T2#055. FIAT

T2#055	FIAT
real name	Ferrari 126C4
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We are talking about the latest source code from the magnificent folio

"Automobile Year 1984 # 32"

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Today we are talking about the latest source code from the magnificent folio "Automobile Year 1984 #32", so that tomorrow we can move on to an even more valuable and rare book.

The extensive "Class Warfare" section dedicated to Formula 1 by Peter Windsor is like a book within a book. Powerfully illustrated with the most magnificent color and crisp black and white images, it occupies 54 pages and describes all 16 Grand Prix that took place in 1984. In addition, special beige pages at the end of the book contain background information - a page for each race: configuration, date/time, location, lap record, classification results, race results and a special diagram "lap-rider's place". I can imagine my reaction if I had known in 1989 that there were tons of information hidden behind the Turbo No. 55 insert, every bit of which was worth its weight in gold at that time.

In the summer of 2017, I wrote: "Already in 1990, neither the inscription "FIAT" nor the technical specifications on this insert inspired confidence in me." But today I remembered something exactly the opposite. Around the same 90th, my dad and I went to an exhibition of models by a certain private collector. The exposition was deployed in the building opposite the DLT, if my memory serves me correctly, it was not the then-active Lutheran Cathedral of St. Mary. So, among the mass of Soviet-made models (in all variations and colors) there were also "branded models". The most striking and memorable were the formula Ferraris. There were no signatures next to the models, but on the sides (exactly like the Ferrari 126X4 from the liner) there were blue "FIAT" diamonds. I then decided that these were racing fiats, which perfectly "fit" what was written on the Turbo.

This is not visible on the insert, but in the photo in the book, especially in the photo from above, you can clearly see the same blue fiata diamonds, according to which the Turks made the same conclusion as I did at the age of nine, especially since the name of the car, as well as its characteristics, are not in the signature.

Well, if someone wants to refresh their knowledge of the Ferrari 126C4 and see its real characteristics, you can read the article on the website, it is also a chapter from the book "Turbo. When childhood begins at 51."

Ferrari 126C4. Artwork by Marcin Adamczyk