Protar Grand Prix models are about the coolest moto-ephemera there are for golden age GP history junkies. For starters, founder Tarquinio Provini is himself a small displacement Grand Prix legend. He raced illegally for 2 years under his uncle's name, Cesare, until Provino was of legal age, then continued to race Grand Prix for over a decade, winning the Motogiro in 1954 and two successive World ...
Provini sold the company a few years ago just before his death to scale model producer Italeri, but the Protar models from this catalogue have long been discontinued. Increasingly rare, older models are expensive. An unopened example of the Moto-Guzzi V8 recently for well over $300.
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