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A machine of the time with back motor

An unusual stamp carried out the day of All the Saints in Seville This: more than 200 Seat 600 parked in the entrance of Fibes under a sun that caused that the thermometers marked 30 degrees. Seítas of all the colors and different origin in the morning occupied the esplanade from access to the enclosure from the eleven on the occasion of the concentration of the National Association of Seat 600. Some proprietors had to rise early to arrive in time, especially the members of the Friendly Club of Classic Cars of the Mountainous area of Round and those of Ciudad Real.

Although years ago they stopped making, still continue themselves selling of individual form. The fan magazines and the mouth mouth are the main means to acquire one. Luis Alvarez has brought to Fibes four vehicles, a one of them ambulance of the Red Cross. “I bought This one it in Seville, but the others come from Corunna and Leon.

“Before, only you found scrap iron, was very difficult to obtain some seíta in good state but with the crisis the thing has changed, people sells more, especially those acquired than it by inheritance they have and it left because they do not use it�, Luis explains Alvarez, natural of Santander.

A first that watches fan is the state of the plate, most expensive to fix, whereas the motor, located in the part of back, is simpler and cheap. According to the Sevillian Golden Juan, seíta in very good state can go up to around the 6,000 Euros, very far from the 73,500 pesetas that the first Seat 600 cost that was sold in Spain in 1957, a number very lifted for the time.

In this type of encounter, the proprietors of the vehicles interchange technical advice on their repair, although sometimes he leaves more expensive the necklace than the dog. “6,000 Euros cost to fix my Seat to me, 244 working hours�, point the onubense Pepe Garci'a, member of the Friendly Club 600 of Seville.

Seíta was the car par excellence of the Spanish families in 60 and 70. “All the smaller Spaniards of 30 years have in their memory a memory where he appears seíta: a day of beach, an appointment�, comments Pepe Garci'a, to whom they gave his first Seat to him with 13 years. “It was a Christmas present of my father it fixed so that it and it played with him; it was destroyed, but it enchanted to me�.

For Pepe, seítas is “machines of the time that transport to you to the past�. In addition, they have a special scent “to sweat, old�.

The majority does not use it of daily form but the occasions are numerous that these fans meet and cross Spanish geography to 90 kilometers per hour in his seíta of back motor.