The Car Collection Of WRC Legend Juha Kankkunen

I cling to the roll bar as the man who won 23 rallies slides a Group B car past the front door of his private museum. The Peugeot 205 T16 Evo 2, for example, is the very car in which he won the Swedish Rally in 1986. "In '86 I went from a rear-wheel-drive Toyota to a four-wheel-drive Peugeot," says Kankkunen. "It required a totally different style of driving but it only took me three months to adjust and I won the second rally I entered. When you're a kid you can learn anything quickly."Kankkunen won his first World Championship with Peugeot in 1986, but the infamous Group B cars were banned a year later following the death of his close friend Henri T

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Buying NASCAR Diecast Collectible Online

NASCAR cars are reproduced in collectible forms through diecast cars. Fans often spend much time collecting diecast cars of all their favorite NASCAR drivers, as more models comes out every season.An easy and fun way to get them is through eBay. All of the famous drivers' cars are on trade at eBay. Some of the drivers include Dale Earnhardt, Bobby Labont, Jeff Gordon, Mark Martin, just to name a few. Vast arsenals of collections are available on eBay.Shopping on eBay requires you to learn a few stuff such as the shipping, payment methods, insurance and feedback. eBay works on a bidding and purchasing method, where the highest bidder gets the item. To p

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Buying Hunter Douglas Brand Products

When you want to spruce up your home, you need to ensure that you only buy good products and brands that are guaranteed to serve you well and last for a long time. Consequently, many people have opted to buy products only of a specific brand and not buy something that is going to give them problems in the long run like losing its shine or luster or even just falling apart due to some other reason. Hence, instead of skimping and buying something unreliable, you should consider investing your hard earned money in something that will last and serve you for a long time to come.Among the many different kinds of brands that are available in the market today,

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More Designers Choose HandCASE Handheld Enclosures

Greater use of mobile technology in harsh environments is prompting more designers to choose handCASE handheld enclosures from ROLEC . These high performance aluminium enclosures have been specifically designed for mobile handheld electronics used regularly in challenging conditions. Fareham, Hampshire (PRWEB UK) 12 January 2012 These high performance aluminium enclosures have been specifically designed for mobile handheld electronics used regularly in challenging conditions.Typical applications for handCASE IP66 enclosures include test and measurement equipment, machine and robot controllers, detection equipment and data logging units. These ergonomi

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Diecast Model Cars - A History - Facebook

There is quite a long history of craftsmen building detailed miniature replicas of transport vehicles and machinery, but it wasn't until 1934 that diecast model cars and lorries arrived on the market in any great numbers.At that time the model cars and trucks weren't regarded as collectable items in their own right - they were produced to lend added realism to model railways.Since the early 1920s Frank Hornby had been making increasingly complex train sets. One of the sets, Meccano Set No 21, was embellished with six diecast models, consisting of a motor truck, a sports coupe, a delivery van, a sports car, a farm tractor, and an Army tank. These were t

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Collecting Diecast Matchbox Cars

Matchbox cars are probably in every man's past. Almost every little boy at one time or another has owned at least one matchbox car, but probably more than just one. These diecast cars are the fabric of molding our imagination as a child. I can remember setting up tracks and little towns as a child and running my matchbox cars for hours at a time. I also remember my mother getting angry as she would step on them in the middle of the night or just coming into my room at any given time. Matchbox cars are as popular today as they were some 50 years ago. Every Wal-Mart or dollar store has some sort of display with these diecast models hanging on the rack. M

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