tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7679580624727361518.post4496334940872645006..comments2024-02-15T04:11:33.551+08:00Comments on Mike's Diecast Collection: The Silver ArrowsJDMike's Diecast Sitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02949328345371516337noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7679580624727361518.post-7562983639006803712008-08-18T21:06:00.000+08:002008-08-18T21:06:00.000+08:00wow!! i would say thats a very detailed history ab...wow!! i would say thats a very detailed history about germany's automobile history, thanks jerome! <BR/><BR/>thanks also for the visit! :-)JDMike's Diecast Sitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02949328345371516337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7679580624727361518.post-18951102528737074872008-08-17T15:26:00.000+08:002008-08-17T15:26:00.000+08:00Nice feature. If I may add, with their paintless ...Nice feature. If I may add, with their paintless racing cars, it was kind of strange that Silver became an accepted racing color for Germany. Auto Union (later Audi) and Porsche followed suit. VW isn't really involved in motor racing (apart from the occassional Paris-Dakar effort). From the Auto Union Type C (w/c was the W125's rival), to the present-day Audi R8s and R10s that has dominated Sports-Prototype racing this century, racing cars from Ingolstadt (sp?) use the silver color. Same thing with Porsche, from the type 804 Grand Prix car of 1962, to the type 550 Spyders and type 904s, all are silver. Of course when commercialism and advertising became the norm in motor racing, so went the national racing colors. So the Porsche 917s, 935s, 956s and so on carried their sponsors' colors. Only recently, during the past 10 years or so, did the nationalism in motor racing amongst car manufacturers came back.<BR/><BR/>Bitter rival BMW, to this day, still use the traditional White as Germany's national colors. Notice their Formula One and DTM efforts, as well as the LeMans effort of almost a decade ago, plus the Brabham-BMWs of the 1980s. Not to mention their Formula 2 effort (recall Dieter Quester) before that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7679580624727361518.post-4449566373434414312008-08-02T06:04:00.000+08:002008-08-02T06:04:00.000+08:00thanks for the great info christina, will check it...thanks for the great info christina, will check it out later, and thanks for visiting the site also. :-)JDMike's Diecast Sitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02949328345371516337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7679580624727361518.post-2247308111634928052008-08-01T23:17:00.000+08:002008-08-01T23:17:00.000+08:00cool site, mikemeta, and I'm not even into die...cool site, mikemeta, and I'm not even into diecast cars! Saw your msg. on Collette's Shoutbox, & wanted to let you know that you can get a lot of good Blogger and blogging help & info at BloggerTalk.net. (You mentioned RSS feeds?)<BR/><BR/>Also, you should already have a feed URL, add rss.xml to your regular URL (I think), and it wouldn't hurt to check into Feedburner.Christina G.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06231083312839633780noreply@blogger.com