Whaddyacallit #339 - Solved! Frua (electric?) seven-seater

Ray B. · May 28, 2009, 12:07:22 PM

Ever seen this ?

If you did, please respond below and let us know the make and model of the car posted here.

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Ray B. · June 07, 2009, 04:41:39 AM

João · June 07, 2009, 02:22:17 PM

It´s a Fiat electric van by Frua?

Ray B. · June 07, 2009, 04:01:38 PM

I know it's by Pietro Frua indeed.
Possibly electric, but there is no certainty. It is also said to predate the Fiat Multipla, but this is purely an hypothesis.
So you've got the point, and another if you can bring proof of any of this. Locked for you 72 hours.

João · June 07, 2009, 06:06:45 PM

"At the backside of the photo."Batterie intercambiabile su carrurole"(Batteries interchangeable on cart/wheelbarrow)... A prewar electric minivan ! Second line: >7 posti a sedere< = (car is for 7 persons) Yet another seven seater concept that preceedes Espace and Voyager with five decades... ! last line: >Vedere se possibile abbassarla. < (in this case means): please evaluate the possibility to lower it (to reduce its height) probably the car is too much tall)"

I only found that $:-\$

Ray B. · June 07, 2009, 06:18:14 PM

You obviously have the same source as I, and no other informations (nothing proves any Fiat connection, by the way). Still, it's worth one point.

Paul Jaray · October 21, 2009, 11:56:14 AM

I had it too listed as a Frua electric vehicle, but then I found this....
and the car is probably designed by Frua, but for sure it was made by...................

Allemano · October 21, 2009, 02:05:33 PM

Stigler?

guido66 · October 21, 2009, 02:14:21 PM

Moretti?

Arunas · October 21, 2009, 02:16:25 PM

Lombardi?

Allemano · October 21, 2009, 02:24:09 PM

If it's a pre war car it should be Stab. Farina as he was a free lancer at that studio back then

Paul Jaray · October 21, 2009, 02:27:26 PM

Quote from: guido66 on October 21, 2009, 02:14:21 PM
Moretti?

Exactly.
Moretti build some electric vehicles under the SAMEM (Società Anonima Motocarri Elettrici Moretti) name and this is one of his projects.
Probably the note behind the picture was a suggestion asked (or given by) Frua for a revised version.
The puzzle's one should be the 5-passenger and mine the 7-passenger.

75america · October 21, 2009, 02:38:29 PM

In a book about Moretti there is mentioned:

1944 (but I don't know if both cars were made in that year)
Autoveicolo elettrico 5 o 7 posti
Autonomia 100 km
Volocita 50 km/h

Paul Jaray · October 21, 2009, 03:02:39 PM

That is what is written in my picture, this car is indeed a Moretti, built by SAMEM and your book is another prove.

thorax · January 31, 2020, 04:42:12 PM

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Whaddyacallit #339 - Solved! Frua (electric?) seven-seater