What is this?
1 point for you!
Experts?
looks like a scale model?
It's not a production model...it was a prototype. Not sure if it was 1:1.
Is it based on a BMC/British Leyland vehicle like a Morris 1300 or a Maxi?
I have to chek..it's not totally impossible...
Edit: nope, a totally in-house prototype.
Austin mini?
Not Austin...
Triumph ?
Not Triumph.
Morris?
Not Morris
Rootes/Commer
Nope...
Is it by a car manufacturer
Yes.
Reliant ?
Not Reliant.
You are taking something for granted... ;)
do they also make vans ?
I have to say yes, but this may be misleading.
Bedford ?
Not Bedford or similar.
Is it even British? To me it looks more German.
Daft thought,Land Rover ?
Quote from: morphly on January 10, 2015, 04:50:13 AM
Is it even British? To me it looks more German.
Not British or German or Land Rover.
It looks like a version of a Simca van designed by Heuliez.
Not Simca or Heuliez.
French?
Not French.
Italian?
Yes!
prototype for a Fiat 600T?
Not Fiat.
Innocenti?
Yes! Locked for you, but there's not much to add...
Paul, I have researched this as thoroughly as time allows and all I can find is that Innocenti was sold to Leyland in the early 1970s (I hadn't known that before - Leyland certainly did nothing with the brand, sadly) and this van may well have been a Leyland attempt at an Innocenti delivery van, using, as other Innocenti vehicles did, Leyland engines and other sub-structure parts. ???
It's a lovely, clean design and I'm sad it never made it to the market. Mind you, it probably would have rusted to bits in no time, this era being one of the foremost for manufacturers creating rust-prone vehicles.
I hope this will garner me a point - I was getting to the end of my ideas as to what the van was and kept thinking, those ARE BL wheels, so what else could possibly have had them? After the information as to its origins was confirmed, I just posted 'Innocenti', not expecting to be right at all!
Ok, no need to insist since there's not much more after all.
I can only add that is was a 1967-68 project for a 500cc water cooled 2-cylinder van and was developed by Innocenti alone.
Point for you! :thumbsup:
Here's your point!
Moving to solved.
You're right that BL (or BMC) did nothing with Innocenti, but they did make some very nice cars whilst under their ownership. I'm sure if the UK management had realised that they would have put a stop to it forthwith!
I'm thinking about the Innocenti 950 (Italian-bodied Sprite, much nicer than our version) and the later Innocenti Mini; a thoroughly wasted very nice design indeed.
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