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Solved -PJ545- Fiat Balilla 1600 from Romania
« on: August 06, 2013, 01:34:42 PM »
I'd like to know where it was built and what powers it.
I won't lock it untill it's done.
1 point for that and of course if you know the whole story (and the builder) it will bring you another one.

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Re: PJ - 545 A tricky one!
« Reply #1 on: August 06, 2013, 03:54:06 PM »
Any Alvis connection ?

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Re: PJ - 545 A tricky one!
« Reply #2 on: August 07, 2013, 11:15:42 AM »
Base Fiat topolino??

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Re: PJ - 545 A tricky one!
« Reply #3 on: August 07, 2013, 01:49:58 PM »

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Re: PJ - 545 A tricky one!
« Reply #4 on: August 08, 2013, 02:23:26 PM »
Built in France in the seventies ??

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Re: PJ - 545 A tricky one!
« Reply #5 on: August 08, 2013, 02:26:19 PM »
Not France...

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Re: PJ - 545 A tricky one!
« Reply #6 on: August 08, 2013, 02:36:29 PM »
Romania?

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Re: PJ - 545 A tricky one!
« Reply #7 on: August 08, 2013, 02:38:14 PM »
Yes!
A Fiat from Romania. Based on which model?

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Re: PJ - 545 A tricky one!
« Reply #8 on: August 09, 2013, 02:36:34 PM »
508 ballila ??

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Re: PJ - 545 A tricky one!
« Reply #9 on: August 09, 2013, 03:11:27 PM »
Yes...now only the engine is missing...not a 1089cc Balilla engine.

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Re: PJ - 545 A tricky one!
« Reply #10 on: August 10, 2013, 01:58:47 PM »
Lancia power??

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Re: PJ - 545 A tricky one!
« Reply #11 on: August 10, 2013, 02:24:51 PM »
Not Lancia, a Fiat engine, but not a 1100.

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Re: PJ - 545 A tricky one!
« Reply #12 on: August 10, 2013, 02:37:30 PM »
Type MM uprated engine by Siata 43bhp ?

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Re: PJ - 545 A tricky one!
« Reply #13 on: August 10, 2013, 04:21:30 PM »
My source, a magazine clipping, reveals only the displacement and it's not 1100...

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Re: PJ - 545 A tricky one!
« Reply #14 on: August 11, 2013, 08:35:11 AM »
The only thing I now they used the 995 cc engine wich was updated by Siata

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Re: PJ - 545 A tricky one!
« Reply #15 on: August 11, 2013, 08:46:21 AM »
Not 1000 or 1100.
My source reports just a number, bigger than 1100.

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Re: PJ - 545 A tricky one!
« Reply #16 on: August 11, 2013, 12:17:52 PM »
The only 508 balilla with a bigger engine I can find is a Romanian called: Fiat Balilla 2516 ccm [Archiwum]
But it looks very different as the one on the picture.

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Re: PJ - 545 A tricky one!
« Reply #17 on: August 11, 2013, 12:24:01 PM »
Smaller than that.

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Re: PJ - 545 A tricky one!
« Reply #18 on: August 13, 2013, 03:19:53 PM »
1600 cc   sorry, I realy dont no. Fiat used so many engines.

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Re: PJ - 545 A tricky one!
« Reply #19 on: August 13, 2013, 03:53:40 PM »
1500 cc ?

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Re: PJ - 545 A tricky one!
« Reply #20 on: August 13, 2013, 04:59:49 PM »
And spider got the point!
It's based on a Fiat Balilla and it's powered by a 1600cc engine.
If there's anyone who knows more...