Ciao Retroisti....
Now you all are going to get some Swedish motor history education, check this out.....
During the 50's & 60's a new way for kids to get around started, the EPA Traktor was born, EPA was a Swedish low prize department store like K-Mart & Wall-Mart in the States and stuff with low qualtiy or homemade was often called EPA as in "junk". The Swedish road code alows a 16-year old to drive a Tractor (if you live on a farm you can start driving at 14) and there was a hole in the regs that made it possible to build your own Tractor of things laying around in sheds and barns therefore the EPA name, the regs said unsprung rear suspension, a bed for load and a topspeed of no more than 40kph. These regs have been stretched by many builders calling an empty rear seat for load space and on most of these Tractors they use 2 manual transmissions where the second is locked in first gear to get a topspeed of 40kph but rules are to be got around so the second box can easily be put in 4-th gear and these cars humm along quite quickly and with the regs beeing quite liberal since it's really a farm vheicle you can get around with motor swaps, tinted windows, wiiiide wheels, slicks, no fenders etc....
Myself living in the country side I see these almost every day but in the cities the EPA is not the thing to have in the city is slightly un-cool, scooters rule the city streets....
Some of these rides are real hot!!!!
Typical EPA-Traktor owner, smells of oil & Clerasil....
Typical EPA-Traktor usage....
Belive it or not but it has a Volvo B20, 2 gearboxes, unsprung rear suspension and on the road with a happy 16-year old behind the wheel...
This is a local Enköping Kid and I see it almost every day, nice...
You all ask yoursef "why do Swedes build such nice Rods & Kustoms?" what do you think when kids start building their EPA's a 14 to have them done buy their 16'th birtday....
DP says: This stuff is real cool IMO......
Now you all are going to get some Swedish motor history education, check this out.....
During the 50's & 60's a new way for kids to get around started, the EPA Traktor was born, EPA was a Swedish low prize department store like K-Mart & Wall-Mart in the States and stuff with low qualtiy or homemade was often called EPA as in "junk". The Swedish road code alows a 16-year old to drive a Tractor (if you live on a farm you can start driving at 14) and there was a hole in the regs that made it possible to build your own Tractor of things laying around in sheds and barns therefore the EPA name, the regs said unsprung rear suspension, a bed for load and a topspeed of no more than 40kph. These regs have been stretched by many builders calling an empty rear seat for load space and on most of these Tractors they use 2 manual transmissions where the second is locked in first gear to get a topspeed of 40kph but rules are to be got around so the second box can easily be put in 4-th gear and these cars humm along quite quickly and with the regs beeing quite liberal since it's really a farm vheicle you can get around with motor swaps, tinted windows, wiiiide wheels, slicks, no fenders etc....
Myself living in the country side I see these almost every day but in the cities the EPA is not the thing to have in the city is slightly un-cool, scooters rule the city streets....
Some of these rides are real hot!!!!
Typical EPA-Traktor owner, smells of oil & Clerasil....
Typical EPA-Traktor usage....
Belive it or not but it has a Volvo B20, 2 gearboxes, unsprung rear suspension and on the road with a happy 16-year old behind the wheel...
This is a local Enköping Kid and I see it almost every day, nice...
You all ask yoursef "why do Swedes build such nice Rods & Kustoms?" what do you think when kids start building their EPA's a 14 to have them done buy their 16'th birtday....
DP says: This stuff is real cool IMO......
