{"title":"Dioramas","description":"\u003cp\u003eBuilt scenes that show the car in its world, at scale.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"bugatti-type-35-grand-prix-bright-blue-30-female-racer-cmc-1-18","title":"Bugatti Type 35 Grand Prix, Bright Blue #30 with Female Racer","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the 1920s and early 1930s a small number of women raced Grand Prix cars against the men, and CMC dedicates this set to those pioneering 'speed queens'. The best known of them was Hellé Nice, born Mariette Hélène Delangle, a dancer turned racing driver who made her name in Bugattis. In August 1931 she drove a blue Type 35 to ninth place in the Grand Prix du Comminges at Saint-Gaudens, carrying number 30. CMC names no particular driver for this set, but its colour and number sit comfortably with her story. The car itself was the Bugatti that won more than a thousand races: a 2-litre overhead-cam straight-eight in a slim body on cast alloy wheels, introduced at the Grand Prix de Lyon in 1924.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Type 35 is finished in a bright, clear blue, with the 30 in the radiator mesh and plates reading 2066-RD9. The bonnet lifts to show the straight-eight with its brass carburettors and copper lines, the spare is held to the flank by leather straps, and the cockpit has an engine-turned dashboard, a cord-bound wheel and a brown leather seat. Alongside stands the figurine: a woman driver in a red short-sleeved blouse and white trousers, with leather helmet and goggles, posed leaning against the car. Sold together as a two-piece set, it is limited to 600 pieces and built by CMC at 1:18.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CMC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67682716385493,"sku":"TAH-13166","price":3670.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/8519\/1637\/files\/TAH-13166-01.jpg?v=1791409862"},{"product_id":"bugatti-type-35-grand-prix-yellow-58-female-racer-cmc-1-18","title":"Bugatti Type 35 Grand Prix, Yellow #58 with Female Racer","description":"\u003cp\u003eEliška Junková, who raced as Elisabeth Junek, was the outstanding woman driver of the Bugatti era. At the 1928 Targa Florio she drove a black and yellow Type 35B carrying number 58, ran fourth on elapsed time after the first lap, barely 30 seconds behind Louis Chiron's works car, and was still in contention on the final lap when a puncture cost her two minutes and the stop left the engine overheating. She nursed the car home fifth of only twelve finishers, behind the winner, Albert Divo. Later that summer her husband, Čeněk Junek, was killed at the Nürburgring, and she gave up racing. CMC dedicates this yellow set to the 'speed queens' of the period without naming a driver, but number 58 was hers in Sicily.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Type 35 is painted a warm, even yellow with a black 58 on the bonnet sides, tan leather straps over the bonnet and spare wheel, and a tan leather seat. The louvred bonnet lifts to show the straight-eight with its brass carburettors and copper lines, and the cockpit has an engine-turned dashboard and a cord-bound wheel. Beside the car stands the figurine of a woman driver in belted white overalls, with leather helmet and goggles, hands on hips. Sold together as a two-piece set, it is limited to 600 pieces and built by CMC at 1:18.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CMC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67684712808661,"sku":"TAH-13174","price":3670.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/8519\/1637\/files\/TAH-13174-01.jpg?v=1791409937"},{"product_id":"porsche-911-targa-garage-diorama-orange-grey","title":"Porsche 911 Targa Garage Diorama, Orange \u0026 Grey","description":"\u003cp\u003ePorsche added the Targa to the 911 range for the 1967 model year: a stainless steel roll bar behind the front seats and a removable roof panel, named after the Targa Florio road race in Sicily, where Porsche had already won seven times. Targa is Italian for plate. The first cars had a removable plastic rear window, with fixed glass offered from 1968. The 2.4-litre engine of 1972 and 1973 gave the 911 S 190 PS, and for 1974 came the impact bumpers that would stay essentially unchanged for fifteen years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis diorama is a Porsche specialist's workshop with three Targas at different stages. On the cobbled floor stands a finished orange 911 S Targa on Fuchs-style alloys; above it, on a two-level rack, are a grey impact-bumper Targa without its wheels and a rusted orange shell. Around them are a yellow forklift, a blue engine crane with a flat-six on its hook, another engine on a pallet, oil drums, a pillar drill, seats, tyres and shelves of period oil tins, filters and boxes. The rendered walls carry a painted Porsche crest, Porsche 911 and Dunlop signs and a poster for the 1000 km of Monza of 25 April 1971, and strip lights under the timber roof beams light the scene. The whole room sits in a case with aluminium corner posts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Automotive