Delta Yeti

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The Delta Yeti is a small off-road vehicle built by the defunct Delta Special Vehicles in Turin, Italy towards the end of the 1960s.

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The context

The Yeti was designed by the same people who had designed the Ferves (Ranger) and it is a small four-seater off-road vehicle with open bodywork and a canvas roof, which can be applied by means of ribbed frames.

The structure is composed of an external steel box frame, whose squared shape characterizes and conditions the vehicle line.

It was powered by the engine of the Fiat 850 and is the first off-road vehicle equipped with four drive wheels and steering wheels built in Italy for the civilian market.

Put on sale in 1968 and produced in very small series, despite the refined construction technique, the "Yeti" had little commercial success, remaining in phase little more than prototype.

SAMAS

After a couple of years the project was acquired by a new company in Alba, SAMAS (Società Albese Meccanica Speciali Specia), which replaced the engine with new FIAT 127's 903 cm3, rebranding is the SAMAS Yeti 903. [1] In 1973 the same house also presented the project of a version of the Yeti "6x6", with six-wheel drive, which was not produced. [2]

The change made by SAMAS was not limited to the mere replacement of the engine, but rather to a radical change in mechanics. The main one was the positioning of the engine no longer cantilevered on the front axle but set back almost inside the cockpit. In addition, various mechanical components were used, such as the gearbox of the Fiat 124, differentials of the Alfa Romeo Giulia, the steering box of the Fiat 316 pickup truck; only the gearbox reducer box was built specifically for this model.

Technical notes

Production - from 1968 to 1975 with about 75 to 200 [3] produced

Other characteristics

Notes

  1. "Samas Yeti (1971): fuoristrada in miniatura - Auto d'epoca - Panoramauto". panorama-auto.it. Retrieved 2019-01-27.
  2. http://www.sixmania.fr/les-autres-6x6-tous-terrains/ scroll down for picture
  3. "Autoruote 4x4 - Web magazine sulla mobilità 4x4 e sull'offroad: YETI 903 by SAMAS (1968)". autoruote4x4.com. Retrieved 2019-01-27.

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