Three-wheeled light commercial vehicles were quite a common sight in the years just before and after WWII, mostly due to eco- nomic circumstances. The German brand Goliath was very success- ful in producing three-wheelers in the 1930s, but during the war the factory was destroyed. In 1949 however, the first new Goliath left the rebuilt […]
Saab Aktiebolaget itself has never built a pickup, but some private coachbuilding companies, predominantly in Sweden, converted Saab 95s into pickups on customer request. In the 1970s even British luxu- ry sports car brand Aston Martin, known for its legendary models like the DB3 racer and James Bond’s DB5 had a few Saab 95s converted […]
The German Tempo Matador had a rather unusual design with its protruding nose, small side windows and somewhat sad-looking ‘face’ due to the downward shape of its split windscreen. Neverthe- less, just like the Volkswagen Transporter its design was inspired by American trucks and diesel railway locomotives. Volkswagen also supplied the 1.2 litre engines and […]
A mere 131 2CV pickups were manufactured by Citroën, and only in the UK. Just three are known to survive. In 1953 Citroën opened a factory in Slough, UK, to produce right-hand drive 2CV saloons and vans for the UK market. Since utility vehicles were popular among farmers, ‘Slough’ also developed a pickup version. Competition from […]
The pickup version of the Volvo PV444/544 is a very rare sight, and always has been. In the late 1940s, early 1950s body variants like pickups, station wagons, special vehicles and the odd convertible were not produced by the Swedish make itself. These were made by external coachbuilding companies like Klippan, based on a Volvo-supplied rolling […]