#518 Siku Plastik – Fiat 600 (V49) (Around 1958)

This is my oldest Siku model, as well as the entirely ane I ain made of plastic. It represents a Fiat 600, which is the model that could involvement me the almost from the whole range, since the Fiat 600 is identical to the Seat 600, as well as this ane is past times far the almost pop Castilian car.

I establish it at a flea marketplace position as well as bought it real cheap, otherwise I approximate I would accept never bid for it equally it ordinarily ends alongside real high prices.

My model is calorie-free blue/grey, simply at that topographic point are likewise ane version inwards white. It tin hand notice live that the motorcar was originally calorie-free blue, simply alongside the role (mine is non perfect) it turned to grey.

No thing what, I’m actually happy alongside the model, as well as I volition buy the farm on it together alongside other Seat 600 I collected.

Siku Plastik trouble started inwards 1954, as well as was from the starting fourth dimension a 1:60 scale trouble of vehicles as well as accesories. Siku dealt since it's foundation alongside plastics as well as produced a dandy diversity of toys as well as objects for daily life inwards unlike plastic componds, as well as thence they already mastered the fabrication of modest objects inwards this stuff when the Plastik trouble came to life.

The scale selection was something intermediate to the European 1:43 as well as the 1:90 that at the fourth dimension was using Wiking (in Germany).

The next year, Sikualready had 55 motorcar models, to a greater extent than than seventy accesories as well as to a greater extent than than 120 traffic signs. Cars were all mutual vehicles of the time, almost of them German. Year later twelvemonth the publish of models increased. Up to twenty novel models each time!

By 1958, Siku Plastik counted to a greater extent than than 100 models, agency to a greater extent than than Wiking.

The trouble was complemented alongside or as well as thence Street plans, were you lot could house all Siku accesories (buildings similar shops, garages, schools, stations; modest figures, street lamps, traffic signs, traffic lights, trees... Some of these sets were fifty-fifty offered to driving schools, equally they include ítems to simulate/explain every possible traffic situation.