwork.
£ 127.65 ex. VAT
Autoart is going to re-produce The King of Japanese’s Ferrari – Toyota 2000 GT Coupe with upgraded parts and engines, Oh No! What about my existing 2000 GT then?
自己是個標準的賓利迷﹐但很少接觸Le Mans賽事﹐直至有一天在MC論壇看到了其它前輩刊登了這台罕見的EXP Speed 8﹐就馬上被它的流線型外表深深地吸引了。原來EXP Speed 8是賓利離開了Le Mans賽事73年後再次重新回歸的首台賽車﹐其歷史意義對賓利來說極之重大﹐EXP Speed 8的引擎是和AUDI一齊開發的﹐後來更用在AUDI之後推出的超級跑車R8身上。
雖然說這款由Autoart製造的賓利是個大龜殼﹐但其精密的還原度還是對得起它的價格。細比一下真車就知道﹐無論是從外形或車身的標貼來說﹐這車都是AA中上之作﹐總共出了3款﹐兩款8號﹐一款7號。
今天有幸朋友以合理價錢出讓﹐後來才知道原來大部份EXP Speed 8已經在市面上絕版﹐而自己就最喜歡這台的外形加上典型的英國綠﹐漂亮﹗
1/18 Autoart Bentley EXP Speed 8 L.M. 24HR 2002 A.WALLACE / B.LEITZINGER / VAN DE POELE #8
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這台是一位在拍賣網站認識的朋友慷慨送給我的見面禮物﹐我真的很感謝他﹗
Exoto出的一系列Sauber-Mercedes C9都代表了其精湛的工藝早在很久以前已經遠遠超越了Autoart,Minichamps, Kyosho層面的車模製造商﹐如果用其水準跟CMC相比的話﹐也一點不過份。
先後收了3個Exoto Le Mans拉力賽的車模﹐是一個比一個令我讚嘆不已﹐如果你有機會﹐就一定要收藏這些Exoto的代表作﹐因為它正正代表了現今高端水準的車模收藏。
1/18 Sauber-Mercedes C9 Le Mans Race Car #62
另附上今早樓下鄰居的買給自己的新年禮物BMW M3
This news brought lights to my gloomy morning.
Nice nice!!! 70/80’s big name Sergio Tacchini is finally back onto the court especially with stars like Djokovic!!!
It’s one of my favourite brand as well, weared by so many big names in the 80s’ like Sampras, Mcenroe, Ivanisevic, etc and even carry the glory to the 90s’ by Hingis…
and just in case you don’t know.
Sergio Tacchini is technically a Hong Kong company now! Yeah!
See the news from FT:
Hembly boss buys Sergio Tacchini
By Robin Kwong in Hong KongPublished: June 6 2008 06:00 | Last updated: June 6 2008 06:00
A Hong Kong businessman has bought Sergio Tacchini, the Italian tennis-wear brand that in its prime sponsored top players John McEnroe and Pete Sampras but has since fallen on hard times.
The purchase by Billy Ngok, who is also chairman of Hembly, a distributor and supply-chain services company, marks the first Chinese acquisition of a major European sportswear brand.
The deal also adds to the growing number of recent foreign brand acquisitions by Chinese manufacturers and so-called “middlemen” companies seeking to move up the value chain.Xinyu Hengdeli, the biggest luxury watch retailer in China, bought a 90 per cent stake in Italian hand-crafted pen brand Omas from LVMH last October.
Sergio Tacchini, an Italian tennis player, founded the eponymous brand in 1966. It claims to have introduced colour into professional tennis apparel that had previously been white-only. The brand enjoyed success in Italy and France, enlisting top-seeded tennis stars including Jimmy Connors, Martina Hingis, and more recently Goran Ivanisevic when he won the Wimbledon title as a wild-card in 2001.
But intense competition from global sportswear brands such as Nike and Adidas, a lack of expansion beyond its core European market and an overall decline in the tennis wear market has resulted in heavy losses in the past few years for the family-owned business.
There were other problems, such as an acrimonious break-up with Ms Hingis in 1999 that led to her suing the brand in 2002 for giving her shoes that she claimed had hurt her feet.
Sergio Tacchini filed for bankruptcy in Italy early last year, which created an opportunity for Mr Ngok to buy the brand, as Hembly was already a supplier for Sergio Tacchini.
Mr Ngok closed the deal in late April to buy Sergio Tacchini’s assets for €27m ($42m) and inject an extra €33m into the business, and revealed the details to the Financial Times yesterday. Mr Ngok, who made the acquisition as a private investment, has granted Hembly an option to purchase Sergio Tacchini within the next three years.
