AUTO AVIO COSTRUZIONI 815

Production limited to 300 numbered units

is served on request. Check availability.

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In 1939 Enzo Ferrari left Alfa Romeo due to the decline of his influence as head of competition projects back to Modena, firmly convinced of his ideas. However, the constraints of the contract with Alfa Romeo Enzo precluded use your own name for four years for running and appeared Auto Avio Costruzioni, a company specializing in the production of mechanical components for automobiles and aircraft in the former premises of the Street Scuderia Trento e Trieste. Overcoming all obstacles and impediments Ferrari and his team managed just five months build two small spiders commissioned by the son of Antonio Ascari, Alberto, and Lothario Rangoni Marquis, called 815 and being regarded as the first Ferrari built.class="Estilo20"

The 815 was born with a Carrozzeria Touring design panels made of aluminum magnesium alloy, and a chassis and an engine of 1.5 liters and 8 cylinders that still amazes Fiat origin engineers of today, the result of joining two 4-cylinder engines of the popular Fiat Balilla, getting 72 horse power with a weight of 625 kg, capable of propelling the car to 175 km / h. Were enrolled in the Mille Miglia of 1940, leading its category, with a creditable tenth place overall and fastest lap, until its abandonment by mechanical problems with one lap to go, but Ferrari had shown everyone what he already knew could build a competitive race car counting only with himself and with his trusted team. Unfortunately the war stopped all activity related to the competition. The unit is piloted by Alberto Ascari the Modelant reproduced. class="Estilo20"

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IN SLOT

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The Auto Avio 815 is the first model Modelant, and in it we have applied all our philosophy to create a slot car purely handmade. Designed from photographs and drawings, modeled strict scale 1/32 from a block of putty using only hand tools assists fleeing computer or industrial machinery, and manufactured in a traditional way, one by one, by hand. class="Estilo20"

Our replica has wanted to be faithful to the original model created by Enzo Ferrari in 1940, which is why sometimes you will find some differences with photographs of current restoration, such as including a rearview mirror, intermittent front and rear lights or the front and rear license plate needed to meet current traffic regulations, as well as the logo '815 ', nonexistent in origin.

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mechanics MRRC we have chosen, the chassis gives it a noble behavior on the slopes while being distinctly a product of collector, and will use a transparent box with a careful presentation.