OM Leoncino

OM Leoncino in The Italian Job, Movie, 1969

Class: Cars, Van / MPV — Model origin:

01:00:04 Vehicle used by a character or in a car chase

Author	Message
antp ◊ 2006-02-12 18:31	-- Last edit: 2010-12-17 21:38:15 (vilero)
mm ◊ 2006-02-13 02:31	Something from the family of the OM CL/51? http://www.poliziadistato.it/pds/chisiamo/storia/autostoriche/autocarro_om.htm
Junkman ◊ 2006-04-10 02:13	OM Leoncino
Jaqob P. ◊ 2006-05-03 20:37	I think it's a Furgonato, it says so on WWW.THEITALIANJOB.COM. -- Last edit: 2006-05-10 17:38:04
mm ◊ 2006-05-19 15:05	OM Tigrotto 35 N or 35 NL http://www.album-mmt.it/details.php?image_id=24906 http://www.album-mmt.it/details.php?image_id=24905 Even http://www.theitalianjob.com/cars_othervehicles.htm says: Sicurezza Bullion Van [...] The van was bought in Turin by the production crew and was almost certainly an OM 'Furgonato', most probably based on the chassis of a 'Tigrotto', a very famous OM truck , which was popular in Italy during the Sixties an early Seventies. [...] It was a regular van when bought, so Disley Jones and his art crew transformed it into a convincing security van. [...] Furgone/Furgonato just means a big closed back for deliveries, like step vans.
esagamma718 ◊ 2007-09-11 17:54	"Furgonato" = "van" in Italian. It is a Leoncino (not Tigrotto: look at the front wheels!) postal delivery van, painted as "how an early Seventies Englisman tought an Italian armoured van shoud look" :-)