Last update: March 21, 2025
Welcome to my website. My name is Mike, I live in The Netherlands and I have always been a motorsport fan.
In 1971 my father took me to the cinema and I saw Steve McQueen’s “Le Mans”. Afterwards I got a model car and of course I chose a Porsche 917, not in Gulf livery unfortunately but a metallic red one. I played with it for years until it was worn and finally threw it away, but the love for endurance racing and specially Le Mans lasted. Recently I saw a similar model on eBay and bought it.
The first F1 Grand Prix that I visited was Zandvoort in 1973. My first 24-hour race was at Spa-Francorchamps in 1981 and I started collecting model cars after I finally visited the Le Mans 24h for the first time in 1998. I’ve visited over 40 24-hour races and many other endurance events, sprint races, rallies and did quite some driving myself also.
I focus on collecting Le Mans models, but also related series such as World Endurance Championship, DRM, Nürburgring 24h, Daytona 24h, Spa-Francorchamps 24h, Sebring 12h, and the Targa Florio. I even got a few Dakar and rally cars. I like colorful liveries, so Gulf, Martini, Jägermeister are among my favorites. 99% are in scale 1/43, I also have a few 1/18s.
I post blogs in which I describe the cars and races of my favorite racing cars. I’m not aiming to give a complete history overview, just for the ones that I have the model car.
Here are a few pictures of my model car man cave, I hope you like it.
Please come back mow and then to enjoy my passion for 1/43 scale models!
Thanks for visiting 😉