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FIAT 600 I Serie “Vetri scorrevoli” "Sliding glass" – 1955
Rare car and in excellent general conditions of conservation and originality, 1st series with sliding windows, conservative restoration of the bodywork, interior redone as per origin, original engine, excellent mechanics, black plates and booklet with pages, Italian documents ready for export
The Fiat 600 (Italian: Seicento) is a small, rear-engined city car and economy family car made by Italian carmaker Fiat from 1955 to 1969 — offered in two-door fastback sedan and four-door Multipla mini MPV body styles. The 600 is considered a pop icon of the Italian economic miracle, and the three-row seating Multipla, though diminutive and odd-looking, is seen as one the first mass-produced minivans. Measuring just 3.22 m (10 ft 7 in) long, its all-new design was Fiat's first rear-engined car, and was priced at 590,000 lire. After the Second World War, FIAT was led by Vittorio Valletta, who was entrusted with the task of motorising the new republican Italy, as had already been attempted and partially achieved through the "Topolino" model. If in the thirties the "Mickey Mouse" project was hardly innovative, in the fifties it was certainly outdated. Valletta commissioned Dante Giacosa to create the new car: a difficult task, given that the company had truly modest potential. The small Fiat small car was presented on 9 March 1955 in Geneva, in the Palazzo delle Esposizioni. Equipped with two doors (in the first versions produced until May 1964 with rear-hinged doors) and with a reasonable habitability for four people, it was equipped with a newly designed engine, the "100", located in a rear position, of 633 cm³, delivering a power of 21.5 HP (equal to 15.8 kW) at 4,600 rpm, capable of pushing the car up to 95 km/h. The "600", born as a popular car, but not entirely a superutility, will have an astonishing sales success and, after a few months, the waiting time for delivery will exceed a year. Strategic ingredients of success were the competitive but not rock-bottom price, good equipment and quality for the price, good habitability and good road behavior which, combined with the good gearbox, also gave driving satisfaction despite the small engine. The winning weapon was also the low running cost: 14 km per liter and, with a fiscal power of 9 HP, a circulation tax of only 10,000 lire.
On the occasion of the presentation of the Fiat 600, Rai, in an era in which it did not advertise on television, broadcast a short film on the new car, prepared by Cinefiat and a typical example of editorial advertising. The Fiat 600 I series (March 1955-February 1957): 633 cm³ engine, Weber 22 DRA carburetor, 21.5 HP (15.8 kW) at 4,600 rpm, maximum speed 95 km/h. Doors hinged at the rear (against the wind), sliding windows, direction indicators on the fenders like on the Topolino, front "600" decoration with 6 aluminum whiskers, small rear lights with aluminum base, rear direction indicator integrated with the stop. In the summer of 1955 the petrol level indicator was perfected, eliminating its oscillations while driving.
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