.....it's almost cute!
SAAB "CARAVAN"
Swedish motorhome in production only a few years in the 1960s.
Basically a camper shell on top of a Saab auto chassis.
Not much info about it on www.
Original models had 2-cycle 28hp motor, later 1500cc 4-cycle 40hp.
SAAB "CARAVAN"
Swedish motorhome in production only a few years in the 1960s.
Basically a camper shell on top of a Saab auto chassis.
Not much info about it on www.
Original models had 2-cycle 28hp motor, later 1500cc 4-cycle 40hp.
dcmac214 wrote:
.....it's almost cute!
SAAB "CARAVAN"
Swedish motorhome in production only a few years in the 1960s.
Basically a camper shell on top of a Saab auto chassis.
Not much info about it on www.
Original models had 2-cycle 28hp motor, later 1500cc 4-cycle 40hp.
There's gotta be a place to stuff a 350 Chev in that thing!!!:B
Not as ugly as the earliest Winnebago motorhomes. It has more of a 1940s look than a 1960s look.
Power was less an issue in early postwar Europe, particularly Scandinavia than it is now in a world of 60-80 mph superhighways. That was a world of speeds under 50 mph on the better open highways, more typically 30 mph on less developed rural roads.
Not much different from the U.S. in the 1920s and 30s when a Model T was adequate and a Model A was a speed demon, and "large" trucks trundled down the road with 40-80 HP.
Motor caravans were built in post-War Europe on other small chassis of similar or less power (like the 2CV, VW Type 2, and commercial small vans like the Thames, Morris and Commer in Britain, the Citroen H in France (although that was a relative powerhouse with a 1.9 liter four). The Citroen H was truly ugly no matter what you built on it:
Power was less an issue in early postwar Europe, particularly Scandinavia than it is now in a world of 60-80 mph superhighways. That was a world of speeds under 50 mph on the better open highways, more typically 30 mph on less developed rural roads.
Not much different from the U.S. in the 1920s and 30s when a Model T was adequate and a Model A was a speed demon, and "large" trucks trundled down the road with 40-80 HP.
Motor caravans were built in post-War Europe on other small chassis of similar or less power (like the 2CV, VW Type 2, and commercial small vans like the Thames, Morris and Commer in Britain, the Citroen H in France (although that was a relative powerhouse with a 1.9 liter four). The Citroen H was truly ugly no matter what you built on it:
