Notifications
Clear all
Topic starter
16/12/2021 5:53 pm
This one caught my eye and so I got it! Then I had to look it up to see what I had purchased. Here's the best definition I could find:
From Daniel Beck’s Model Car Collection web site
Lorenzi Modellismo, a model car shop in Malcesine on Lake Garda, started selling exclusive limited edition 1/43rd scale models under its own brand name in the 1990s, commissioned to the Italian manufacturers Brumm, Progetto K and Art Model/Best. The range included promotional models with the logo of the shop, mainly Fiat cars and vans made by Brumm, but also sports and racing cars in special colour schemes and racing liveries. In 1998, the company released a series of twelve Ferrari cars made by Art Model and Best to commemorate the historical Mille Miglia race: Each model is painted in white and features an Italian map with the racing course of particular years printed on the bonnet. Later Lorenzi Modellismo issued models of racing cars in authentic liveries and road cars in special colours under the U.A.N. brand name. This name was also used for a series of military vehicles based on Rio products, as well as for a range with simple and inexpensive Chinese-made 1/43rd scale diecast models of contemporary racing touring cars.
So here it is:
It's not like anything else in my collection, but I'm not sure it that's positive or negative. What do you think?
David H 
16/12/2021 6:48 pm
I love it!
I also love my two.
Retired in Dunedin, Florida.
16/12/2021 6:53 pm
I like the map! Seems a bit old for that car though! 🤔 They also did a bunch of Alfa TZ1s - I have a 33.2 race car from 1968 of theirs though... Bought 15 years ago.
16/12/2021 7:31 pm
Here's a couple of 340 Mexicos that Art Model did in authentic liveries.
17/12/2021 1:15 pm
@ed-glorius Thanks Ed! Actually I need to re-photograph all my Art models - I think these were made with an old Sony Mavica!
Ed Glorius and Ed Glorius reacted
Topic starter
17/12/2021 4:45 pm
One more question. Please remember that my background does NOT include auto racing and/or Ferrari. Why is this model shown with right-hand steering? I see others with the same set-up pictured above.
John Kuvakas and John Kuvakas reacted
18/12/2021 12:55 pm
"ALL old Alfa's & Lancia's were RHD until as late as the early 1950's when they started making LHD. Italy used to drive on the left, so this follows.
I suggest that Ferrari when starting out in 1947 built RHD cars, simply because that was their Countries "standard" a RHD and to match their competition in their home market."
Also, racing circuits.
Retired in Dunedin, Florida.
Topic starter
19/12/2021 11:42 pm
Thanks, Ed. Good site, too!