Carrera, the German equivalent of Scalextric, was founded in 1963 and so celebrated 50 years of slot car production last year. They had a couple of commemorative products but the one that caught my eye was a collaboration with Yello, the Swiss electronic band, who would be my single choice of music on my desert island. I've had this car on pre-order since July and it finally arrived last week (51 years after the founding of Carrera...).
The car is a Shelby Cobra 289, appropriately enough a 1963 model. The pre-production model had high detail models of Dieter Meier and Boris Blank and "Yello" in a gold script.
The production car has Dieter holding a spanner rather than a microphone stand, "Yello" in red script, and the gorilla image from the cover of 1983's "You Gotta Say Yes To Another Excess" only on the flanks not the bonnet. But still a really unusual car celebrating my favourite hobby and favourite band!
The tyre labelling "Bostich" refers to their first big hit.
The car is a Shelby Cobra 289, appropriately enough a 1963 model. The pre-production model had high detail models of Dieter Meier and Boris Blank and "Yello" in a gold script.
The production car has Dieter holding a spanner rather than a microphone stand, "Yello" in red script, and the gorilla image from the cover of 1983's "You Gotta Say Yes To Another Excess" only on the flanks not the bonnet. But still a really unusual car celebrating my favourite hobby and favourite band!
The tyre labelling "Bostich" refers to their first big hit.
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