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Mike Garrett for Speedhunters takes us inside the iconic Japanese plastic model kit and remote control car makers in-house museum.

Don’t miss their earlier installment showcasing Tamiya’s annual open house event.

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A great little profile by Peter Crosby:

Lenny Shiller is a lifelong Brooklyn resident and classic car collector. He has amassed a staggering 58 rare classic cars, while he also owns hundreds of vintage bikes, motorcycles, and memorabilia. Lenny spends his time restoring and maintaining his collection, with the intention one day to pass them on to the next generation. The walls of his 12,000 sq ft garage in Gowanus are stacked with car parts he has collected over the years, the space resembling part working garage, part museum.

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Classic Driver take a stroll through the Porsche Museum’s now-not-so-secret warehouse of concepts, prototypes, retired race cars, and other special examples produced by the famed marque from Stuttgart.

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Bertone is to be sold next week as court-ordered bankruptcy proceedings wind up the legendary Italian automotive design house.

Bertone - the carrozzeria behind the likes of the Lamborghini Miura and Countach, the Alfa GTV, and Fiats like the Dino and X1/9 - was declared bankrupt last year. The full story of the demise of this great design house is a desperately sad, internecine disaster, so convoluted that it really can’t be told here.

Now the courts in Milan have ordered the assets of the bankrupt ‘Bertone Cento’ company be sold at an online auction next week. Among these is the Bertone brand itself, which the auctioneer values at £2.2 million.

Those with pockets deep enough will snag not only the Bertone brand but with it a motley collection of one-off prototypes and design studies that form the Bertone museum in Italy.

Will be very interesting to see where it goes. The end of an era or the beginning of a new one?

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A long update on the multitude of projects on the go—and being planned—at Jay Leno’s Big Dog Garage.

Don’t miss the previous installment from earlier in the year.

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The town of Romorantin south of Paris is home of Matra, Formula 1 World Champions back in 1969 and three time Le Mans winners with their iconic blue machines.

Jonathan Moore for Speedhunters takes us to the Musée Automobiles Matra for an inside look at the cars the forged Matra’s motorsport legacy.

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Underneath one of the two wind tunnels inside Toyota Motorsport’s Cologne facility rests a priceless collection of motorsport history.

See also:

• Speedhunters does Toyota Motorsport GmbH
• The infamous Toyota MR2 Group S

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XCAR take us inside Ford’s secret Heritage Shed in Essex, UK.

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dailysportscar visit Stephane Ratel’s ‘SRO Race Centre by MMC’ at the iconic Paul Ricard circuit in the South of France, home to an eclectic collection of old GT and sportscars.

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A 20 minute round up of the various projects underway in Jay Leno’s Big Dog Garage.

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Jonathan Moore for Speedhunters takes us inside Toyota’s Cologne-based motorsport HQ. A hard-to-access facility positively brimming with ex-WRC, Le Mans, and Formula 1 machinery, not to mention the odd one-of-a-kind prototype or homologation special.

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Some insight into Webber’s collection of contemporary Porsches, soon be joined by some classics from the sound of it.

Perhaps unsurprisingly:

“Probably my biggest prize possession is the 997 GT3 RS 4.0-litre…”

Webber is one of many F1 drivers known, as this article confirms, or rumoured to have a 997 GT2 RS lurking in their garages.

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Pistonheads visit Ten Tenths Racing, custodians of Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason’s collection of historic racing Ferraris.

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The eclectic cars of the former Fiat chairman, full of one of crazy one-off specials.

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GQ profiles Actor and Comedian Tim Allen and his broad car collection. Look out for his nutty LT5-powered ‘96 Chevy Impala.

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Speedhunters’ Mike Garrett:

“It’s part restoration garage, part race car maintenance facility, part showroom and part museum. In terms of privately owned temples of motoring, it’s surely one of the greatest in the world.”

Don’t forget to check out Part 2.

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M8, E46 M3 Touring, an early X5M concept, and an M3 Compact for starters.

We’d love to read more about each of these one-off proof of concepts.

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Pistonheads visit Ten Tenths Racing, custodians of Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason’s collection of historic racing Ferraris.