Balkan, a former airplane factory in Lovech, made the first attempt to build a Bulgarian passenger car. On 1 May 1960 it officially presented two prototypes, called the Balkan 1200. In the first half of the 1960s the factory also proposed a few experimental minibuses and small trucks, but all of these vehicles stayed at the prototype stage and were never produced. After 1966 the factory began assembling the Soviet…
