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Transit "Panorama" - the noble Ford as a comfortable touring coach
The model is today a true classic rarity, as it shows that the car designers of the 1950s knew how to play with colors in an impulsive way. The cream-white color is accentuated by a wide red belly band. The Cologne coach had once also had a lot of trouble, should the Ford Transit Panoramabus finally give the successful answer to the main competitor VW, which satisfied with the T1 in the "Samba" version with the buyer clientele more and more leisure ambitions. For example, Ford equipped the first-generation transit with a sundeck and also donated the body's well-known bicolour bicolour appearance. From 1962 to 1965 the Ford Transit Panorama was built as a noble variant, Even though the actual series had already been launched in Cologne since 1953 - initially under the model designation FK 1000. If the VW competitor used T1 as the basis for the VW beetle with a rear engine, the Ford compact transporter was able to convince with a front-mounted engine. If you look closely at the WIKING model, you will recognize the type designation "Taunus Transit" in the Panoramabus. By the way, a perfectly plausible designation, the Transporter had nevertheless been profiting since 1958 from the 55 hp engine from the Taunus 15M. Until the end of the first Transitgeneration in 1965, the minibuses looking for convenience could order the "Panorama" version and were not disappointed with the visually appealing exterior.
