Re-published September 9, 2025 | last update October 28, 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 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 racing myself also.
I focus on collecting Le Mans models, but also 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. My favorite liveries are Gulf, Martini, and Jägermeister. 99% of the models are in scale 1/43, I have a few 1/18s.
I post blogs that I call “collections” in which I gather and describe cars and races of my favorite racing cars. I’m not aiming to give a complete historic 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 now and then to enjoy my passion for 1/43 scale models!
STARS
Starting in October 2025, I will put a rating on all model cars from 1 to 5 STARS, this is not an exact science, just my personal opinion.
– Overall rating: are the dimensions correct, is the livery attractive, does the real car have an interesting history?
– Quality details: the quality of the decals, wheels, spoilers, exhausts. Are there any antennas, wipers, towing points?
– Estimated value: all my models are out of their boxes and have been on display in my cabinets. But I kept the boxes, so I can put them in and sell them on eBay.
- 1 star : probably not over 10 euro
- 2 stars: between 10 and 25 euros
- 3 stars: between 25 and 50 euros
- 4 stars: between 50 and 80 euros
- 5 stars: probably well over 80 euros
Thanks for visiting 😉