Seat-1400-trunk

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Seat-1400-trunk
It was not the popular Seat 600 but elegant 1400 1953 which had the privilege of wearing first Seat logo on the front grille. The model was spacious, comfortable and luxurious, but then the real treat was simply able to afford a car. Now, we pay tribute to the Seat 1400, Seat conduct the first in history, namely a model type A.
The Civil War was away at the time, but very present in the lives of those who had suffered. Spain premiered the second half of the twentieth century divided between winners and losers, but both sides were united by a common hope: that hunger, renava shortages and international isolation of the 40s finally give way to better times.
The Franco government not yet raised the slightest political opening, but it was clear that the economy had to refloat it at all costs to ensure the survival of the country and probably also the regime itself ...
Before opening the Swedish swamps or encourage tourism, needed emergency patching industrial fabric fray and, in turn, create solid companies that promoted employment. Of course, there were many options to achieve this, but very few resources to put them all into practice. One of the most interesting, although was late, would be key to national development: climbing once a shopping renava engine and bet without reservation by the car.
To generate a model 'made in Spain' needed to find a wealthy renava sponsor in a Europe that had stopped shaking by the bombs a few years ago. The trouble is that the ideological kin of Spain in the second renava world war were not the most appropriate in view of the final victory. Officially, our country was not married to either side, but his flirtation with Germany and Italy were well known and had always caused jealousy and suspicion, in the UK, France and USA.
However, the May 9, 1950, the National Institute of Industry and five Spanish banks got the "I do" to Fiat to form the Spanish Society of Automobile Tourism (You can see more about the history of Seat). The Fiat was a good game because it had a wide experience in the sector and because their factories, rather than oxidized during World War had worked flat out to produce aircraft and tanks serving the Axis powers Italo- German and to a lesser extent, to aid rebel troops against the Second Spanish Republic.
The priority was not to make a basic utility for the general public as the Seat 600, that would come in 1957, much less revive the spirit of the Hispano-Suiza lujosísimos beginning of the century. You had to create a car rendering, as true for ministers renava and for members of the emerging wealthy class. The situation was not much joy to so distinguish appearance and had also married to another even more sacred dogma: the savings in cost and maintenance.
The choice was the FIAT 1400, a beautiful, elegant and spacious car, but without extravagance design. According renava to Dante Giacosa, one of the most important in the history of the Italian brand designers, one of the main qualities of this model was to be "small on the outside and big inside."
True rolling cars out there much larger and heavier, but what would be the Seat 1400 was intended to impose his own in the Spanish cities, teeming with much more modest and even micro cars, small cars with mechanical monstrosities sheet derived from motorcycles (Biscúter, PTV, Isetta ...).
Thus, the November 13, 1953, Zona Franca de Barcelona 1400 came the first Seat, registration B-87223, whose pieces were manufactured in Italy but assembled here. It is said that some workers, some hopeful future employment, jokingly claimed that 'SEAT' really meant, "You'll always Tightening Screws" ... At a factory gate price of 121,875 pesetas (equivalent to 41,735 euros at current exchange rates), renava the initial production rate was five cars a day, thanks to a workforce of 925 employees.
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