Virtually every flavor of every Volvo model ever made, someone somewhere has made into an Epa. As most of the Epa’s were Volvo based, Volvo are an almost mandatory brand in these circles. That’s also the usual tell-tale between old school Epa’s and the newer A-traktors, the shortened wheelbase. And even for the Volvo, that meant the frame had to be shortened accordingly. As a side note, the Epa brand of stores gained a notorious reputation for cheap and bad products, and the brand name fell out of fashion so fast the entire chain had to rebrand itself in the early sixties.Īfter the war, the government almost regulated the Epa out of existence, because god forbid, we can’t let people have too much fun now, can we? The rules called for a body on frame, a maximal wheelbase of 225 cm or about 7 feet, an unsprung rear axle, and a 10:1 gear ratio.Īlmost the only car suitable for those conditions during post war society and available in any kind of large quantity was the Volvo PV445, the “Duett”. Figuratively translated to something like the Sears & Roebuck of tractors. The trucks were colloquially called Epa-traktors, named after a chain of low-priced commodities. In modern times, the truck has evolved into something not that different from the Australian “Ute”. The trucks were used in a similar fashion to the original Jeep and the English Land Rover, working on fields or hauling stuff around the farm. Tractors were made out of anything resembling a vehicle, most of them had Ford A or AA origin. So, what did the farmers do? They had to make with what they had, and what they had was trucks. In Sweden before and during the second world war, there was a shortage of tractors and farm equipment.
And the history of this peculiar kind of truck was born during wartime shortage. (first posted ) Necessity really is the mother of all invention.
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