Italy, the homeland of Ferrari, Nuvolari, Bertone and Farina, produced military vehicles which can (and should!) be declared the icons of Dieselpunk. Let us begin with the venerable Lancia 1Z. This autoblinda (armored vehicle) was designed short before Italy's entry in WWI and still served in colonies in 1940. Here are some Series 3 Lancias in Italian East Africa.

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This nearly unknown Italian aircraft is the Fiat G.50V (V for Veloce/Fast), a prototype built coupling the airframe of G.50 “Freccia” with a German in line liquid-cooled Daimler-Benz DB601 engine, now available in Italy, redesigning the fuselage of the aircraft. The G.50V flew for the first time at Turin on August 1941 but in same time the greatly superior Macchi MC.202 was in delivery to fighter units and the project was abandoned. However the tests were useful for the development of new fighters projects developed by Ingegner Giuseppe Gabrielli, designer of G.50 (G for Gabrielli), beginning with the G.55 “Centauro”. Victor Sierra

A nearly unknown Italian aircraft

Another interesting vehicle is the Pavesi artillery tractor. On the photograph a column of Pavesi Model 30-A is shown, each tractor is hauling a 100-mm howitzer.

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