Not exactly faster than a speeding bullet, but the 1953 Porsche 550 Spyder gained a world-wide reputation as an honest-to-goodness mid-engine race car. The Spyder is now considered one of the world’s greatest cars, with a 50 year history of racing! It established the Porsche name as a brand of car to contend with on the race tracks of the world. Indeed, one of the early victories occurred at the Carerra Panamericana road race, with the result being a name that still appears on the Porsche cars today. And, oh yeah, the word Spyder was used my many of the car constructors of the time, it just meant “open car.”

While we all love the detail offered by many of the other 1/32nd slot car makers, Monogram has entered the market with an obvious concentration on American Iron! Hey, I grew up drooling over ‘Vettes and Cobras! Now, Monogram has produced (and hopefully will continue to do so) some of the most awesome racing machines on the planet: the Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupes and the, can-you-believe-it, early 60’s Corvette Grand Sports! (These are the REAL Grand Sports, not the name-sakes used by Chevrolet on some special-edition, stock Corvettes in later years).

Pete Brock called it "The Last Of The Specials". The Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe was one of the last great garage built race cars, making way for the high tech, and high dollar cars such as the GT-40 and others. The Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe made it's mark, shamed Ferrari in doing it, and rewrote the history books.