{"id":14857,"date":"2023-01-02T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/?p=14857"},"modified":"2023-01-18T08:22:26","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T11:22:26","slug":"top-5-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/02\/top-5-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 5 – 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I have to say that compared to 2021, 2022 was a much<\/em> better year. The COVID-19 pandemic was almost over and in general things got better. And in the 1:43 collecting front I think I can say it was a pretty good year. I got some nifty-good models for the W-143 Garage, even some very meaningful ones. The bad part is that my collection, as of now, has 483<\/mark><\/strong> cars \ud83d\ude32. I’m not at my limit for display space yet, however I’m getting close. So if 2023 is as “eventful” as 2022, for 2024 I may be in trouble…\ud83d\ude23 That’s one thing I’ll have to start thinking about. Well, since 2022 is history, it’s time for what I consider the best five models I got last year. And here they are, the Top 5 models of 2022<\/strong> (in chronological order):<\/p>\n\n\n

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1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR #20<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

1\ufe0f\u20e3 The car of the worst tragedy in the history of motorsports. Nonetheless, a fantastic model that means a lot to me exactly because of it’s history.<\/p>\n\n\n

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1953 Volkswagen Sedan 1100 + 1956 Kombi T1b “Herbie set”<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

2\ufe0f\u20e3 This year I got into my head that I needed a Beetle in my collection. Well, though I went a little<\/em> over one model, I think this set was the coolest. Yeah, yeah, it’s a set, TWO models, yet you can’t buy the two apart. <\/p>\n\n\n

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1973 Porsche 911 Carrera 3.0 RSR IROC #1<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

3\ufe0f\u20e3 Being honest, I’m not sure if I like more the model or the history behind the model. Even so, Spark a-c-e-d the car in scale.<\/p>\n\n\n

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1933 Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 MM #11<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

4\ufe0f\u20e3 The coolest of the pre-war Alfas, and a model that I thought I would have to do without in the W-143 Garage.<\/p>\n\n\n

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1970 917K #2 (Daytona)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

5\ufe0f\u20e3 I’m a HUGE 917 fanboy and also a Le Mans nut. However, The 1970 Daytona winner has possibly the coolest of all the 917 stories that I know of. And, the Spark version is very rare in 1:43.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have to say that compared to 2021, 2022 was a much better year. The COVID-19 pandemic was almost over and in general things got better. And in the 1:43 collecting front I think I can say it was a pretty good year. I got some nifty-good models for the W-143 Garage, even some very … Continue reading “Top 5 – 2022”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,21,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collectors-corner","category-miscellaneous","category-model-review"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14857"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15036,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14857\/revisions\/15036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}