Esther is a Lotus 7 type car made in Ugglerum, Sweden. The company was founded by Lars Svensson and Magnus Haferbier in 1987. They started off with a shingle wood board jig who had been used for earlier Lotus 7 copies in the Kalmar area. However new ideas came and the first chassis was sold unfinished and a new design was made, this time based on a Triumph Herald as donor. Since the mk2 chassis in 1988 over 45 chassis' have been sold. The Lotus Seven is a small, simple, lightweight two-seater open-top sports car, which have been called a motorcycle on four wheels. It is characterised by very good acceleration but a low top speed, handling is lively and the ride is uncompromising. The drag coefficient is around 0. ... cars go vroom vroom . ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Kalmar (population 59,308) is a Municipality in southeastern Sweden, on the mainlands coast of the Baltic Sea, strategically watching over the narrow sound to the large island Öland, since 1972 connected by the Öland bridge. ... The Triumph Herald was a small two-door car introduced in 1959 by the Standard-Triumph Company. ...

An Esther can be build with engines from Ford, Opel, Volvo, Alfa-Romeo and VW, with De Dion tube or live rear axles and different types of 4 and 5 speed gear boxes. Ford may mean a number of things: A ford is a river crossing. ... Opel, originally and more correctly known as Adam Opel AG is an automobile maker in Germany. ... AB Volvo (or Aktiebolaget Volvo) is a Swedish world leading manufacturer of commercial vehicles, buses and construction equipment, drive systems for marine and industrial applications, aerospace components and services. ... Alfa Romeo is an Italian automobile manufacturer. ... Volkswagen (VW) is an automobile manufacturer based in Wolfsburg, Germany. ... A de Dion tube is an automobile suspension technology. ... Solid axle and Panhard rod on a 2002 Mazda MPV A live-axle (also called solid-axle, beam, or dead-axle) suspension is an automobile suspension that uses a single-piece axle to connect the front or rear wheels, side-to-side. ... In mechanics, a transmission or gearbox is the gear and/or hydraulic system that transmits mechanical power from a prime mover (which can be an engine or electric motor), to some form of useful output device. ...

External links

• http://www.esther.se