Funny Italian Auto Team Autohianchi A112

[oldcarfan]

 I loved driving these little time bombs when I was in Italy. The kit is a 1/24th scale Autobianchi A112 made by Fujimi. It is amazing how tiny this car is. I thought at first it was a 1/32 scale kit, but no! It would almost fit in the bed of a standard American pickup.   I bought the kit a long time ago and did a decent job I thought. Time was not kind to it however. The paint had gotten badly damaged, so I stripped and repainted it, and the tires were severely cracked. I couldn't even get the tires off without them coming apart, so I brushed thick acrylic paint into the cracks to help cover them. I learned a few lessons on this rebuild, such as Sharpie ink does not come off of fresh paint, no matter what you try. Over all, I am happy with it for now.

   

[Craig Irwin]

I'm not familiar with Autobianchi autos, but I like basic "get you there" type of cars, interesting.

[Rider]

That is one little car, looks like it could have been a mid '80 version of a Mini. 

[oldcarfan]

• It was a supermini off shoot of the Fiat 128. I remember seeing one of these in Naples. It had dad, mom, three kids and grandma in it and it had a giant roof rack on top overflowing with all their vacation stuff, waiting for the ferry to Capri.

[Rider]

Lol, what ever works. 

Very nice weathering on the windows BTW. It  looks like a bunch of kids with sticky hands and a dog with a wet nose went on a long road trip, nice touch. 

[Foxer]

That's pretty cool and a very unusual model to see!

[XJ6]

Interesting and it looks Great ?

[Hubert Rollins]

A point A to point B ride. Pretty neat model.