We love dirt roads!

Spring in the North has been wonderful this year, and with weeks of pure sunshine the Screwdrivers' cars have seen a lot of use. This last Sunday was no exeption with a nice gravel road cruise with a pair of "oneowneralloriginal" cars; 1961 T2 and 1952 T1.

Ådalsbruk Motormuseum

A cool little gatheringpoint for everyone into old cars and nostalgia.

The cars on display are constantly shifting, but the owner has his private collection of NSU cars and motorcycles on permanent display.

A little info, only in norwegian though:

http://www.nsuclubnorway.no/default.pl?showArticle=390&pageId=21

Summer is here!

Washed the storagedust of this old lady and took her out in the sunshine to get icecream. Happy easter holidays!

Dream garage...dream house....or both?

Some of the Screwdrivers are looking forward to moving into new house very soon....all others look forward to the house warming party...

The "Unimog" house concept was unfortunately known to us at the time of starting the build....but here is inspiration to anybody wanting to combine their hobby and their life....and wife?

Check it out:
http://www.despoke.com/2014/01/10/haus-unimog-by-wezel-architektur-and-fabian-evers-architecture/

NASDAQ or FOURCAM?

About 15 years ago we were standing in a warehouse in Arizona shaking our head over the price tag of an unrestored fourcam motor....20K USD was "more than a driving 356" at the time and seemed crazy for just a motor.

Well...I am not sure what better stocks at NASDAQ we could have bought...but surely the Fourcam would have been a great investment - and we could even have had some fun with it on the way.

Let's see where this one ends - 3bids and no reserve is always a good thing.

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/171207023079?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEWAX%3AIT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

13 Jan update:
Got to 154K USD, then deleted....same story...

What "financial crisis" ?

Fascinating stuff...

"Clearing out the yard" all of a sudden became very profitable for this houseowner in upstate New York... We look forward to seeing #83385 on the road again very soon.

Taking the road less travelled..

Is usually a good way to start when you want to search for cool stuff. But sometimes the best hiding place is right in plain sight. As was the case with this cool 1950s Ljungmans Star 76 fuel pump. Sitting in front of a farm right next to a heavily trafficked road we must have passed it a zillion times over the years. By pure coincidence we spotted it this weekend, and naturally we had to stop by and ask if it was for sale. Surprised by our question, the farmer said he thought about tearing it down for scrap within the next few days..

Well, obviously it came home with us on the trailer. 

So keep your eyes open, cool old stuff is still out there.

Oh, and always bring a trailer ;-)

Mouse motor porn

This weekend we attended the 10th anniversary edition of JPMs annual dyno day.

Like every year it is a fun filled event with a great dinner/party on the saturday night to top it of.

The absolute highlight was seeing our friend Anders Widgren's mouse motor being run on the dyno.

Built by Anders himself the 1776cc motor feutures heavily modified VW 043 heads by our man Johannes Persson. Raptor camshaft, lightweight JE pistons, Italian IDAs and a 030 distributor..

No MSD gadgets, no modern wizardry, just good old knowledge and attention to detail.

205hp @ 7250rpm

Hats of Anders, the Screwdrivers salute you!

Anders is a member of the Oslo based Stormtroopers club. A great bunch of guys that are heavily into old school cal look.

For more info on Johannes Persson and JPMotorsport check out his website:

www.jpmotorsports.se

Bergrennen here we come!

Paul and Fez have arrived from the UK and we are ready to hit the road up to "Renn-dalen" deep in the norwegian forrests for this weekends event. Bergrennen!

A great deal on a 1946 Beetle

This is something you do not see every day... a 3-owners-from-new, unmolested and correct 1946 Beetle... At the price of 40K USD before bargaining...this is by far the best deal we have seen in a long time...

Bananabumpers and big bakelite knobs....gotta love it!

Check it out:
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=1530511

(Not our car, and we only know what the ad says)

How we spent our saturday morning

1961 15w deluxe bus rescue. Having the proper tools made this job a breeze :-)

A train to catch..

 

When all of a sudden this little fella came 

along we were surprised by the very

familiar sounding engine noise.. 

Naturally we had to investigate, and what do you

know...

A sweet little 30hp VW industrial engine.

We even got the operator to take us along for a little

rail inspection trip :-)

Center mounted hydraulic jack makes it

possible to lift and turn the little train if needed.

This little thing was COOL!

58th annual Sandviken - Sundvolden

The Norwegian classic car club (Norsk Veteranvogn Klubb) held the 58th edition of their annual Sandviken - Sundvolden "race" yesterday, so we took the Rometsch coupe' out for a little navigation rallying. Here are some random pics.

This Chevrolet had a norwegian built aluminium body and a cool "fat man's" steering wheel

Nice patina on this awesome Stutz.

Streamlined Peugeot

This enormous Pierce Arrow was found rotting away in a creek in the norwegian forrests many moons ago. With only fragments to start with this was a very impressive restauration.

Trusty old swede.. 1935 Volvo 659

An interesting oddball. Aircooled inline 6 cylinder Franklin. With bonnet closed the cylinders are sealed of from the rest of the enginebay. Cold air is forced through the grille, down past the cylinders and from there it is sucked out and under the car through a huge crankmounted fan where the flywheel normally would be..

Navigation rally plaques dating from 54 and onwards

15 years and ..... like blid!

The Screwdrivers club is 15 years old this year - and still going strong! Founded to formalize a group of friends under the principle "aill mot aill". Indeed a good group of selected seven...

Thanks for the first 15 guys - a lot more to go...

A memorable moment from the 7-year anniversary of the club, celebrated at Bug Run at Mantorp:

Time to materialize your early Porsche dream ?!

A north-England hoarder has quietly assembled a collection of about 200 pre-1975 Porsches...all models included, most of them LHD from the US. Now he has decided to unload and sell them all. The task has been given to the small, local auction house "Anglia Auctions" - and tomorrow, 24. August 2013 - the first 35 cars are to be sold off to new buyers. 

We expect a "Aalholm all over again" - with prices skyrocketing, but who knows.....?

Check out the impressive list:

http://www.angliacarauctions.co.uk/classic-auctions/saturday-24th-august.aspx

EMPI 5 centercap

For those of you who wonder how an original early aluminium EMPI 5 centercap should look like, this is it..

Sorry for the few updates on the blog...

But thanks to everybody that endured the shifting weather, and once again made SCC great!

The long road to SCC..

The Screwdrivers members are starting to show up at the Aasum farm for the upcoming weekends season highlight SCC. 

But this time getting here proved to be a little more of a challenge than usual.

Alien had ignition issues on his supercharged "schmutzplatz" racer that needed a little roadside attention.. Then we ran out of gas on the highway in the BD panel, before eventually having the same car break down again due to rear brake failure... Dooh!

But as they say, the show must go on... So tomorrow the show preparations begins!

Hope to see all of you at Gardermoen Raceway this weekend!!

Flugplatz Schmutz Rennen

Under a week to go. Are you ready to rumble? We sure are!!

Meeting up with old friends

Patiently awaiting an old friend at the small docks in Hamar. Paddle steamer approaching is called Skibladner, and is the worlds oldest of it's kind still in timetable traffic. She made her maiden voyage on august 2. 1856, and has been operating the same route on norways biggest lake Mjøsa ever since.

The fact that the panelvan was sold from Hamars VW dealer Olrud in november 54, and having spent all its life in the area gives us good reasons to believe that these two workhorses have met quite a few times in the past