House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67764021133525,"sku":"TAH-13327","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/8519\/1637\/files\/TAH-13327-01.jpg?v=1791975461"},{"product_id":"ferrari-250-testa-rossa-bare-metal-weathered","title":"Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa, Bare Metal, weathered","description":"\u003cp\u003eFerrari named the 250 Testa Rossa after its red cam covers. Beneath them sat a Colombo V12 of 2,953cc with six twin-choke Weber carburettors, good for 300 hp at 7,000 rpm. The customer cars wore the pontoon-fender body by Scaglietti, developed with Carlo Chiti, in which the front wings stand away from the nose to send cooling air to the brake drums. Ferrari built 33 Testa Rossas, 19 of them for private teams, and Testa Rossas won Le Mans in 1958, 1960 and 1961, the years in which Ferrari also took the World Sportscar Championship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis one is presented as a barn find. The body is bare metal, dented and streaked with old yellow paint and rust, one headlamp cover is broken, and the bonnet stands open over the six carburettors, the Ferrari script still raised on the faded red cam covers. Inside, the red seats are torn and the floor is strewn with sandpaper, rags, a string-tied booklet labelled Ferrari, a framed photograph of a racing car and a gilt ornament among scattered gold leaves. Beside the car stand aluminium trays, a bottle of balsamico and printed pages of cutaway drawings, and a loose body panel leans against one flank. All of the patina is an applied finish, and the panel where the rear number plate would sit is signed Lambert and dated 2026.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Automotive House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67764025426133,"sku":"TAH-13332","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/8519\/1637\/files\/TAH-13332-01.jpg?v=1791975546"},{"product_id":"porsche-356-a-1600-super-barn-find-diorama-white","title":"Porsche 356 A 1600 Super Barn Find Diorama, White, weathered","description":"\u003cp\u003ePorsche introduced the 356 A in late 1955, with a curved windscreen among a long list of small changes, and built 21,045 of them by 1959. The common engine was a 1,582 cc air-cooled flat-four with twin Zenith carburettors, offered in standard and S tune, and this car wears the badge of the stronger version: PORSCHE above 1600 SUPER on the engine lid, under the single grille. About 76,000 356s were made in all, first at Gmünd in Austria and from 1950 at Zuffenhausen. Someone has written AIR COOLED inside a heart in the dust on the glass.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis diorama shows a 356 A coupé left to stand for years. The weathering is a painted finish: rust bleeds through the ivory paint across the bonnet, roof and wings, the glass is filmed with dust, and straw lies over the roof, the bumpers and the wheel arches. A plank leans against the driver's door, and through the window the red seats are hung with cobwebs. Mobil cartons sit on the roof and the bonnet, with a Veedol sign propped beside them. Around the car are Mobiloil and Plume Motor Spirit crates, a red jerrycan, a spare tyre with a Martini sign, Castrol and Champion signs and a round red no-entry sign for cars and motorcycles. The scene is laid on earth and straw on a stepped black plinth. The car is at 1:12, and the diorama was made by hand in Germany.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Automotive House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67859820839125,"sku":"TAH-13531","price":36700.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/8519\/1637\/files\/TAH-13531-01.jpg?v=1792653596"},{"product_id":"bentley-speed-six-blue-train-garage-diorama-green","title":"Bentley Speed Six Blue Train Garage Diorama, Green, weathered","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn 13 March 1930 Woolf Barnato bet £100 that he could leave Cannes as Le Train Bleu pulled out and reach his London club before the train reached Calais. With Dale Bourn sharing the driving, he lost time to rain, fog and a burst tyre and still parked in St James's Street at 15:20, four minutes before the train reached Calais. He drove a Speed Six saloon bodied by H. J. Mulliner. The car modelled here is the one that took the name: the Gurney Nutting Sportsman Coupé he collected on 21 May 1930, two months after the race, and called the Blue Train Special. A fastback with no boot and a spare wheel on each side of the bonnet, it is often taken for the race car, Terence Cuneo's painting included.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere the coupé stands in a two-walled brick lock-up with a plank floor. One side of the bonnet is raised to show the engine, and the plates read GJ 3811. The green paint and black roof are weathered, chipped along the wings and worn on the edges. Bentley signs and a Bentley Motors advertisement hang on the walls, above a Castrol cabinet, a green oil drum with a pump and a workbench carrying a blue vice, Castrol cans, tools and a tray of parts. Spare tyres wait on a pallet, and the room sits on a stepped wooden base.