The red zone
Always nice to look out the front window and see a street full of Ferraris! This would be a very rich street in reality if these were fthe real cars. The front one on right of picture - the Ferrari F40 - was my previous record holder for the most valuable (real) car in my collection with them changing hands for up to around 4 million US dollars. The Ferrari 250 GTO is a little more valuable. There were only 36 ever built (all of which still survive) and one sold at a Sotheby's auction for around 50 million US dollars (80 million Australian dollars).
To put that figure in perspective, our individual units in the retirement village here generally keep pace with local (country) real estate prices. If all 250 unit owners here sold their units and gave me the money, I still could not afford this car! It boggles the mind!
A little more detail is here to see on the GTO. The blue is real leather on the seats and other interior surfaces. CMC models even go to the trouble of putting in the striker plates for the door opening mechanism along with full 4 point racing harnesses for the seats. The tyres don't just show the makers name (Dunlop Racing) but also feature all the other fine print normally found on the sidewalls. On the model, this print on the tyre is less than half a mm in height.
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A forced perspective focus stack (25 images - processed in camera) taken in my retirement village street of my 1/18th scale model Ferrari F40 by Bburago and the Ferrari 250 GTO by CMC models. Taken with a Canon R10 and RF16mm lens.
The red zone
Always nice to look out the front window and see a street full of Ferraris! This would be a very rich street in reality if these were fthe real cars. The front one on right of picture - the Ferrari F40 - was my previous record holder for the most valuable (real) car in my collection with them changing hands for up to around 4 million US dollars. The Ferrari 250 GTO is a little more valuable. There were only 36 ever built (all of which still survive) and one sold at a Sotheby's auction for around 50 million US dollars (80 million Australian dollars).
To put that figure in perspective, our individual units in the retirement village here generally keep pace with local (country) real estate prices. If all 250 unit owners here sold their units and gave me the money, I still could not afford this car! It boggles the mind!
A little more detail is here to see on the GTO. The blue is real leather on the seats and other interior surfaces. CMC models even go to the trouble of putting in the striker plates for the door opening mechanism along with full 4 point racing harnesses for the seats. The tyres don't just show the makers name (Dunlop Racing) but also feature all the other fine print normally found on the sidewalls. On the model, this print on the tyre is less than half a mm in height.
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A forced perspective focus stack (25 images - processed in camera) taken in my retirement village street of my 1/18th scale model Ferrari F40 by Bburago and the Ferrari 250 GTO by CMC models. Taken with a Canon R10 and RF16mm lens.