If you’re a fan of GT Spirit scale models the team has three more new models to share from their January deliveries. The feature finds the 1:18 Audi Performance Parts R8. The remaining two, and in 1:18 scale include the little American muscle, the Dodge Challenger Scat Pack Wide Body in Purple and for tuner fans the 1:18 Koenig Special F50.
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I’ll be getting the F50. I have all the other Koenigs by GT Spirit. There was only one of those ever made in 1:1 and it was in red. That other “asian market edition” is nonsense.
In 1990 I was at the Geneva Auto Salon, when Koenig introduced the Evolution model (Tesrarossa). I actually met Willi Koenig (spelling?) at his stand and he gave me a really cool lapel pin of his logo and a very nice brochure. Both long gone with no idea where they went. Koenig Specials was for the auto industries in the ‘90s the same shock to the system , that Star Wars was to the movie industry in the ‘70s. Just imagine for a minute the idea of a 1000 hp, twin turbo, wide body Testarossa in 1990!!! Some guys put fender flares on exotics today with big negative offset wheels and some stickers and everyone’s “Wow, radical! How creative!” Koenig thit that at a much higher level 30 years ago.