Joker (make of car)

Joker from 1972

Joker was a Danish car brand.

Company history

The company of Ole summer from Copenhagen began in 1970 with the production of automobiles. In 1972 production ended after seven copies were made.

vehicles

The only model was a fun and leisure vehicle for Scandinavia, inspired by the VW buggy . Instead of a Beetle base plate with an open plastic tub body, it had a tubular frame, a roof and engines and chassis from old Volvo vehicles. The frame enclosed the interior of the vehicle in the manner of a half-timbered building (space frame) and the compartments were clad with plywood panels. For driving a saw four-cylinder engine with 1986 cc displacement and 82 hp output of Volvo .

One vehicle is on display in Summer's Veteranbil Museum in Nærum .

literature

• Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .

Web links

Commons : Joker  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jörg Linser: Our car, a planned faulty design! ISBN 3-596-21990-6