Deveraux-Kaiser Antique Car Meet

FLORIDA. Sure it’s tough. A meeting you can’t pronounce in a place you’ve never heard of. That  must be investigated. by Krantz

Deveraux Kaiser does not sound particularly exciting Kaiser Friendster excuse.

Nor Antique Car Meet, what antique? Antique old horse carriages with steam engines or?

 

I trusted Paul and went there anyway.

Paul Hodson’s my raggar friend in the States who dont know what a Swedish raggar is, but  would blend in at any Swedish pissing break anytime.

-I’ve Never been up there in Sarasota but they say it’s good, he said.

January 25^th  at ten in the morning I stretched out of the car and squinted at the white sun.

Certainly white. It shouted capitols  in my  eyes and I was thinking of “water” instantly. Flat as a pancake was the field. Not a tree, not a roof,  nothing, except cars of course and people fingering on  star engines from World War II.

Popped $ 60 in my shorts pocket and slammed the door on the Lincoln. Gored with the camera on the shoulder in the direction of people porridge in the south while I looked over my shoulder and trying to remember where I left the car. This is without references.

Approximately  beyond the entrance of six, seven, eighth rows but yet more to the west. Exhibitors like this red 1934 Oldsmobile paid 25 dollars. Visitors paid zero for entry and two dollars for parking

“This is such an event that started the car hobby” was written on a banner. Okay. Like Wheels Picnic in Bjästa  Sweden 1983 then.

Swim into cars, fine original ones and customs and hotrods instantly. Old  Paul, I think. That’s is the man.

 

At the food court are Per-Åke Frestadius and Lars Edlund.

-Good Burgers, they say, and suddenly it feels like Ramsele carshow in Sweden.

The Swedes are everywhere. Per-Åke is looking for a pickup to have when he digs for worms to catch fish in the Faxriver.  Ideally, a Chevy from the seventies. Straw hat on the bench seat and and a sun-bleached float on the bed  will be prefect – do ya know what I’m say’in.

I go for a walk. It is crowded with people and the northener in me whines.
– Why are all here  just today when I want to go for my self, and check this yellow Beetle.

Javelin’s cool. Especially those without rear seats.

What was the name they now? AMX GTX XYZ AAR GMC AMC?

Though AMC,  it was, well something else there, wasnt it? Something nodule with the merging of several smaller … but it was well Javelin which were once there as well? What’s Javelin actually?  It is an AMC – right?  So then it’s a  AMC Javelin AMX or  only AMC AMX? Is the AMX family of Study Baker and Hudson and Packard and. . .. GMC should go as well, as a   worm-truck for Frestadius?

It’s difficult to go to car meet. First, one can’t pronounce the name of the meeting and then you are nervous to not finding the car when you’re going home also has all these model years and editions, and drifts and bundle-brands  and suddenly I’m standing there, sweating again.

Well, that was not the interiors of Ford, was it?

Nah, that’s right.  Pressing on  and slam on the brakes squinting, but, but. One of those Superbirds so to speak ehh?.

Was it a a Dodge or a Plymouth? The Superbee is a Dodge and the Road Runner is a Plymouth  but Superbee badass was not Superbird well nope, that was the Daytona so … hello with this beeing a 66 something  they weren’t  invented the Superbirds …

Mopar mulch in the brain before lunch

Then the Swedes show up again  and they know everything of course. That was never built but  fun it was, they laugh. .

Why am I the speaker really.

Their wives come and they have been smart enough to keep track of salt this day.

Per-Åke scoops popcorn and head off on his truck hunting and Lars well, a picture  says more than …

 

After a few hours your saturated. A thousand cars. In the flyer it says 1800 vehicles okay  and the forty-sixth annual meeting it was . 2015 minus 46 will be … tough again but hey the correct answer’s 1969.

1969! That put perspective on life. When the first meeting was held was well Kjelle Power an exchange student  in the US? Sture Torngren was I guess building a  chopper in Täby and I was certainly in fifth grade and was diging for worms behind the barn in Ullånger  – without Chevy.

Now you know everything about Deveraus Kaiser Antique Car Meet.

Every year in January in Florida.