Last month in upstate New York, Andrea and I went flea market digging before Sarah and Justin’s wedding. I found this beat up 1/62-scale Tomica model of Rolf Stommelen’s 1978 Toyota Celica Turbo. He raced this in the 1978 of Germany’s DRM, which proved to be an awful season, rife with DNFs. Stommelen was one of the best sportscar drivers of his time (he won Daytona four times) in addition to his time in Formula 1 and a small stint in NASCAR. He died behind the wheel of his Porsche 935 at Riverside in 1983. I like this picture of Rolf best.
