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Solved - NEH 4337: SH Design Silver Hawk - 1983
« on: October 26, 2015, 08:04:20 AM »
What's this, by whom, from when and powered by what - for 1 point?:

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Re: NEH 4337
« Reply #1 on: November 09, 2015, 05:10:58 AM »
Experts?
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Re: NEH 4337
« Reply #2 on: December 07, 2015, 05:04:44 AM »
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Re: NEH 4337
« Reply #3 on: December 07, 2015, 05:06:34 AM »
NSU-based?
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Re: NEH 4337
« Reply #4 on: December 07, 2015, 06:02:34 AM »
Made in Europe ?
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Re: NEH 4337
« Reply #5 on: December 07, 2015, 06:34:48 AM »
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Re: NEH 4337
« Reply #6 on: December 07, 2015, 06:50:48 AM »
Beetle-based?
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Re: NEH 4337
« Reply #7 on: December 07, 2015, 07:01:20 AM »
Made in Germany ?
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Re: NEH 4337
« Reply #8 on: December 07, 2015, 07:47:15 AM »
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Re: NEH 4337
« Reply #9 on: December 07, 2015, 07:47:59 AM »
Made in UK ?
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Re: NEH 4337
« Reply #10 on: December 07, 2015, 07:51:33 AM »
Svenharry Akesson's SH Design Silver Falcon from Sweden.

Will update.
« Last Edit: December 07, 2015, 07:53:40 AM by Arunas »
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Re: NEH 4337
« Reply #11 on: December 07, 2015, 07:54:18 AM »
Quote from: Arunas on December 07, 2015, 07:51:33 AM
Sethera/Silver Falcon from Sweden.

Will update.

It's from Sweden but I have a slightly different name..
You're on the right track though so I'll lock it for you until your next reply to see if you can come up with the name I have along with answers to the other questions asked.
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Re: NEH 4337
« Reply #12 on: December 07, 2015, 07:59:01 AM »
It is Svenharry Akesson's SH Design Silver Falcon from Sweden.

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The car was finished in 1983 and named Silver Hawk. A Volkswagen 1600 chassis, with engine, was rebuilt and got a sleek streamlined plastic coupé body. Only 107 centimetres high. The roof over the chairs could be removed, and the head lights were retractable.

The Silver Hawk was displayed at a kit car exhibition in Uppsala (Sweden) in 1983, and a number of the visitors were interested in buying the car. So, Åkesson found a company where the cars could be built - Plastinova in Landskrona.

The cars were sold with or without the steel tube chassis that Åkesson had designed. Later chassis were made for a mid-mounted engine - and when the buyer told what engine, suspension et cetera would be used, the manufacturer told where to place the mounts to get good road handling.

Some 20 buyers bought the car with the chassis, some made their own chassis, and the rest of the 'round 330 manufactured bodies were fitted on various chassis. A variation of engines were used, among others a Cadillac V8.

In 1986 Åkesson sold the manufacturing rights to a person in Finland. In 1997 cars still were manufactured.
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Re: NEH 4337
« Reply #13 on: December 07, 2015, 10:04:21 AM »
You mean the Silver Hawk of course, as per the item you've copied..
Silver Falcon was a different model.  I think the Sethera was developed out of these cars?

1 point for you.
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Re: Solved - NEH 4337: SH Design Silver Hawk - 1983
« Reply #14 on: December 07, 2015, 04:46:15 PM »
We had the Silver Hawk twice before, just not as a targa roof conversion: http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=5041
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Re: Solved - NEH 4337: SH Design Silver Hawk - 1983
« Reply #15 on: December 08, 2015, 04:09:27 AM »
Quote from: Wendax on December 07, 2015, 04:46:15 PM
We had the Silver Hawk twice before, just not as a targa roof conversion: http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=5041

Yes, I know, but the one in my puzzle is not the same.  I think it might be the very first 'prototype' one and differs substantially from the later cars with the same name.
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Re: Solved - NEH 4337: SH Design Silver Hawk - 1983
« Reply #16 on: July 13, 2016, 07:43:47 AM »
I'm trying to fix Svenharry Akesson's cars story.
The original Silver Hawk should be a T-roof and was built by Akesson in 1983
The red one, (but also the white one) with open top should be built by Plastinova, a company set to built those bodies.
The next project, the Sethera, was built in 1987 by a company named SH-Design. ('S' and 'H' are Akesson's trademarks) in 2 different versions.
The last but one project was the Falcon, built starting from a scale model made by Christian Von Koenigsegg and  David Crafoord (not the other way around) provided to Akesson. The Prototype later became the CC.
Last project was a Cobra replica.

So we have:

Silver Hawk by Akesson (T-roof)
Silver Hawk by Plastinov (open roof)
Sethera by SH-Design (MK1 and MK2, sold also in the UK)
Falcon by Akesson (commissioned by Koeniggseg)
Cobra by Akesson (for his son)

There is one flyer of the Silver Hakw with the letters SH, but that was not the company's name.
Is it correct or is there anything out of place?
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