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[Beetle_Guy]

I kind of struggled with the question of which sub-forum to put this in. It's kind of a truck and it's kind of a motorcycle.  
But whatever it is, it's all quirk and that's why it made it into my collection. From what I can gather, the Ape (Italian for "bee") is essentially a 50cc Vespa with two rear wheels and a truck box. Simple, yet effective.

Regarding the model, I'm not sure what to say. It's very, very overpriced (I paid $37.50!) for what you get. It looks...cheap (especially inside)...but the 1:1 isn't exactly a showcase of premium materials either. Were it, say, half that price it would feel better. Still, I'm happy to have it and I suppose you have to pay the price if you want weird stuff in your collection like I do.






Class-leading 170kg payload, according to Piaggio.


A highly luxurious cabin. I think that's a cupholder between the windshield and handlebars. Perfect straw height for Slurpees on the go!  


For sense of scale, it fits snugly into a short box supercrew F150!  

Clearly, not a model for everyone's collection. But something I quite enjoy. Thanks for looking!

Edited by Beetle_Guy, 06 May 2010 - 01:11 AM.

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[Nocky]

Where on earth did you get that from?

Doesn't look too bad on the outside.

Nice find

Peter

[acisne]

Neat! I would love to get one to ad to my Vespa models, but on eBay, they currently go for $50+!!!

[dbonser]

Very cool! It reminds me of some of the bigger versions in Taiwan. EWA had 1:43 scale models very similar to what you see below - I really should have bought some of these models when EWA was blowing out their stock!
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BTW, I just love this picture:

Beetle_Guy, on 06 May 2010 - 01:08 AM, said:

For sense of scale, it fits snugly into a short box supercrew F150!  

Edited by dbonser, 06 May 2010 - 07:27 AM.

[Beetle_Guy]

Nocky, on 06 May 2010 - 04:46 AM, said:

Where on earth did you get that from?

Doesn't look too bad on the outside.

Nice find

Peter

Nocky, on 06 May 2010 - 04:46 AM, said:

Where on earth did you get that from?

Doesn't look too bad on the outside.

Nice find

Peter

Scale18.com has a few different ones. This one, one in black, and three more "Calessino" tuktuks.

acisne, on 06 May 2010 - 06:56 AM, said:

Neat! I would love to get one to ad to my Vespa models, but on eBay, they currently go for $50+!!!

I guess I did well on the price then. I wonder why the price is so high.  

dbonser, on 06 May 2010 - 07:26 AM, said:

Very cool! It reminds me of some of the bigger versions in Taiwan. EWA had 1:43 scale models very similar to what you see below - I really should have bought some of these models when EWA was blowing out their stock!
P1120749.jpg

That thing is just bizarre. For some reason that reminds me of the bodiless chassis trucks I rode in Mexico.

[acisne]

The price on ebay reflect that the sellers are in Japan.  

[kennytuning]

I'm sorry that i reply on this (old) topic
they are not really expensive in Italy , friday I am going on a holiday to Italy , they cost around 30€ there in the local "toy" store !
I am going to buy one , and maybe sell it for a profit (or maybe buy 2 :lol: )