Collectors’ Corner

Rivarossi also made small racing cars. This Mercedes monoposto, recorded in our museum as model AM 1, has a reddish-brown Bakelite body, dark wheel centres, an open cockpit and a long pointed tail. Two bands of ventilation detail run along the bonnet. Founder Alessandro Rossi later recalled how a demonstration at the Milan Fair had impressed him: powder was placed in a mould, pressed, and emerged as a finished ashtray.…