{"id":19604,"date":"2019-04-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/50-years-of-seat-850-sport-spider\/"},"modified":"2020-10-05T19:53:37","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T19:53:37","slug":"50-years-of-seat-850-sport-spider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/50-years-of-seat-850-sport-spider\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Years of Seat 850 Sport Spider"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Name a convertible model of the Spanish car manufacturer Seat. Don’t worry, until a few weeks ago, we probably had the same question mark on our faces, as you probably have on yours by now. In fact, the brand that today belongs to the VW Group only once listed such a model in their brochures for a short period of four years within their complete history from 1950 to today. At the Techno Classica in Essen\/Germany, the Spaniards presented one copy of it to the stunned visitors, which often assumed to be confused. But let’s start at the beginning of the story.

Seat was founded on May 9, 1950 as a Spanish licensing company of Fiat in Barcelona. Interestingly, the Italian car manufacturer only participated in the new brand by seven percent, while 51 percent was held by the national authority ‘Instituto Nacional de Industria’ and 42 percent by Spanish banks. Starting from 1953 first automobiles ran of the newly built production lines, all visually and technically identical to Fiat models of the time. This license production continued until 1984, although the Seat engineers occasionally sprinkled their own bodywork variants in – mainly four-door versions. The above-mentioned and in the title of this text described convertible model, the Seat 850 Sport Spider, also came from the Fiat program and therefore is known to Central European carfans from the Italian production only. No wonder, as the Spanish brother was only available at its home market. Compared to the Fiat, Seat also only produced it in a homeopathic dose. While 103,622 copies left the production site in Grugliasco\/Italy between 1967 and 1973 (some sources even speak of about 140,000 cars), Seat only built 1,746 open two-seaters from 1969 to 1972. So it isn’t surprising, that Fiat lovers rubbed their eyes when they discovered the Seat logo at the little blue car at Techno Classica.<\/p>\n\n\n

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