Danish delights

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The Danes have bacon, Bang & Olufsen and Brigitte Nielsen. Motoring wise it’s another story. The only cool classic car of Danish design we managed to find was the SVJ, built between 1962 and 1967 by Steen Volmer Jensen, a GT on Auto Union underpinnings and mated to Wankel power which Steen drove for over 300,000kms before it found its way to the National Motor Museum.

But this omission does not distract the Danes from organizing the Copenhagen Historic Grand Prix, held last weekend for the 14th time. On a 2.6kms long closed roads circuit some of the country’s finer historic racers battled each other, among them Prince Joachim in a Ford dubbed ‘Denmark’s fastest Cortina’. Oh, hang on Tom Kristensen is Danish too. And, see, the two of them teamed up. Small world eh?

(Picture courtesy Henning Stump Bokan)

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