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TEXT AND PHOTOS: RETROMÓVIL MADRID
Fans will be able to commemorate the 50 years of the Seat 124 Sport during Living Room retromobile Madrid, to be held during the last weekend of November at the Ifema. There will be a special area dedicated to this model, which celebrates its anniversary a few months later, as it was presented at the Barcelona Motor Show in 1970.
A large stand will exhibit different units of the Spanish luxury sports car of the time, with the collaboration of the Club Nacional Seat 1430, 124 and 124 Sport. In addition, on Saturday, November 30, a rally is called from 10.00:XNUMX am in the yellow parking lot of the Madrid fairgrounds.
Seat 124 Sport, protagonist of Retromóvil
Seat launched this coupe based on the Fiat 124 Sport, presented 2 years before and chosen Car of the Year, which gave him time to evolve it. It was also the first model manufactured in our country to adapt a 5-speed gearbox as standard.
Seat's car stood out by its powerful engines -1.600, of 110 CV and 1.800, of 118 CV- with timing chain, and double braking circuit with servo, among other features.
You could choose in five colors: white, red, blue, yellow and ocher. A novelty in the Spanish brand, which sold with delivery times of 18 months and without the option to choose the tone of the body until that moment.
This sample of Seat 124 Sports It will allow fans to pay the first tribute of the different subsequent celebrations that will be made to this model at multiple fairs and concentrations in 2020.
