(Pics) 1919 Fiat 501Sport

Beautiful photos again Mike!   I don't have the 501 but have this other blue Rio 1932 Fiat!

These Fiats are cute Mike. I have all the Rio Fiats but you might not have seen this one. This Fiat fits in between the two shown.

No.14 DUGU of Italy, 1924 Fiat 509 Sedan.

Love your backgrounds on your Fiat Mike, and Karl, is yours from that special series released in the USA which included the Tekno Jaguar E-Type?

Posted by: @karl

Beautiful photos again Mike!   I don't have the 501 but have this other blue Rio 1932 Fiat!

Thanks, Karl ! That hardtop '32 Fiat looks excellent.

Posted by: @david-green

These Fiats are cute Mike. I have all the Rio Fiats but you might not have seen this one. This Fiat fits in between the two shown.........

The DUGU 1924 Fiat is especially nice. An especially attractive hardtop Fiat in red !

Posted by: @david-green  

Love your backgrounds on your Fiat Mike, and Karl, is yours from that special series released in the USA which included the Tekno Jaguar E-Type?

https://www.maronline.org.uk/the-brown-box-mystery/ - I wrote about these several years ago; you are one of the few, David, who has heard of them!  Do you know anything more than what I wrote back then?

@karl 

Hi Karl,

Thank you for reminding me of the MAR brown box mystery. I see that one Dugu made that series. I also looked at the MAR September 24 article about Dugu and yours and mine article here on The Model Digest back in January 2021.

I had a complete set of the Dugu models back in the 1970s including the Turin Museum 1/50 models and the 1923 Fiat Eldrige sold under the Zeppelin label after their demise.

I currently have a dozen or still, having traded or sold the rest, mostly in my storage boxes but I will show a few here.

Dugu Miniautotoys released 24 models in the 1/43 range and 14in the Turin Museum 1/50 series.

As you likely know, Dugu Miniautotoys was started by Bartolomeo Chiodo in Varallia Sespla, Piedmont, Italy in 1956. He stopped production in 1974 but another name was used, Sispla for an additional year, plus a few models like the Fiat Eldridge appeared under a few different names later such as Oldtoy and Zeppelin.

Here are two other Fiats of mine shown earlier here, for which I had images.

No. 4 1907 Fiat F2 130hp Grand Prix Car

 No.17 1934 Fiat 508 Balillia Coppa D'Oro ( I just realized that I had two of this one.)

 I have a brochure somewhere which I will try to find.

Interesting old Fiat, with those fabric sides, David, and those "real" chain drives.  It looked familiar, and look what I found:

At one time I had an interest in old race cars, and here's what I gathered.

Wonder what's missing on that top shelf?  Whatever. . .  it's probably around here somewhere.  Thanks for waking me up!

            David H  

A close up of those fabric doors and chain.

I love that Fiat F2 with the chain drive - it seems several of us have it!  I also have the Fiat Eldridge (DUGU unmarked), a much more modern car from 1923!  🤣 

One more ancient Fiat racer, the S76.

I rid myself of Dugus long ago because so many were subject to wheel melt (interaction between wheel and tire). A few, such as the Lancia Lambda, have yet to appear elsewhere.