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SOLVED - What car #5 - 1956 Troll
« on: November 01, 2007, 07:40:41 PM »
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Re: What car #5
« Reply #1 on: November 09, 2007, 07:05:18 AM »
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Re: What car #5
« Reply #2 on: November 09, 2007, 07:52:18 AM »
One of five or six norwegian Troll from 1956. Developed from the german Gutbrod, the Troll had independant suspension front and rear and GRP bodies. The engine was a twin-cylinder twin-cycle 0.7-litre. When the company folded they had produced 12 bodies in all, the 6 last bodies was crushed.

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Re: What car #5
« Reply #3 on: November 09, 2007, 08:05:56 AM »
Yeah, yeah. I knew you would know that one. Should have kept it in the Rookies section a bit longer...
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Re: SOLVED - What car #5 - 1956 Troll
« Reply #4 on: November 11, 2007, 07:12:22 AM »
Just curious... would you have solved it if I had posted this instead?
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Re: SOLVED - What car #5 - 1956 Troll
« Reply #5 on: November 11, 2007, 08:49:04 AM »
Just curious... would you have solved it if I had posted this instead?
Is that the car in the museum in Lillehammer?

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Re: SOLVED - What car #5 - 1956 Troll
« Reply #6 on: November 11, 2007, 09:25:14 AM »
These two cars (the red one and the white one) are both in the museum in Lillehammer. The red one does not have its original color intact, and some modifications have been done to its bodyshell. The white one is the first prototype and the original car owned by Per Kohl-Larsen, founder of the Troll project. It was sold to a lady in Farsund, Norway, who emigrated to the US and took the car with her. Norwegian enthusiasts managed to track the car down in the Nineties. It was in very poor condition, having been left to rot in a garden for many years. It is now almost 100% complete, only lacking its rear window and some minor detailing, and is once again equipped with its original 'K' registration plate.

Of the five cars completed, four still exist, three of them in Lillehammer. The two cars pictured in this topic are located at the Norwegian Museum of Historic Vehicles in Lillehammer city centre, and a third can be seen at the Norwegian Road Museum at Hunderfossen, 12 kms north of the city centre. The fourth existing Troll car is on display at Lunde, Telemark, where the factory was located back in 1955.

The fifth car is believed to have been buried in the ground not too far from Lillehammer in the Sixties. Why these cars all end up there, so far from their original 'birthplace' I don't know. Maybe it's just the place where old cars go to die? Or live, in the case of the others...
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Re: SOLVED - What car #5 - 1956 Troll
« Reply #7 on: November 11, 2007, 10:14:55 AM »
There is also one dark red Troll at the Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology (Norsk Teknisk Museum)  in Oslo.
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Re: SOLVED - What car #5 - 1956 Troll
« Reply #8 on: November 11, 2007, 10:17:01 AM »
No, there isn't. The red one with the different roof has been moved to Lillehammer from Oslo.
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Whaddyacallit #272 - Solved! 1956 Troll
« Reply #9 on: February 14, 2009, 04:16:32 PM »
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Re: Whaddyacallit #272
« Reply #10 on: February 16, 2009, 12:51:51 PM »
I think it'a a Troll manufactured by Troll Plastik & Bilindustri in Norway

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Re: Whaddyacallit #272
« Reply #11 on: February 18, 2009, 03:01:11 AM »
Sorry, I didn't answer at first because, having found the car as a "Trippel", I took your reply as a joke.
You're right of course. Hans Trippel only fathered the design. I think this car is the prototype. Only 5 were built after, with a slightly different grille it seems.
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Re: SOLVED - What car #5 - 1956 Troll
« Reply #12 on: February 20, 2009, 05:04:53 PM »
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Re: SOLVED - What car #5 - 1956 Troll
« Reply #13 on: March 15, 2012, 06:27:35 AM »
Of the five cars completed, four still exist, three of them in Lillehammer. The two cars pictured in this topic are located at the Norwegian Museum of Historic Vehicles in Lillehammer city centre, and a third can be seen at the Norwegian Road Museum at Hunderfossen, 12 kms north of the city centre. The fourth existing Troll car is on display at Lunde, Telemark, where the factory was located back in 1955.

The fifth car is believed to have been buried in the ground not too far from Lillehammer in the Sixties. Why these cars all end up there, so far from their original 'birthplace' I don't know. Maybe it's just the place where old cars go to die? Or live, in the case of the others...

Sorry to interfere in this old thread, but there is one more Troll in Sandnes, Norway. The car is exhibited at Rogaland Bilmuseum. This is no new discovery, the car has been well known for a long time.
So, of the original 5 cars that were built, 4 still exists. The car in Lunde Telemark was assembled after the bankruptcy from obsolete parts. One car is rumored  to have been buried somewhere in Norway.

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Re: SOLVED - What car #5 - 1956 Troll
« Reply #14 on: June 18, 2012, 10:01:54 AM »
I like this picture.  How many times have 3 Trolls been parked together, ever?