Topic: SOLVED: WTH # 283 - 1956 Hispano Furgoneta prototype w single-cylinder Hispano-Villiers engine

[sixtee5cuda]

For one point, specify the approximate year, make, model, and engine type of this little van

[luisps]

Spanish FH or Furgoneta Hispano prottipe of 1956 with Hispano Villiers 197 c.c. engine.

[sixtee5cuda]

LOCKED for luisps.  It is an Hispano from around 1956, with a Villiers engine.

Can you provide the model number of this vehicle?

[luisps]

As I've stated this microtruck was a one off prototype presented in 1956 together with a pick-up version, both with full metal body. The inmediate production series with a similar front but the loading box of wood and plywood is called in some books as F-197 because of the capacity of the single stroke engine. But no one advertisement from the own company uses that name, just "Furgoneta Hispano". I hope that you know that these small microcars were the last cars produced by the original Hispano Suiza company in Spain after the sale of the main plants and equipment to Franco's goverment. Curiously few days ago in a recent post of autopuzzles  http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=26409.0 apeared the Hispano Suiza A-11 last passenger car designed by the company in 1952. The small vans were front drive and its front suspension was a reduced copy of the A11 of wonderfull design.  After the prototypes were three series of production the first and second (F2) were very similar only the front was modified but the third series come with the model names F4 and F5 with a metal body similar to the Fiat 500 of 1959 (F4 with 197 c.c. engine and F5 with 325 c.c. double cylinder engine) Almost one unit of each of the two first production series still exist in perfect restored condition, no one of the F4 nor F5 re known to have survived.

[sixtee5cuda]

Thank you for the information, luisps.  The point is yours.

[Wendax]

the third series come with the model names F4 and F5 with a metal body similar to the Fiat 500 of 1959 (F4 with 197 c.c. engine and F5 with 325 c.c. double cylinder engine)

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