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