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Offline dzima1985

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solved: ig_98 - HPD Special
« on: January 04, 2013, 01:58:20 PM »
What's this, built by whom, what it is based on?
Identify this one-off car for 1 point! ;)
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Re: ig_98
« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2013, 11:21:42 AM »
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Re: ig_98
« Reply #2 on: January 29, 2013, 11:42:44 AM »
This car was built in 1961 in Sweden by Sven Andersson (nick name plåt-Harry) and named HPD Special.
Based on a shortened VW beetle platform from 1949. Built to look lika a Porsche with body parts from different cars. The roof and doors from a Saab, the hood is a modified Volvo PV roof, the rear wings also from a Volvo, the rear screen is a Peugeot 203 and so on.
Now owned by Norwegian Oystein Asphjell and fitted with a Porsche 912 engine and Porsche 356B brakes.
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solved: ig_98 - HPD Special
« Reply #3 on: January 29, 2013, 12:49:30 PM »
I knew that you will guess the first. Well done! ;)
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Re: solved: ig_98 - HPD Special
« Reply #4 on: April 12, 2015, 02:48:25 AM »
I have shot this cool little car in motion 4 years ago:
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Re: solved: ig_98 - HPD Special
« Reply #5 on: October 06, 2015, 11:34:24 AM »
Apparently "HPD" simply stands for "Hop-Plockade-Delar", which roughly translated means "Gathered picked parts", in other words made from parts gleaned from various sources.  Swedish home-builts like this are registered for the road as "HPD" cars with HPD and a number.

So whilst this car is an HPD special it's not the HPD Special and possibly has another name, or maybe it's just the "Sven-Harry Andersson Special"...
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