Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]What I want to know is if you can get a new Morris Minor! Or even better, one of my favorite cars of all time, the SAAB 96! We call it the "Pig Car"! Love 'em! Kit - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Craig Zeni Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 1:06 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] Which Leica ?, M5, (now hand crank) >I'm not sure of all the details, but word has it that Fiat sold a >factory, tooling ... the works to the Soviet Union and set up their >factory. The parts where interchangeable (you could use Fiat parts >in a Lada, but you're wisdom might be questioned if you used Lada >parts in a Fiat). Thus creating the Fiatski...Fiat also sold tooling to India's Premier Automotive Ltd. The Fiat 1100 lived on, as did the 127. Not sure if they're still in production or not - last time I was there was 1997 and they were still being built then. Heck, they were still building Hindustan Ambassadors, which were Morris Oxfords from the mid 1950s... - -- - -- Craig Zeni - REPLY TO -->> clzeni at mindspring dot com http://www.trainweb.org/zeniphotos/zenihome.html http://www.mindspring.com/~clzeni/index.html AAAAA: American Association Against Acronym Abuse - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html