World of Classics Museum and sales opens in Sweden

Worldkustom is the first magazine out to show Leif-Ivan Karlsson’s knockout museum up on that worldwide. Welcome to the World of Classics Museums and Sales in Stockholm Sweden.

Eight months ago, in September 2014, Leif-Ivan Karlsson took the decision to build a car museum with all the cars he dreamed of since his teens. Unfortunately, he didn’t dream of Taunus, VW and SAAB 99.

Leif Ivan is an old greaser and car guy that have not changed over the years. Youth Love Susanne he holds tight as his taste for big American cars.

He liked the Chrysler 300C.  Chrysler 300C was when it came in 1957 a full size muscle car carrying a crazy amount of horsepower. Those who went VW that year were happy with 34 horses. Anyone who bought a Chrysler 300C got more than ten times of this power.

Few cars were made of the exclusive models. Few could own one. The remaning cars are extremely rare. Leif-Ivan bought a Chrysler 300C for his museum and for safety’s sake he gained the others also. Chrysler C, D, E, F, G, H and J can be viewed in a row plus a few other variations on the topic as a station wagon all in mint condition. And so he liked the Cadillac Eldorado 1959 and that dream car from  Buick in 1953, the  DeSotos and I think you get the view here.

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 The walls are going in fifties colors with reddish-gray carpeting on the floor lit by a hundred crystal chandeliers.

 

From the walls glow a hundred  neon signs. The museum has three floors. The first two have 10,000 square feet of exhibition space.

A black Cadillac from 1959 dominates first floor. At a closer look, it turns out that it is for sale
-Yes, I thought it would be fun for the visitors to also be able to buy if they see something they fall in love with, says Leif-Ivan

An incomprehensible landscape
A bit up the stairwell music seeps down from the third floor  banquet hall of 7000 square feet.

It has room for a hundred seated guests, large dance floor, large stage and a giant breakfast bar, pinball collection and. . . just then and there, I get hit by  the second floor right in the face.

We have been climbing the  stairway to heaven. Everything stops. A stunning landscape of dream cars settles for your feet with every step you take up to level two.

Chocked
Leif-Ivan is talking on but I hear nothing.

I stand paralyzed and feel the cars. Before me stands the most beautiful models produced in America ever.

The same to the  right, to the left and I know that behind me are several. A surreal experience.  

The Muscle Car Museum and the Corvette Museum and Ford Museum in the United States in all its glory, but here I am surrounded by the Swedish tradition of  the big unreachable American dream cars, all in perfect, mint condition.  Swedes have always loved the real irons. The full size fifties and sixties. When Americans go for Chevelle and GTO we pick Impala and Bonneville.  And here they are at a level that stuns and it is easily the best I’ve seen.

10 billion.
I want to sink to the floor, sit, no, lie down. No I want to move in here and never go out.

After a few minutes I hear a familiar voice fading in . It is Karlsson babbeling on. Wondering how much I missed, I come to senses and  continue to taking notes.

– I had a budget of 8 billion dollars, says the man who still have cars on the Atlantic coming in from the United States.
It will perhaps reach 10 billion but that’s cool hey!!  You have to  look at the  1958 Pontiac with buckets and tri-power, he says happily.
I put down my note pad. This is not to write about. It must be experienced.  

Roger Andreassen, A-Meck in Uppsala, originally from Kiruna, came with 30 feet 1958 Buick Limited molding and screwed it to the bar counter.

A-Meck in Uppsala has developed various roll tool to recreate elusive moldings. Delicious!

A coffee and cinnamon bun here sustains life.

Open for everybody.

The opening hours are addressed to individuals and  group travels as club outings, friends, societies, associations and corporate events. Details can be found on the museum website.