Ivan Vicario Martin
The world of social media is like that. Just less than a week ago Renault Twingo, with Murcia license plate, became famous for circulating in the United States. Now it has passed into discreet oblivion, but along the way, it has allowed us to discover some more stories about Spanish models who live a second youth on the roads of North America. And it's not just any model. In this case, we have discovered at least three SEAT 600 that are in the United States.
The merit of the discovery can be attributed to the tweeter Jose Manuel Bordallo, who posted a glorious snapshot on his profile. It was about a SEAT 600N with Madrid license plate who poses proudly next to a gigantic pick up F. If on our roads, a "ball" already seems tiny, on those of the USA it will look like a microcar. By benefits, it is difficult to imagine that this N is used little more than to move around the neighborhood. No highways or major routes.
OTHER FOR SALE
In that same Twitter thread, Bordallo reports on another SEAT 600 that was for sale in the USA. It is a D, also with a Madrid license plate, which was auctioned at Bring a trailer, which is said to have been recently imported from Paracuellos del Jarama. At the time -November 2016- it had 73.000 kilometers on his odometer and he looked fantastic. It was finally auctioned at U.S. dollar 5.200, a more than remarkable figure for a SEAT 600, since it would be equivalent to a similar figure in euros at that time.
At the moment another American “ball” reappeared. In this case, it is a blue 600 D with a Cáceres license plate, which would be in the town of Tillamook, located in the county of the same name in Oregon. The tweeter reveals it to us Marshall Law. And surely there are still more SEAT 600s to discover doing the Americas. And it is that the snowball has only grown and has been getting bigger, with the appearance of other cars with national registration, such as several Land Rover Santanas or a Mercedes-Benz 190E 2.5-16.
FAMOUS SILHOUETTE
In any case, the figure of the SEAT 600 is not completely unknown to Americans. And it is that Fiat did export the 600 to the country of stars and stripes. In fact, he did it through quite striking ads, if not directly funny, as we can see in this selection that we offer you.
In fact, it is not difficult to find images of the Fiat 600 on the highways of the United States. It is rarer to find a SEAT, but as we see, there are there are.
Photographs: Twitter, veikl and file.
