DRIVING UP: Lasse Rydgren gears up for the local derby Lillestrøm-Vålerenga with a very special gesture: An almost exact copy of Tom Lund’s bright yellow Honda Civic from 1977. Photo: Privat
All the iconic LSK-Hondas from 1977 have been upgraded. It is not Lasse Rydgren’s boundless love for the club.
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Although the position in the table is not all the world’s for LSK at the moment, there is one scalp that hangs higher: Beat arch-rival Vålerenga at home.
Lillestrøm is therefore standing head and shoulders above the prestige settlement.
It will be the first game for coach Geir Bakke back at Åråsen after he moved from Lillestrøm to the arch-rival earlier this year.
Lasse Rydgren has been preparing for many months with a surprise in connection with the local derby.
He has hunted down a copy of the bright yellow Honda Civics that almost 50 years ago became the canaries’ “company cars”.
Romerikes Blad mentioned the matter first.
SPORTY: : – The car is surprisingly sporty! It has 60 horsepower and weighs just 750 kilograms, so it feels like flying. The Civic became popular in the 70s, when there was an oil crisis. New technology meant that it used little fuel, says the car’s “inventor”, Lasse Rydgren. He’s behind the wheel himself here. Photo: Cleanshotphoto/Eivind Nilsen
Completely new
Despite very modest external dimensions, the ultra-yellow Honda Civics caused quite a stir in the cityscape and indeed quite a bit across the country.
Because in a football context this was something completely new. The club was probably the first in Norway to arrange a car agreement for its athletes.
On a February day in 1977, at the importer Hasco Motor in Drammen, a total of 27 cars were handed over to players and the coaching staff, writes Motor.
– We in LSK introduced a number of new things in the 1970s: training during the day, common uniforms, which made competing teams say that we looked like a choir, and we thus introduced car deals, Ivar Hoff exults in an interview about the car agreement.
Lillestrøm Sports Club had become league champions the previous year. It was clear from the cars front fenders.
Had to be “Tommy”
– The second it opened up for personal license plates in 2017, I secured “LSK”. It has been on my Volvo V70, but has been unused for three years, says Rydgren.
Then the friend started talking about tracking down one of the game Civics, he says.
All of the cars turned out to be condemned.
The solution was a trip to Frankfurt earlier this year, where there was a similar copy for sale. It was a car deal for NOK 57,000.
The car was foiled exactly like the 1977 cars, with the exception of the sponsor names on the rear fenders, which are now local powers.
Rydhagen estimates that the project has cost around NOK 100,000.
The newly minted Civic bears Tom Lund’s name. He is without a doubt Lillestrøm’s greatest footballer, also considered by many to be the greatest Norwegian football artist of all time.
– It is also Tom Lund’s car, everyone stands around it iconic team image. I wanted to recreate the story and the feeling too, because this is not just a car.
PERSONAL number plate: Lasse Rydgren secured the LSK registration number in 2017. Photo: Privat
Secret
The car project has been secret until an event in Lillestrøm on Thursday.
– I expect there will be quite a stir when I drive around Lillestrøm. It will be in connection with the match on Sunday.
But to Oslo’s eastern districts never the yellow Honda.
– I don’t dare park on Vålerenga with it, no!
Otherwise, it will be used for leisure and winter storage, which is common for vintage cars.
– If not, they rust to death, like the original cars did.
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Published: 22.10.23 at 01:08
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