What’s the name of the game?

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Only those of you who never listen to the wireless or read a newspaper may have missed that ABBA have come with a new album after a 40-year absence. What’s more, they are working on a series of concerts in a custom-built London arena with ‘digital avatars’ rather than the four band members themselves. Crikey!

But this striking picture harks back to less digital days. As a matter of fact it was taken in 1966, when ABBA had not even formed. One of the four chaps on it, however, is ABBA-member Björn Ulvaeus in his previous band named the Hootenanny Singers so we thought this would be a good moment to share it with you. Björn, 21 years old at the time, had quite a career in front of him.

Over to the rolling chassis the boys are seen with. What is it, we wonder? The underslung chassis and the six-in-line surely must make it easy to identify? It’s right-hand driven and can only be British we reckon. Oh, and we also found another picture that gives a good view of the registration number: JPH 696. That is indeed a British plate but it didn’t bring us any further as the number is 'unknown' in the public DVLA database. So, what is it and what happened to it? Over to you!

Words by Jeroen Booij. Picture source unknown.

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