Year and place: 1951, Stockholm

In Stockholm, in the early 50s, a student began building himself a car. A chassis was welded together, of water pipes. Then he got tired of the job.

Bo Castenfors, another student, took over. In the autumn of 1951 the car was registered.

On a frame of wood, he had built a very low open 2-seated aluminium body. The car was, as most home-built cars, equipped with parts from other cars. The engine was a 34hp Ford, hood from a Saab 92, and rear fenders from a wrecked truck - mounted back to front.

The shaft came from an U.S.A. pickup of the make Bantam, an odd construction with two joints instead of the usual one joint. When Castenfors drove the car at 60 km/h, the shaft broke. When he found another shaft of the same make, it was fitted in another one of the rare Bantam pickups. So, he had to buy the pickup to get the shaft.

In 1954 his younger brother bought the car for 1.000 swedish kronor. A year later the engine broke, and parts of Casten were used as a trailer at a farm.

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