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Fiat 500 Jolly Green Norev 1:18

Fiat 500 Jolly Green Norev 1:18
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Specifications
Brand
Fiat
Manufacturer
Norev
Scale
1:18
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
New Model
SKU
187794
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About the Fiat 500 Jolly Green Norev 1:18

TL;DR: Norev's 1:18 Fiat 500 Jolly reproduces the 1965 Ghia-built beach car in green, with an opening panel, wicker-style seating, and a fringed canopy cast in fine diecast detail. A distinctive, lighthearted centerpiece for collectors who want something other than another coupe on the shelf.

Fiat never built the Jolly itself. Carrozzeria Ghia stripped a 500 down to its floorpan, swapped in wicker seats, and fitted a fringed canvas roof, creating a bespoke resort car for buyers who wanted a yacht tender that could also putter around a marina town. Norev's diecast keeps that oddity intact.

Ghia's Beach Car and Norev's 1:18 Casting

A Coachbuilt Curiosity, Not a Factory Trim

Fiat built the 500 as cheap, honest transportation. Carrozzeria Ghia took that platform and built something else entirely for a brief run between the late 1950s and mid-1960s, stripping the body down, deleting the doors, and fitting wicker bucket seats under a fringed canvas canopy. The result was marketed as a yacht tender and resort runabout, sold through Fiat's own dealer network but built well outside the standard production line. Owners used them on Mediterranean docksides and private islands rather than city streets, which is part of why surviving originals carry such a specific kind of rarity today.

Norev's Approach to a Non-Standard Body

This Fiat 500 Jolly sits outside Norev's usual Renault, Peugeot, and Citroen focus, a sign the manufacturer treats distinctive subjects as worth the tooling investment regardless of marque. That kind of commitment to a low-volume subject signals a willingness to chase a good story even when the production run will never match a Clio or a 205 GTI. Casting a car with no doors and an open wicker interior demands different tooling priorities than a sealed sedan body: the seat weave, the canopy ribs, and the dashboard details all sit in the open, visible from every angle rather than hinted at through a window.

Wicker Seats, Fringed Canopy, and an Opening Body

What Opens on This Casting

Unlike a sealed display casting, this Jolly includes a panel that opens, and it moves with real resistance rather than swinging loose on a weak hinge. That detail matters more here than on an ordinary sedan, since the Jolly's open-air design means there is nowhere for assembly tolerances to hide. Lift the panel and the engineering underneath, or the storage space it reveals, becomes part of what the model has to get right, unlike a closed coupe where that same mechanism would stay hidden from view.

Green Paint Against Wicker and Chrome

The green paint sits on a diecast body with the same metal weight and durability that defines Norev's wider range, and under a display light it reads clean against the wicker-textured seats and the chrome strip trim the real cars carried. The fringed canopy edge is cast with enough separation from the body color that it reads as fabric rather than a flat tampo print, and the simplified dashboard still carries a legible gauge cluster given how much of the cabin sits exposed to view. Zinc alloy construction also means this piece carries real shelf-life durability, resisting the fading and warping that a lighter composite body might suffer under years of window-side display light.

A Conversation Piece Among Classic Italian Diecast

Most 1960s Italian diecast on a collector's shelf is a Ferrari or an Alfa, cars built to go fast. The Jolly earns its place by doing the opposite, a reminder that the same era produced playful, bespoke machines for people who wanted something unlike the family sedan the Fiat badge mostly built. At 1:18, roughly 20cm long given the original 500's compact footprint, it sits comfortably between larger coupes without needing extra shelf space, and it also serves a practical role for collectors mixing scales and eras on one shelf, leaving plenty of room beside larger GT and muscle car castings.

Original price was: 60.00 €.Current price is: 57.00 €.
Original price was: 60.00 €.Current price is: 57.00 €.
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