Designed by Colin Chapman and Mike Costin, the Formula 1 Vanwalls deployed starting from 1956 were also built using some parts of the cars of the two-year period 1954-1955. Between 1957 and 1958 the Vanwalls, financed by the British industrialist Guy Anthony Vandervell, managed to win nine world championship GPs and the 1958 constructors' title. Tony Brooks, Stirling Moss, Froilan Gonzalez, Mike Hawthorn, Stuart Lewis-Evans, Roy Salvadori, Harry Schell, Piero Taruffi and Maurice Trintignant drove Vanwall cars between 1956 and 1958.
Brumm was founded by Reno Tattarletti, former Rio sales director, with Emilio Molteni and Virginio Bianchi in Como, in 1972. The company name comes from a model of carriage (from "Brougham") widely used in Milan in Nineteenth century. Brumm originally made 1:43 scale models of horse-drawn carriages. In the mid-1970s, steam-powered vehicle models went into production, and in 1977, classic car models. Car models, mostly sports and racing cars, along with some small Fiats, soon became the company's most important and successful product line. Since the mid-1980s Brumm has regularly produced limited edition models in special and promotional liveries. Proudly continuing to produce in Italy, Brumm is today very active, with a very rich catalog that offers updated variants of already known moulds. Completely new molds are nowadays rare, such as the Fiat Panda II Series, which was long overdue.