1975 Fiat 126 [126A]
1975 Fiat 126 [126A] in PS - Geschichten ums Auto, TV Series, 1975-1979 Ep. 1.01
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Comments about this vehicle
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-- ◊ 2012-01-06 18:38 |
Fiat or Polski-Fiat? |
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◊ 2012-01-06 18:40 |
It's Italian 126 for sure. |
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◊ 2012-01-06 18:53 |
However in Germany there's another possibility.  Some day we'll find Fiat 126 with strange exhaust. It's Steinwinter 250L - German assembled 126 body and chassis married with two-stroke 250 cc, 11 kW engine. Registered as quadracycle AFAIK. -- Last edit: 2012-01-06 18:53:54 |
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-- ◊ 2012-01-06 18:54 |
This one had the FIAT badge. |
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◊ 2012-01-06 22:25 |
Just OT - Steyr had "Fiat" badge at the front, anyway perhaps none of them did have the soft top (same with Polish made export versions). -- Last edit: 2012-01-06 22:26:17 |
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◊ 2012-01-06 22:43 |
Ths was a special conversion for people, who had only a pre-1950 driving licence for mid-size motorcycles, the old "Klasse IV". With that you could drive any vehicle up to 250ccm. For those clientele the several microcars with this engine-size were made in the 50ies. The Steinwinter-conversion wasn't the most common. These were the conversion with Goggomobil-engines. The NSU Prinz 4 was the most used car for that, but also Fiat 500 and 126. In 1988 I had talked with a Steinwinter-distributor. They also had offered the Lancia Y 10 with this engine. The Goggo-engines for this purpose were built for years longer than the car. The last Goggomobil was built in 1969, but the engines up to 1983 - in an edge of the former, otherwise abandoned Borgward-plant in Bremen. Assembled by a handful of old workers. This micro-production was stopped. when Mercedes Benz, which owns is the former Borgward-areal and already has produced the T-Modell there, needed all plant-halls for the production of the new W201. A footnote about this ancient license: in July 2010 the very last surviving holders of it (who never made the little extra step to a full car-license) were finally allowed to drive all cars, without an extra test. |
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◊ 2012-01-07 14:31 |
1974+ as with sunroof |
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◊ 2012-01-13 22:38 |
Sorry, only in German: http://www.glasclub.de/glas/historie/typen/goggo/goggo-prinz/nsu.htm About the downsized NSU Prinz. |
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◊ 2012-01-13 22:40 |
P.S. The company Steinwinter is still existing, as to read here: http://www.glasclub.de/glas/historie/typen/goggo/figo/stein.htm Including some survived bankrupcies in the last years |
