Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/14

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Which Leica ?, M5, (now hand crank)
From: "Kit McChesney | acmefoto" <kitmc@acmefoto.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 16:04:58 -0700

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

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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...
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