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Automotive House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67859844563157,"sku":"TAH-13532","price":11000.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/8519\/1637\/files\/TAH-13532-01.jpg?v=1792653611"},{"product_id":"mercedes-benz-300-sl-gullwing-garage-diorama-silver","title":"Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Gullwing Garage Diorama, Silver, weathered","description":"\u003cp\u003eMax Hoffman, Mercedes-Benz's importer in the United States, put the case for a road version of the W194 racing car to the company's directors in 1953, and the 300 SL coupé was shown at the New York International Auto Show in February 1954. Rudolf Uhlenhaut's spaceframe of chrome-molybdenum steel tubes ran so high along the sides that ordinary doors would not work, so the doors were hinged in the roof. The 2,996 cc straight-six was tilted 50 degrees to fit under the low bonnet and fed by Bosch mechanical direct injection. Mercedes built 1,400 coupés between 1954 and 1957.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis diorama finds one of them long after, in a timber-beamed workshop with a cobbled floor. The silver paint is worn through and streaked with grime, both gullwing doors and the bonnet stand open, and the red cabin is faded and dusty. The rear plate reads 300-SL. A spare door leans in a corner against a tyre and a front wing rests on a crate. Around the car are tall timber cupboards, one open on boxes marked Bosch and Magneti Marelli, a rack of tools, a pair of overriders with a spare number plate, oak barrels, shelves of oil tins and two Mercedes-Benz signs, one a blue Service roundel. The room is built into a glazed case with black corner posts, closed at one end by a rendered wall with a window. It was made in Germany.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Automotive House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68019513655509,"sku":"TAH-13558","price":11000.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/8519\/1637\/files\/TAH-13558-01.jpg?v=1793198176"},{"product_id":"volkswagen-beetle-honda-cb750-barn-find-diorama-green","title":"Volkswagen Beetle and Honda CB750 Barn Find Diorama, Pale Green, weathered","description":"\u003cp\u003eVolkswagen built the Beetle from 1938 to 2003, 21,529,464 of them, each with an air-cooled flat-four in the tail driving the rear wheels, and on 17 February 1972 it passed the Ford Model T as the best-selling car of all time. The last one left the Puebla plant in Mexico on 30 July 2003. The motorcycle parked beside it comes from the other side of the world. Honda showed the CB750 at the Tokyo Show in November 1968 and put it on sale in 1969 with a transverse four-cylinder engine of 736 cc, a single overhead camshaft and a front disc brake, and the word superbike was coined to describe it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this diorama both have been left to the straw. The Beetle's pale green paint is freckled with rust, one door has been replaced by a panel in red-brown primer and one front wing is bare grey, and cobwebs hang from the bumpers, mirrors and windscreen. A spare wheel lies on the roof and an Esso parcel on the bonnet. Behind it a flat-four engine sits on a pallet beside its silencer and a torn tarpaulin, and the red Honda, dusty and spotted with rust, carries webs across its handlebars and wire wheels. A step ladder, a jerrycan, cardboard boxes, loose hubcaps and Veedol, Martini and Firestone signs complete the scene, laid on a stepped dark green plinth. 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The company moved to Maranello in 1943, but the script on the flank of this transporter still reads Ferrari Automobili, Modena, Italia, above the prancing horse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe diorama imagines the transporter and its cargo left to rot in a yard. The red paint is scabbed with rust and mud, a corroded crane leans over the cab, and Dunlop, Magneti Marelli and Shell decals still show on the bodywork. A yellow sports racer numbered 21 sits on the upper deck. Around the truck lie the shells of more racing cars in red, yellow and white, numbered 10, 18, 20, 22, 34, 43 and 120, several without wheels and propped on timber. The red 10 has P. Rodriguez and Mexico lettered on its body, and the yellow 43 carries a rally plate. Loose tyres and wire wheels, a Texaco pump, an engine hoist and a red Ferrari Automobili sign are scattered over grey ground grown through with yellow lichen, on a stepped black base.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Automotive House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68019524305109,"sku":"TAH-13560","price":6610.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/8519\/1637\/files\/TAH-13560-01.jpg?v=1793198209"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.automotivehouse.com\/collections\/dioramas.oembed","provider":"The Automotive House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}