At the beginning of this year, I filled another long lasting gap in my collection. A discussion with Fer last Fall sort of reminded me that I had been looking for it since long, and somehow had given up. Fer told me that he luckily had found a Solido cabrio 6C2500 of the late 40s early 50s.
I was lucky enough that in the next few weeks I came across, not only the Alfa itself, but a whole set "Solido Junior 6" with a near mint Alfa, further 3 bodies, the two chassis, spring loaded engine and all what you need for assembling two cars, one with engine and one without, the gap being filled - and other parts being hold together - with a tin plate.
Such a set is quite more attractive than the single car, as it revives the joy of the boy, 60 years ago, who had the luck of receiving such a set: it should have been marvelous at the time to play with those cars, swapping bodies etc.
Here it is:
The Alfa inside is the best preserved: did the boy refrain from playing with it because of the fragility of its windscreen, or, as said a friend of mine, was it the "unloved toy" that therefore arrived until our times unscathed?
It has to be said that this Alfa cabrio has the appeal of the old toy, but is also... pretty ugly!
So here it is assembled without engine
and with the engine installed
There seem to be two types of engines, a fast and a slow one, and the side where the rewinding key has to be inserted tells one from the other. Not sure about this, but I noticed that rewinding only half a rev already liberates a very strong movement!
A few more pictures of this Solido Alfa 6C2500 Cabrio can be seen here
