some pictures of the project

steyr 55 - future plans

THE FIRST picture is something thats on my mind of the final version...except the body mods...
the car will go to the sand blaster & welder & painter in the end of november 2010.
M.(mr racetaxi) sarkela from mantsala city will start to rebuild the body ...

the first plan is to sandblast the lower parts of the body, and after that he could weld the body and after that the other parts could use some soda-blast...

then some primer or similar... to the naked "ugly duckling" body :-)
then ....well u have to check my blog... ;-)

i might be interested to change some parts...WTB seats, some badges, script-text to the rear, original gauges, etc... let me know if you need some axle stuff, original wheels...etc...

steyr 55 - documents :-)

papers, receipts, body plates, etc...

steyrs at the war - survivor of russian fire!

happened this friday:

i got Atte (previous owner, modifications) from Forssa to the phone, about his old HZ-3 steyr 55,
and he really was the history-source, truly amazing man...

He told me that this car was actually in the war, and the car got shots from the russian army...
i would guess that this car was (while totally new) taken to the war, not even registered to finnish roads...yet.
he told me that there are some bullet holes in the backseat area somewhere...(but so far i havent seen them)

the car was also driven on its left side, thats why theres some dents...
the steyr engine went dead somewhere in its history, so they took a vw splitwindow (engine 25 hp) and it went ok 90 km/h) with that...
Atte was the man that changed the 25 hp vw engine, VW brakes, and a peugeot 203 OD transmission... then the care went 120 km/h...the car was black with red interior, (my favourite)

the body mods were made in Vanaja body-factory, to make it look a bit more modern, (happened in the late fifties)
so this is the only this kind of steyr in the world. ;-)

so the car has been surviving from russian bullets at the WWWII, customized & hopped-up in the fifties in Finland, and now it will be reconstructed & modified again in Finland... the same way that it was at the history...
brakes, engine, tranny etc... ok, this time with big disc brakes from porsche, brand X transmission, a stout v-dub engine etc...

lets see how the story will continue...

ps if you have steyr 55 seats, or the transmission )peogeot 203 OD) of this car, let me know... ;-)

steyr 55 - a tiny mechanical wonder

finally i started to dismantle the ugly duckling...it is a totally amazing little car, there´s a half rack´n pinion steering, heh but only a half one... theres a small tank for grease, and a pedal for the co-pilot, who can grease up the balljoints while the pilot is driving, think a bout that! the grease system goes to the steering parts, ball joints etc... huh and in 1939 year. ok, the steering is pretty slow for sure, but i can guess that you did get a sweeet ride in this car... ill try to take the front axle combo off, and the rear axle also... more picks coming up. :-) HEY if you got spare parts let me know, floor boards, seats etc... jyrie (@) mac.com