I bought it from the dealer Tore Wennman Gnarp though perhaps not as you think. The car stood in Tore’s branch in Stockholm. He had that as a run around car and when the branch was closed Lars made an offer on the car for fun mostly. It was parked and left in 15 years.
- When I took it out I put in the battery and
poured a splash of gasoline in the carburetor and it fired up and ran perfectly. It is completely untouched from 1956. Every year there is a veteran market in Gnarp. This year I had packed the Rekord with the stuff the night before.
In the morning there was three inches of snow on the ground. I took it anyway on the rock-hard tires, sat in the swapmeet and felt good when I suddenly heard that they cried out my plate number as the first prize winner in the European class and the judges also wondered who owned the ‘new’ car.
Olympia 1955
- The black is not mine but Tore Wennmans though perhaps not as you think. It is in Germany now. The car dealer Tore Wennman in Gnarp is the man everyone has a story about, says Lars.
Tore is a colorful Gnarp citizen that also has a museum in his car dealership that he still operates, this long after joining the pension.
Jan Silén, who writes in Worldkustom and lives in Gnarp particularly remember a purchase he made. Tore had gotten into a car in Stockholm that Jan was interested and he asked about the color. After all the years and thousands of cars Tore had not absolute track but still want to serve the customer with a color.
-Pretty car, he said. Light, green-gray almost dark brownish, he said.
The black Olympia is currently sold to Germany as well as many of our enthusiast vehicles. SAAB: s and PV runs continuously to Germany. The undersigned’s Triumph Chopper recently went to the same country where the interest and above all, the economy is of a different caliber. One may wonder which country was shattered in ruins sixty years ago. The backyard Three Opels closes for the day and we thank enthusiasts Lars Selin, Tore Wennman and Jan Silén for the chat.