Swedish cars are known for being tough and durable. Volvo staked their reputation on it, and Saab was so nit-picky about how their cars were built that during their time with General Motors, they would pretty much re-engineer the platform to their standards. They weren’t spectacularly fast, but they could tolerate some brutal conditions…perfect for Scandinavia. Or Folk Racing, as you will see below. The premise is a bit similar to low-buck racing venues like ChumpCar or LeMons in the states: the word of the day is “budget”, anything goes in the engine bay so long as it’s not running a power adder, safety equipment is mandatory, and as long as you didn’t purposefully pile-drive the other car into the weeds, you should be okay with a little contact. Looking at the cars, it appears that “little contact” has a very loose definition, but that’s part of what makes it fun. The other part is that to keep racers honest about their low-buck status, any fan can, for a little over twenty bucks in U.S. cash, get a raffle ticket that offers them a chance to buy the car from the racer. Carfection recently took a look at what they termed “the most brutal and most friendly racing in the world”, showing us the inner workings of a racing series we’d love to be a part of. Now, if we could only find a somewhat running mid-1970s 242 to start building..