Balcancar

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Balcancar
legal form
founding 1956
Seat Lovech
Branch Motor vehicle manufacturer

Electric carts

Balcancar is a Bulgarian manufacturer of motor vehicles . The brand names are Balcancar , Balkancar and, in the past, Pirin-Fiat and Balkan .

Company history

The Lovetsch company began producing electric carts, floor conveyors and forklifts in 1956 . Between 1966 and 1990, more than 250,000 automobiles and until 1978 motorcycles were made .

Automobiles

Brand name Pirin-Fiat

Between 1966 and 1968, around 450 copies of the Fiat 124 models as sedan and station wagon and 850 as sedan and coupé were made from original parts .

Brand name Balkan

The brand name was used for a motorcycle Balkan 250 with a single-cylinder two-stroke engine as early as 1960 . The company manufactured the Moskvich under license from 1967 . The Rila model corresponded to the Moskvich-408 , Moskvich-412 , Moskvich-2138 and the Moskvich-2140 types . Some vehicles were fitted with diesel engines made in Bulgaria under the Perkins license. In 1988 the Balkan model followed with front-wheel drive , which corresponded to the Moskvich-2141 .

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  • Bernard Vermeylen: Cars from the Eastern Bloc. All models since 1945. Delius Klasing Verlag, Bielefeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-7688-3149-9 .
  • Michael Dünnebier, Eberhard Kittler: Passenger cars of socialist countries. Transpress Verlag, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-344-00382-8 .

Web links

Commons : Balcancar  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  2. ↑ Motorcycle Balkan 250 . In: Motor Vehicle Technology 10/1960, pp. 409-410.