US Cars Overseas – Sweden

Thought I’d share this.  It’s amazing how many and the variety of  US cars made in the 50’s and 60’s made it overseas.  It’s also very interesting what they do with them.  Check out these MOPARs in Sweden.  Way Cool!!!

From:   http://www.streetlegaltv.com/news/a-variety-of-mopars-in-sweden-to-envy/

A Variety Of Mopars In Sweden To Envy

Michael Hardingby on April 23, 2012

You can always tell a car guy by looking in his garage and seeing what he has in there. If you see a couple of cars, that’s could be your first clue. But when you see muscle cars from the 60’s and 70’s, and engines on pallets, car lifts, stickers from internet performance shops, and various parts on the shelves, then you know that garage isn’t the run-of-the-mill garage.

Looking at Anders Ohlin’s garage in Sweden lets you know that this guy is into cars and performance – particularly Mopar performance. His collection of Mopar muscle cars is enough to make you drool.

Anders collection is interesting, and he says that some of his cars are the only ones that he knows of in Sweden. He considers himself a fanatic, as do many of his friends. Just looking at the pictures in his garage and you can see that he likes to surround himself with performance.

Some of his cars include a 1958 DeSoto Fireflite with a 361 Wedge, a 1965 Dodge Coronet A990 Super Stock Clone with a race HEMI that he imported in 2010, a 1964 Dodge 440 that has a 426 Wedge with dual carbs, a 1962 Chrysler 300 Sport Coupe that appears to have a 413 with dual carbs, and also a 1964 Dodge 330 to round out the cars we know of.

You can check out the YouTube video and see him moving his 1964 Dodge 330 around the garage. It’s a very healthy sounding Mopar, and if the deep rumble of that exhaust doesn’t sound like music to your ears, then you need to turn your speakers up!

 

Thanks for reading.

Tim

Car Swap Meet Gems

It’s not that often that I get out to a car swap meet.  Here in Arizona you are in  for a hot time…tempature-wise, do to the lack of shade.  Car parts so hot you’ve got to have oven mitts to handle ’em.  But the are still fun.

Down the street at the local drag strip they had one this weekend and I thought I’d pass on a few of the gems they had for sale.  There was a bit of a car show there as well.

You could pick-up some ‘Field Fresh’ projects like this coupe:

 

“Trailer Not Include”read the sign

 

Love the rear window

The floors are solid.

 

$3500 and the cob web are no extra charge.

 

 

Or this Pick-Up:

You could also find some project that the owner just couldn’t finish…some with some very extensive ‘restoration damage’  like tons of bondo holding the fender together.

This Chevy wasn’t the worst, but it had a lot of bondo.

This Dodge pickup wasn’t horrible. It would make a nice starter project.

This Plymouth Barracuda was pretty stripped down.

I actually think the owner had a lot of the parts laying on the ground for sale separately.

This ’65 Chevy is has been lowered and that’s about all.

Lot work left on this project.

Some cars did find new homes:

This Dodge found a new home.

This Imperial looks like it’s going to its new garage under its own power.

 

I love this car!!!!

Going to need some interior work. This one sported the push button shifting.

 

Coming up… some of the show cars.  Some nice rods.

Thanks for reading.

Tim

1998 Camaro Z28 – NICE!!! Update!

You are gonna to love this car.

It is a one owner Camaro Z28.

ONLY 78,700 miles on this V8 with automatic transmission

Black & White with white leather interior (in perfect condition)

T-tops and ground effects

Fully loaded including:

power door locks, power windows, tilt wheel, fog lights, power remote mirrors, power seat, AM-FM  6 speaker  stereo with CD player,

theft deterrent alarm system, cruise control, anti-lock brakes, rear window defogger.

I know the owner and this car has had the best care.  It is an AZ car and is always garaged or covered when it’s not moving and it DOES move.

What’s under the hood?

GM’s Generation III V-8 engine as configured in the Corvette.  It is the all-aluminum 5.7-liter (350-cubic-inch)  produce up to 350 horsepower in the two-seat sports car.

 100% Stock.   More Pics To come.

Interested?    Call me at 520-405-5314 or email me at timsweet@cox.net.

Asking $9k. That’s a steal in this condition. This isn’t my car, but if you buy and don’t like, I’ll buy it from you!!!!…Actually, I ought to buy it myself!!! I”m going to think about that some.

She looks great with the T’s off!!!!

 

Engine Pic1 – SOOOO CLEAN!!!

 

Engine Pic 2. Nicely Maintained!!!

 

Perfect Stock Interior!!!

 

Room for 2 in the back. Although it doesn’t look like anyone has ever sat back there!!!!

Interested?    Call me at 520-405-5314 or email me at timsweet@cox.net.

Thanks for reading.

