SWEDEN. What happens when you combine the thinnest 3 cubic inch that Sweden’s seen with the most powerful engines on the roads. Answer: You get an inspiring day in the grass where the cross-fertilization is complete. by Lars Krantz.
Själevad, august 2012.
Huh, 2012 !!? Yes, I knoow but what do you do when you do not get to decide for yourself … but now I do, and now it’s really time for the enthusiasts.
Wroom. Nice to be able to follow their path by looking at the smoke. Zundapp ahead.
At the southern entrance to Örnsköldsvik in Själevad where Moälven meets Recreation Center’s coffee house. Here Norrlands Motor Historian moped section gathered at the far side of the croquet lane.
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15 Corvetter on a stick. The united mumble during the day was: – How fun. Can youimagine we’re that many in the area even though not everybody is here!
On the other end, Björn Johansson called together local Corvettes. 15 Corvettes and 48 mopeds came in the sunshine and never before had the difference been so great between the vehicles and the resemblance was so striking between enthusiasts.
Three cubic inch
There were moped riders in the Corvette gang who stumbled into croquet hoops to look at theire childhood DBS. Scooter Jackets synthesis among sports cars during the day. Interest in motor was the same. Maximum engine today was a 454 cubic inch big V8. Minimum engine was a two-wheeler at 3 cubic inches.
While Corvettes let their power steerings hiss together for a group photo threaded moped riders into the snack hut to get the starting number.
A half hour later 48 carburetors opened wide open when starting grid painted air two stroke blue and helmets with checkered tape stormed straight towards the Corvettes.
The men in the cars looked up and saw the horde deliver a broadside turning left in front of them, stomped into gear one and struggled up on the asphalt road. Soon after, the cars’ turn to take the road in possession ..
Towards the cars! Old sport farts never misses a chance to compete.
Field off. To the left, Björn Johansson initiator of the meeting and in the middle the 58-ball that won Best in Show today, Arnold Sundqvist, Köpmanholmen. To see them come on line and in an instant open like a fan and yaw out in formation was unforgettable. Must be Corvette’s to do that
-Moo said the cow in the back! -425 horses outside the fence but not one bull for me here. Donald Öberg’s 1969 with 427-motor och four on the flor got the Krantz-price för best Corvette today.
After that low dive over the asphalt the Corvette people took to the coffee house and the talk about pistons and horsepower resumed at the tables though the numbers had risen from 5.5 to 400.
Rather croquet-moped than golf-cart. Lennart Nilsson hade built his own version of the harware stores delivery moped. – Does 40 in fourth gear. Lennart won the moped show today.
Original frame with bed from Rusta ( low budget store) and a 110cc Fiddy crossmotor with muffler, rear wheel och and big gear from a 80cc Fiddy cross.
Outlaw. Harald Simonssen came in a Corvette 350 i badboy-style. Original the 69 is Riverside Gold. Harald, who had the body done, heard about the cruise and jumped to the satin black jar and made a quick paint and assemble with matching stock rims and baby moons just to get it on the road. Heavy Harald! Good initiative.
Before thi evening was over the nicest vihecles had been premiered with price and ovations and the happiness was of the same kind in both sides.
Krantz price for the mopeds went to Roger Norberg for his astonishing barn find. A 1955 Rexoped Crossline from Dalarna.
1955
