The vets vintage car blog

Autobianchi A112 and Lancia A112 - my old folks are said to have had one of those a couple of years before I came into the picture, shuttling my brother and sister to daycare around the mid-'80s. Now, I've heard at various times that it was a Fiat 127, or initially just a 127, but when Mom and Dad thought it over, they leaned more towards it being an Autobianchi Fiat or Lancia A112. This car was supposedly a real quick purchase that Mom and Dad got on the cheap. It eventually turned out to be a real dud: the car was worn out, and supposedly, it only lasted a few months before it had to be hauled off to the junkyard. Maybe that's why it was in such bad shape for the price, that it was simply a luxurious and expensive Autobianchi or Lancia A112. Perhaps even an Autobianchi Abarth. The Fiat 127 Sport and Abarth were also some of those so-called spirited versions of the Fiat 127. Maybe it was one of these that Mom and Dad drove instead.

Ursaab, that's a car of which there's only one at the Trollhattan Museum in Trollhattan Sweden, and it was the sole prototype for the Saab 92, the Ursaab, produced from 1949 to around 1956. The Ursaab dates back to 1947. My grandma is said to have driven a Saab 2-stroke, maybe a 1956-1958 model, possibly in the late '60s or early '70s. Apparently, she got it secondhand from the school principal in Kongsberg Norway, where she worked, who took good care of it. In the mid-'70s, my mom is supposed to have driven the same car until she met my dad, and they got themselves a Renault 12 station wagon. Whether my grandma and mom drove a Saab 93 with or without turn signals on the front sides, I'll probably never know. As for the Norwegian Troll Car, only four were produced at the factory in Lunde, Telemark, from 1956 until the bankruptcy in 1958. There's still an auto museum in Lunde, Telemark, with most of the cars on display. I'm not sure if one of them is at t...