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New in the archive: the Radio section
21.09.2026
The archive has a new section under Accessories: Radio. Five makes and twenty-three sets, from valve radios of the late 1950s to the pull-out pocket set of 1980. Autovox and Voxson came from Rome, Incis from Saronno; then Philips from Eindhoven and Sonora from Puteaux near Paris. The 500 never had room for a radio…
Puzzles: the section has been rebuilt
04.09.2026
The Puzzles section of the archive has been rebuilt. Instead of two photographs it now lists nine puzzles with their details: manufacturer, number of pieces, finished size, edition and, where there is one, the EAN. The range is wide — from the 54-piece Ravensburger to four puzzles of 1000 pieces. The Ravensburger comes from Disney…
Formula 875 revised — a great deal of new material
29.08.2026
The Formula 875 section has been thoroughly revised. The largest single piece is the entry list of the very first race, the 1ª Coppa Cadetti 875 Monza of May 1965: 48 entries with race number, driver, team and car. It now appears in full on the section page. Among other things it shows that Lella…
Ferves: photos from the first Ferves meeting
21.08.2026
The Ferves page now shows six photos from the first Ferves meeting. It took place on 2 July 2016 in Garlenda, set within the international Fiat 500 meeting, for the 50th anniversary of the Ranger, first shown to the public in 1966 at the Turin Motor Show.
Savio: the company, four cars and three registers
21.08.2026
The Savio section has grown. The main page now has a part on the history of the company, and four cars have pages of their own: the two-seat Spider, the four-seat beach car Spider Elegance, the Jungla and the Albarella 500. For the company, the page gives the register number and both company addresses. On…
LAB: company history, register and period photos
19.08.2026
The LAB page in the Formula 875 section has been rewritten. The text on Lavorazione Artigiana Berna of Melegnano now names the Conca brothers as the builders, the construction with the tubular frame embedded in glass fibre and resin, and the successes: the drivers’ titles of 1967 and 1973 and the constructors’ standings of 1973.…
Zanella: register, documentation and the Erina brochure
19.08.2026
The Zanella Erina now has a register of its own: seven cars, listed by their registration number, with pictures from the workshop, from meetings and from a museum. The car from the brochure is among them. A documentation page has been added as well: the four-page original brochure of Carrozzeria Fratelli Zanella can be leafed…
New page: Fissore with the Aruanda and Mongho 650
19.08.2026
Fissore has been added to the derivatives: the family firm from Savigliano south of Turin, which went from horse-drawn carts by way of special bodies to the bodies of the Swiss Monteverdi. Two of its cars are built on the 500 – the Aruanda of 1965, a city car designed by a Brazilian architecture student,…
Caprera: the company, the Ragno and the saloon
19.08.2026
The Caprera page has gained a section on the company. Caprera was a small Turin workshop, named after the Via Caprera: it assembled and painted bodyshells for the big names, built its first cars of its own in 1959, the «Capri» spider and the «Amalfi» saloon, and later kept going with commercial vehicles and upmarket…
New page: Coriasco and the camioncino 500 «RATIN»
19.08.2026
Coriasco has been added to the derivatives: the Turin coachbuilder that in Italy stands for the small, light delivery van. The page brings together the company history, the coachbuilder’s plate and a leaflet advertising the camioncino 500 «RATIN», a pick-up on the 500 Giardiniera – «Ratin» is Piedmontese for «little mouse». Nothing else about this…