Pegaso Bacalao

The Pegaso Bacalao was a one-off transporter van built by the Spanish company Pegaso in 1952 to carry and support the Pegaso Z-102 sports cars that the firm entered in competition. It was a prototype with no official designation, and it took its nickname, Spanish for cod, from the two gill-shaped air intakes on its flanks. It was built on the base of a Z-401 coach and bodied in Zaragoza by Carde y Escoriaza. It first had a petrol engine of 145 hp, soon replaced by a diesel unit of about 125 hp. The body was about 11 metres long, 2.5 metres wide and 3.5 metres high, and it could carry two cars inside, although it usually carried one with a large load of spares. The driver sat alone in the centre of the cab above the engine. It was registered as B-145045, stayed in use with Spanish teams until 1968 and was struck off and scrapped in May 1970.