Hard to come up with a clever title for this one, as the car was actually named the Troll.
Although it seems few people have ever heard of the Troll, this little 2+2 fiberglass "sports coupe" was actually one of the first attempts to start a car company in Norway. Chevrolet had just introduced the Corvette in North America, and no one in Europe had yet used cost effective fiberglass for car bodies. Unfortunately the end result was this little flat-nosed Saab-looking car with Mercedes 300SL flourishes that was about as attractive as it's namesake. Powered by a 700cc 30hp Gutbrod engine, only 5 were made between 1956 and 1958.
Although ambitious, it proved to amount to little more than a precursor to the AMC Gremlin - an ugly little car with an ugly name.
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