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FIAT 1400 Camioncino/Pick-up – 1951
Unique, good general conditions, original engine 1400 cc gasoline, excellent mechanics, transformed in 1961 and approved tipper truck, 2 places, Italian documents ready for export
The Fiat 1400, later also produced in the "1900" version, is a car built by FIAT between 1950 and 1958. It was the first FIAT car to adopt the load-bearing bodywork rather than the traditional frame structure.
At the same time it was the first entirely newly designed car after the end of the Second World War, the other models produced were derivatives of pre-war designs. In fact, planning began in 1947, when the Turin company was awaiting the subsidized loans promised by the Economic Cooperation Administration as part of the nascent Marshall Plan. Although the first car with a load-bearing body, the Lancia Lambda of 1922, was designed, patented and built in Turin, for which FIAT had materially contributed in the first years of production, creating the molded structures to be assembled with aeronautical rivets in its departments , for the load-bearing body of the 1400 it was preferred, for reasons of industrialization of the product, to turn to the Budd body shop of Detroit which had specialized in railway carriages with self-supporting structures since the 1930s, and which provided Fiat with the necessary technical assistance for the molding and sheet metal welding; to this end, Fiat sent the head of the bodywork office, Giuseppe Alberti, to the USA. Given the poor quality of the sheet metal produced in Mirafiori, Budd also took care of building the paneling molds and assembly equipment. It was deemed useful to build a car that Americans could also like and for the Fiat line it was inspired by the Frazer Manhattan and Kaiser Special, both from 1947, which were the first to experiment with the system created by Budd.
Presented at the Geneva Motor Show in March 1950, for the fiftieth anniversary of Fiat, the new car was equipped with an engine capable of delivering 44 HP at 4,400 rpm, which pushed the sedan to a maximum speed of around 120 km/h . Fiat asked the engineer. Dante Giacosa to create an engine with short stroke pistons so that from the same cylinder block it was possible to obtain a displacement of around 2000 cm³ simply by lengthening the stroke of the pistons, in order to then be able to equip a light truck with that engine. In 1953 the 1400 was the first Italian car to adopt a diesel engine, and was therefore named 1400 Diesel. It was equipped with a 1901 cm³ engine producing 40 HP at 3,200 rpm, with high pressure Fiat injection (Bosch licence), the same used by the 615 truck and the Campagnola off-road vehicle. During the year and a half of production, approximately 13,500 examples were produced.
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