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Vitesse Models
Vitesse was started in 1982 as a Portuguese company making diecast cars mostly in 1:43 scale. It was founded in the city of Oporto and is a brand name of Cinerius, Ltd.
==The Fit of Vitesse==
Models were originally fabricated in Portugal and were of great detail and sophistication. The company gained increasing popularity in the late 1980s and 1990s. Models were often similar in concept to French Solido, though less toy-like and more oriented to collectors. So, conceptually, Vitesse models fall somewhere between Solido and the Italian Brumm. Though diecast, and quite handsome, models were rather fragile. Pieces tended to fall off, bodies separated from chassis and paint sometimes peeled - but in good condition they were (and are) a wonder to behold.
By about 1992, Vitesse had produced about 40 different models, often in top up or top down versions like Brumm or Rio Models. Models were offered in plenty of liveries. For example, by 1990, the 1947 Chrysler Windsor model (a car also produced by Solido) had been produced in at least eight different versions: a plain sedan, New York City police, San Francisco Fire Brigade, Istanbul Taxi, official French government car, a French voisin 'pompiers', a Hot Springs National Park hotel taxi, and a clever Zippo lighters version with the middle of the car looking like two zippo lighters standing up together (Vitesse 1990).
It seems Vitesse didn't always take itself too seriously. Vitesse referred to its rather fragile offerings self-deprecatingly as 'toys'. The 1990 full-color catalog cover showed a '57 Buick as a planter, 2 CVs with live rabbits, a VW bug cabriolet nearly being 'driven' by a golf club, and a '53 Caddy between two buns - our next meal (Vitesse 1990).
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