“Instead of producing just for the manufacturer’s [profit] margin, we are moving into the brand management margin,” Mr Ngok said. “Why, today, am I only working for other people?”
Under a lease agreement, a team assembled by Mr Ngok has already been managing Sergio Tacchini for the past year. During that time, the company had sales of €60m and a modest profit.
Mr Ngok plans to introduce the Sergio Tacchini brand into mainland China next year and open 200 stores there in the following three years. By 2012, China should account for up to 30 per cent of the brand’s global sales, Mr Ngok said. “China will be the engine of growth [for Sergio Tacchini]”, he added.
個人認為80年代所有意大利的超級跑車都來的是那麼的震撼﹗法拉利的如Testarossa﹑288 GTO﹑F40﹑F50﹔林寶堅尼的如Countach﹑Diablo等等﹐這些超跑無論從外型設計﹑顏色佩搭到引擎性能等都到達了顛峰的水平。它們在二十多年後的今天看來還是沒有什麼老態﹐而且在國際拍賣市場的價格更是日新月異﹗
對日本手版製造商Make Up的F40精緻做工的確好得沒什麼可挑剔的﹐自從上次中了43手版F40的毒後﹐就到處尋找其代表作﹕Testarossa﹑288 GTO﹑F40的芳蹤。這次正巧有朋友放售﹐我當然二話不說﹐馬上進了這兩台特別限量版。
之後在仔細觀賞時﹐竟然越看就越驚喜﹐想不到Makeup把一些細緻如一粒米的部件都還原的一絲不苟﹐這樣的做工﹐我只能說日本人的確很“變態”﹐他們好像總有無限的精力把很多東西都弄到了不可能想象的地步﹐真的很“變態”﹗
1/43 Make Up Ferrari F40 LM Test Monza 1989 and Test Car Matt Black
一直對此類拉力賽跑車都沒什麼特別留意﹐直到有一天從MC的論壇上看到了一些Exoto拉力賽跑車的近距離相片﹐就立刻被Exoto這些“驚為天人”的精密度所震驚﹗原來除了CMC的經典古董車做得出如此的精密度外﹐Exoto的現代拉力賽跑車的精密度也不相上下﹐有些層面可能做得更青出于藍﹐尤其是對引擎精密度的還原程度更令人佩服得心服口服﹐Exoto這一系列的旗艦就是做得棒﹗
這兩台是在本地拍賣網站上看到﹐出來交收的時候才發現有些小問題﹐最後賣家爽快得很﹐幾乎是半賣半送﹐令我得以用不到原價1/8的優惠價購買到這兩台不是散包的“極品”﹐回家之後簡單修復了一下﹐越看引擎的精密程度就覺得越超值﹐還真的要好好謝謝那位慷慨的朋友。另外我開始留意Exoto的這類極品車模了﹐以後有機會一定收多幾台﹗
1/18 Exoto 1989 Exoto Nissan R89C – Works Prototype
1/18 Exoto 1987 Exoto Sauber-Mercedes C9 #61 – Kouros
看見有網友出售這兩台絕版的1/16 Fujimi Ferrari﹐馬上購入﹐因為太喜歡Koenig Testarossa和F40了﹐而且這兩台日本製造的1/16 Fujimi是第一版模具出品的﹐所以外形很準和縫隙極小﹐因為第一版的時候模具還沒有被磨損。
跟我另外兩盒第二版的1/16 Fujimi Koenig Testarossa比較﹐零件精密度馬上就立見高下﹐上手保存的極好﹐近20年歷史的模型連盒子還是新簇簇的﹐尤其是這台Koenig Testarossa﹐拍賣場卻近十年都沒有看見過它的出現﹐就憑盒面的圖案已經令人完全陶醉﹐Koenig當年的Testarossa改裝真的很有氣勢﹐極具收藏價值。
1/16 Fujimi Koenig Testarossa & F40
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跟很多華人一樣，我的網球偶像是Michael Chang，我太喜歡他了，所以曾經瘋狂地收藏了6塊POG (包括第一代單條綠線版)。
“Jesus Loves You, Michael”
1989年張德培17歲贏了最年輕的法國公開賽男單冠軍，令當年完全不愛運動的我選擇了以後打網球，一打就上打上了癮，並且打足了20幾年。
讀大學的時候曾經做過一個Michael Chang的網頁，Michael 哥哥Carl還特別Email多謝過我這個小粉絲，嘻嘻。。。
2010年的Hong Kong Tennis Classic更第一次做了他的小粉絲，終於拿到遲了20年的Michael 簽名。