Tim

Car Production Numbers. They Made How Many? 1956

Well I wasn’t present for the 1956 year but it was an interesting year.  Lincoln and Continental were separate makes and interestingly enough the Clipper (a model of Packard) tried ‘independence’ on for size.  Oh…and there were some very cool show cars.

The finished out with Chevy and Ford way out in front with 1,567,117 and 1,408,487 – respectively.  They were followed over 500,oo behind, were Buick with 573,024, Plymouth with 571,634 and Oldsmobile with 485,458.  The rest of the field looked like this:

Pontiac – 405,730

Mercury – 327,943

Dodge – 240,686

Cadillac – 154, 577

Chrysler – 128,322

DeSoto – 109,442

Nash – 83,420

Studebaker – 69,593

Lincoln – 50,322

Hudson – 22,588

Clipper – 18,482 (out paced Packard by nearly 8,000 cars)

Imperial – 10,684

Packard – 10,353

Metropolitan – 9,0868

Continental – 2,550

Here is an ad for a 1956 Clippard Super…Looks alot like…>>>

…this 1955 Packard Clipper…doesn’t it?

1956 Show Cars were really hot looking.

1956 Centurion by Buick. Come on!!! Warp speed Mr. Sulu!!

Pontiac was in the game with their 1956 Pontiac Club de Mer show car. I like it!!!

What? A Parkard you say?!!!! Yup this was the Predictor (name only would have killed this model). But just think how cool that would have been!!!!

A few other things were happening in 1956 like:

– Studebaker’s Goldenhawk was given Packard’s 352 cid V8

– American Motors developed a 200 pound air-cooled V4 engine

– Plymouth ran a gas-turbine car from New Your to L.A.

It’s ugly!!!

Thanks for reading.

Tim

27th Annual Chevy Showdown – Videos

As a wrap up here  are some videos.

Ok..this guy is clearly lost…Who brings a Mustang (even an extremely nice one) to an All Chevy Show:

Listen to this Chevy:

Two more to listen too:

And although there were a lot more entries for this show I’m going to end this series with one that brought back a lot of memories. This wasn’t a 1966 like my very first car, but it was pretty closed.  Look over this Impala.

Thanks for reading.

Tim

27th Annual Chevy Showdown – 1980 Chevy Malibu Classic

As I ran though the photos for the all chevy how here Tucson, Az thought I’d follow-up with a few more.

Sitting under the tree at the far end of the parking lot was this great looking 2 door Malibu.  It as tough looking little car with a 350.

This proves that a two door version of the normally . blah looking car can be cool looking.

 

 

Signs says it all…

Meek and mild looking…..but OH…..WAIT!!!!?!!??!   What do we have here???!!!!!!

Are those straight dual tailpipes?!!!!?????? Yeah..they are!!!

Thanks for reading,

Tim

 

Parking Lot Spotlight 1956 International

Here’s another parking lot find.

This pickup is good shape and that could be the original paint.

1956 International Pickup. (Try not to look at the white mustang!!!)

 

This is the S100.

This truck came with a 3.6L 220 cubic inch L6 and 3 on the tree (3 gears shift on the steering column).  Love the hub caps.

Value of these truck can range  between  $11,600 in top condition to as little as $450.

These are great little trucks.   Here is a little help when you need to shift your ’56 International.

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Thanks for reading.

Tim

27th Annual Chevy Showdown, Tucson, AZ Part 4

Here is a great ’57 Chevy that was so well done, I had to take some video.

 

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This was a fantastic Car!!!

Thanks for reading
Tim

27th Annual Chevy Showdown, Tucson, AZ Part 3 – The Trucks

Next up…The trucks.

There were some beautiful and well done trucks at this show. Check them out!!

This pick-up was off in a corner of the lot...

There was a window crank between the two front windows for opening them up.

More coming up.

Thanks for reading.

Tim

27 Annual Chevy Showdown, Tucson, AZ Part 2 – Corvette Action

Here is Part 2  this is the Corvette action.

First I really liked this striping on this ’77 Vette.

 

Look closely at the next few photos the stripe moves from dark to almost white.

 

 

 

Oh...and the stance on this is just extraordinary!

 

One more 77 .

One on looker called this a plain jane Vette, I told him there's no such thing!!!

 

Here are the 50’s era Vettes.

 

A little video clip…I didn’t add the music.

 

 

And the 60’s Vettes.  The silver 63 is Steve Fagan’s.  Owner of Hot Rods and Classics, located here in Tucson.  They do great work including a lot of my engine work for the Mustang, which helped me win my First Car Show Trophy!!  His Corvette has taken two trophies in the last two shows.

Steve Fagan's 64

Little more of Steve’s StingRay

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The driver in the red Vette caused a few nervous moments as it took her a few tries to get into that parking spot.

Here’s another shot of the 60’s Vettes

1960's

Coming up next -the trucks!!!

Thanks for reading.

Tim