Just winging it

Clock’s two. 80 degrees.  Ragtop down.  Were to go? ?  -Dunno.  Out . Like when nineteen. 

The Bazookamotor wakes up with a bang.  What that old fart made in that engine compartment I don’t know but there aint no onkle-engine stirring glycol under the hood.

Radio’s on, calypso-advertising and steelband-klunk.  Easy hits and tic tacs.  Waveing people in the fast lane and the standard question:

-What year is it?

-Sickstisicks, I say for the third time today.

Happy, friendly, polite people fast to appreciate their lane neighbor.

Months go by. As a mumbling Swede you’re always surprised by this great people.

Seeing some open shop doors. Noel Pooler from California has moved to the calm side, Florida. Found the 1940 LaSalle just round the corner. The tags cought his attention. The car showed to be sold new in his home town. That settled it.

In the “boxes”  around his friends are working on their cars.One arrives with new chrome from the local chrome guy. A good winter day it seems to me.

Now he restores to original . Time is plenty. The River is tuned in and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young takes the afternoon away.   

Having a Ceasar sallad at a food tincan on wheels alongside the road. German Chief. Have been eating there before. Terrible English like mine but that guy sure can cook. Pita gyro, pasta, sallad, everything tastes great. All of a sudden a garage door is openend and a race car is rolled out. Next to it a Rolls Royce on a lift but that gets no pic. 

Taking of on Summerlin Road. I never go Summerlin. That’s why today.   A rod for sale at the curbside.  Pops the camera from the shoulder and hopes for the best while wobbeling between lanes like a fishing lure.

Hangs a left into an area with warehouses and ohh yeah. More toys to come.

Bill France is finishing a Graham Hollywood from 1941 and I don’t get anything of it witch he has the biggest understanding for. He lights a cigarr, lays down the tools and decide to enjoy the wild stranger. We get to be buddys in two sec’s lika always in this staggering country.

Bills dad was a killer in mechanics but granpa’ was way cooler. He participated in the team that invented the electric self starter  at  Dayton Enginering, later  Delco, later bought by  GM.   Cadillac was the first to present it  1915.

-Pop always dreamed of a superchargedGraham but only 1400 were built in 41 of witch  only 875 had supercharger so … I’m making that dream of my dad come true even though he’s gone now. The supercharger is driven by a fan belt (click the pic) and kicked the 95 horse six cylinder up to 155 horse. An awesome muscle car at that time. 

Bill ashes on the floor and shares the most exotic knowlege about the car and car history in general. It’s a gift to come to listen to these guys.

-There are 66 left of them now, he says

The shop he has for free and the dream i slowly coming true.

His dad bought a Cord instead and by that he ruined two of the car history’s beloved cars when totallying his Cord into a Chrysler Airflow turning that into debree also.

Right there a lot of car heritage went down the drain, Bill said.

Hey, you know , I have a 427 sideoiler and an AC Cobra and . . .

Hang a left on Boyscout. Sees a Cadillac and a bunch of 70 Chevelles. The radio plays You’re the one with the Orleans and I get clouds in my eyes, look up in the blue sky  and feels my lady back in Sweden, Lilian.
-That’s the song right there for us to play in the band Krantz&Krantz I think.

Nope its not a fifties rock an droll jada jada let’s stomp the hardwood floor spilling bear from plastic cans at 1:30 am.  And no it’s not uppright bass wella-hella-jella-billy-baby-humpa.

It´s  a romantic cluster of kind harmonys, walking bass, double guitars playing solo, break, bridges, accapella, singing in harmony, a quite stick, but of all it’s about long lasting love.

You’re the one. That’s the song we’re gonna play for you in Sweden in the summer of  2015 folks

Suddenly I recon’.  Here around  I had the windshield  put in on my 1964 Buick LeSabre before skipping it to Sweden selling it at the Classic Car Week 2014.  Adjacent  hot rods are on growth.

Stops at NAPA to buy break hoses for my RAM in Sweden.  Not far from that a VW grader !

The sun is about to finish today’s pace.  Time to go down to Caloosahatchee and see the star sink into the sea listening to congas and guitars watching kids making castles in the sand.

Then home for a one man barbecue in the back yard . Go’na be warm tonight.