The oldest car registered in September in Romania this year was built 87 years ago. “Grandma” survived the Second World War and will now circulate on the streets of Iași.
The oldest “old timer” car registered in September in Romania received Iași license plates.
According to the statistics of the General Directorate of Permits and Registrations, the car, a Fiat 508C Balilla, with a power of 24 kw and a cylinder capacity of 1089 was manufactured in June 1937.
It is only a month “older” than another collector car, brought to Romania in September, and registered in Brașov. In the second case we are talking about a Mercedes Benz 230 Cabrio B.
The oldest car registered in September in Romania
The Fiat 508C Balilla is one of almost a thousand second-hand cars registered in this county in September.
The number of second-hand cars thus entered into circulation in the county represented 84% of the total number of registrations in the last month, he states The newspaper of Iasi.
Nationally, of the more than 37,600 cars registered last month, 76% were second-hand and only 24% were new.
Three of the second-hand cars were manufactured before 1940 and reached owners in Iași, Brașov and Bucharest. The oldest of these is the Fiat 508C Balilla car.
A specialist website from Latvia states that on the billboards from eight decades ago, the producer “initially tried to dub it the Nuova Balilla 1100but drivers always called it just 1100. It was produced in 57,000 units in Cabriolet, Saloon and Sunroof Sedan versions”.
Mercedes-Benz 230 B Cabrio from 1937, registered in Brașov
Also in September, in Brașov, a Mercedes-Benz 230 B Cabrio (W143) manufactured in July 1937 was registered.
It was “born” just a month later than the Fiat 508C Balilla.
The Bugatti VP 57 Ventoux AD Cupe model, manufactured in 1939, is included in the top 3 oldest cars registered in Romania last month. It was registered in Bucharest.
Source: www.promotor.ro
