Topic: SOLVED: Djetset 946 - Clan Motors Ltd. Clan Van 1500, Cyprus

[Djetset]

For a point, please name this vehicle and where it is from (and remember, this is Autopuzzles, so all is not what it always seems  ). (Oh, and sorry for the size and poor quality of the photograph).

[norberthanke]

Daihatsu

[Djetset]

Daihatsu

No.

[Djetset]

Experts?

[morphly]

Fiat 125 Multicarga from Argentina?

[Djetset]

Fiat 125 Multicarga from Argentina?

I can see why you're thinking that, but it's not that I'm afraid.

[del78]

FSO 1500 Pickup from Poland (or maybe other name variation for different market?)

[morphly]

Clan Van 1500 from Cyprus

[Djetset]

FSO 1500 Pickup from Poland (or maybe other name variation for different market?)

Although this is a basically a Polski Fiat/FSO 1500 Pick-Up, I'm afraid you don't get the point as...

[Djetset]

Clan Van 1500 from Cyprus

... it is a Clan Van from Clan Motors Ltd in Cyprus (including a unique Clan front grille, as below), so the point goes to Murphy.

[thorax]

do you have a bigger picture?

No sorry, that's the largest image I could find.

[Wendax]

Here's a bigger one:

[Djetset]

Thank you 

[Johno]

I presume since it has the name Clan it will be linked to the Clan Crusader, the molds for which finished up in Cyprus after the company folded in the UK. Several finished and partially complete Clans were shipped to Cyprus as part of the deal. These are two photos of the garage where the Clans where assembled and sold before the civil war which divided the island.

[Djetset]

That's a very good point Johno, and I think you're on to something, as until you mentioned it, I hadn't made the connection between the two Clans from Cyprus. I guess (but don't know for sure) that the two are connected.

[thorax]

Here's a bigger one:

thanks!