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ITALIAN bodybuilder Romanazzi SpA is to market its ckd bodies in the UK through selected Fiat dealers. Romanazzi already has links with Fiat's parent body company Iveco, for which it builds custom bodies.
It will make bodies for other chassis, including British ones, in about a year's time but it is concentrating at the moment on selling through Fiat outlets.
Fiat dealers will be able to deliver bodied vehicles within 24 hours instead of the usual three to four weeks because the kit body takes only four hours to fit to chassis.
A selection of the bodywork on offer was shown at the UK launch, including a steel subframed, light-alloy dropside body designed for 16 tonnes, a 7.5-tonne (7.38 ton) gross drop-side and the "Europa" three-way tipper, built of high grade steel.
Romanazzi has already tried to market this three-way tip per in the UK via a British bodybuilder, but without success.
The drop-side bodies all feature easily replaceable alloy planking for the sides, which are rivetted to the end sec tions. Later designs will have special cross-members to accommodate any wheelbase. There would be no difficulty to adapt the design to suit difficult UK chassis widths, says the manufacturer.