1935 Gran Turismo Auto Sedan (20 inch) Navy Blue Tinplate Wind-up Toy Car, by Payá Hermanos (#P-904). Packaging Condition: GOOD/GREAT - Comes in original packaging w/catalog and Certificate of Authenticity (Unsealed, will be secure); w/minor scuffs and denting to outer packaging (due to storage) - see pics. Limited Edition 2,042/5,000. Includes: Steering wheel, steerable front wheels, two (2) hinged front seats, one (1) backseat, and windup key (bagged and in trunk).
Features wind-up motor, opening doors and trunk. Each model is hand stamped with its own unique number underneath. Dimensions: 19.5" (L) x 6.5" (W) x 5.75 (H). Box Dimensions: 20.5" (W) x 8" (D) x 6.375 (H)."Grant Turismo" is big and heavy. A truly beautiful large tinplate car with spiral spring wind-up motor, that runs just great. The doors open, to revel that the front seats hinge forward to let the passengers in the backseat. The steering wheel steers the front wheels.
The 904 is such big drama. Only 5,000 were made. The company began in the early 1900s in the town of Ibi, Spain located in the mountains north of the Mediterranean port of Alicante. Village tinsmith Don Raimundo Payá started out making simple and inexpensive clockwork toys. His first metal toy was a hand-painted horse drawn coach.
The business grew rapidly and the firm Payá Hermanos S. Was formed and built their first toy factory in Ibi, where toy manufacturing began in 1906. It became a family run business with four brothers managing the firm, hence the name- Payá Hermanos.In 1984, after a period of financial difficulties and a long standing labor dispute, the Payá family turned the company and its assets over to its employees. A cooperative, la Sociedad Payá Juguetes, Sociedad Cooperativa Limitada (Payá Toys Society, Cooperative Society Limited) (Payá SCVL) was formed by the employees. With few resources available to retool and manufacture new toys and trains, the new company decided to focus on the toy collectors market and reproduce, in limited quantities of 5,000 each, a selection of their more interesting and popular toys and trains of the past, using the original machines, tools, and dies of the past.
The reproduction toys were numbered and provided with a certificate to demonstrate that they were genuine. To guarantee their exclusivity, the original tools were said to have been made unusable after the reproductions had been made and then the original toys and tooling were donated to the Valencia Toy Museum. Payá continued in the toy and toy train business on a much smaller scale up to 2009, when it finally stopped producing toys and ceased doing business. Some tarnish on headlights (due to storage) - see pics. Will be packed very well - READ OUR FEEDBACK! PLEASE SHARE OUR STORE WITH EVERYBODY YOU KNOW!