Amalgam officially announces the 1:18 Ferrari F40 in Ferrari Red. The F40 might be one of the most iconic cars of the modern era, and one that has seen many versions in scale. And some replicas should have remained ideas not actual production pieces. The Amalgam piece is definitely nice, but nice will cost you $595US. This is before freight, exchange and duties… Also the model is 100% sealed and made of resin, not like some of the cool 1:8 pieces with opening bits. We’re okay with the diecast metal release from Kyosho with opening parts. Find one if you can!
About the Ferrari F40… “The F40 continued the extreme machine philosophy cultivated by its predecessor the GTO, but took it to new levels. It was greeted with great enthusiasm by enthusiasts and the number of examples eventually built exceeded the company’s wildest dreams. During the mid eighties there were various spy pictures in motoring magazines of a radical prototype(s) around the streets of Maranello, with all sorts of hypothesis as to its raison d’etre. It subsequently transpired that the car was what became known as the “Evoluzione”, a test bed for the upcoming F40.
A total of five “Evoluzione” models were built for evaluation purposes, four of which were eventually sold to private clients, and the fifth retained by the factory. When the F40 was eventually announced in the middle of 1987 its Pininfarina designed body took everybody’s breath away, it was raw and mean, a car that looked like a racing model, but that was totally road legal and could be driven to the shops if desired. The F40 model title was derived from “F” for Ferrari and 40 represented the fortieth anniversary of Ferrari car production. It was also the last new car presentation attended by Enzo Ferrari before his death in August 1988.
The only trace elements of the 308 ancestry remained around the cabin profile and satin black painted side indent line, otherwise the radical body styling was all new, as were its construction materials. The low mean and wide front end flowed via an eclectic array of cooling slots and intake ducts through to the tail, with its panoramic rear screen under which lay the engine, and behind which projected the high mounted integral full width wing, that presented the ultimate eighties power statement. The public loved it, and queues of clients formed cheque book in hand, to join the waiting list, despite Ferrari refusing to say exactly how many would be built and over what period. This was to try and negate a repeat of the extraordinary clamour for the GTO, and thus left production open ended, but it did nothing to calm the storm. It was just so radical, so fast and so covetable, that people wanted it, and they wanted it now!
At the height of the supercar boom in 1989 they were changing hands at around a million pounds! Production continued through to 1992, during which time 1311 examples were produced in the chassis number range 76624 to 95317, nearly five times as many as the GTO. Racing versions with the suffixes LM and GT-E were developed by Michelotto of Padova, and enjoyed success over a number of years during the nineties in European GT racing with various private entrants”
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That’s incredibly overpriced in my opinion for a 1:18 resin, $300 will get you diecast Kyosho version……….I know they are rare…….l.but they are out there.
At first glance, I thought this was a Bburago model – The one they released back in the late 1980s. But when I looked in detail, I realised of course it wasn’t. The Bburago model had opening parts.
I bought one 2 weeks ago, but I was terribly disappointed, first the left mirror was unstuck, ok the proportions of the model are hyper realistic inside breathes the worry of the detail but frankly it does not Is worth absolutely not 595 euros, just an example the exhaust pipe is not hollowed out that it looks like the bburago, worse the model at that price there is not even limited numbered edition, the engine lacked cruelly detail, No hoses, visible cables, and too much painted elements, not to mention the flat bottom, which is nothing more than a plastic plate that does not reveal any element of the chassis. I sent back the model and I asked them for some explanations they did not deny me, I clearly expected another standard and especially another style of communication, it is as if they had nothing To make their client 1/18 that is why I would like to warn you … I am a collector of CMC, Exoto and autoart, it is the first time I bought a resin model since j I have a lookmart 488 GTE of resin mans between us for half the price of an amalgam is much better … for me Amalgam wanted to democratize but they did not do things properly. We agree I am talking here only models with 1/18 and I remain very admiring this brand for their 1/8 model.
Wow, not good news. If possible we’d love to see a full review on the model. Can you supply the write-up with photos? We’ll take care of the rest. Cheers
How can I do to send you the pictures?
Email us the words and images here: info [at] diecastsociety [dot] com
Can you send me some pictures of the f40