Everybody in Scandinavia knew famous Viktor Klimenko in the seventies.
SUPERSTAR
With only two channels on the TV in the seventies you got instant famous throughout Sweden after a TV show and Viktor Klimenko was in the tellie many times. The Russian with the voice.
Like man like car
What I did not know was that he rode DeSoto.
The tall Russian drow apparently in fat amerikan wings during his highly acclaimed tours.
Three surprises in one.
This I got to meet during a reporting trip to Finland.
A young boy sailed up with a straight, red 1959 Desoto Sportsman with Viktor Klimenko in the speakers !!!
-Of course I bounced.
1. The voice was an instant flash from forty years back in time. Forgetting a chemical in the brain’s subdivision i.e. memories forgotten to remember. I saw posters outside BP-petroleum gas stations , TV appearance with tassels around the legs, a face cut in stone and a voice big as an ocean.
2. The car was a really nicely preserved DeSoto 59
Two in one and number three?
3. The owner was not an old fart around 60 but a young man with the whole life ahead.
He took of to the tunes of “the hymn I’ve heard about a city above the clouds” with the Kossack from Karelia.
A Swedish, American, Finnish, Russian lesson in recent history.
– Thank’s for the ultimate smack in your face right there during the morning preparations of the Krantz Challenge car show in Nykarleby Finland.
