A good start for my trailer make

Sometimes you wonder how the people think when they announce things. by JanSilén

Sometimes you wonder how the people think when they announce things. I thought I had found a good ground in a standard Vaungard to a trailer construction.

I have been nearding in collecting nostalgic stuff from the 40’s 50’s and 60’s, any fuel nostalgia. Built a little nostalgia gas station outside the garage for a number of years ago and then I was a little worried about how to get gadgets to fill the shelves inside. But it went very quick to fill them up, well now it’s chock-full in there so it can not fit so much more. We had a large unused room in the house where there was business at one time. There were all rubbish piled up. You came three feet inside the door then it was stop.

There  one could build a nostalgia cafe and elaborate on the theme of nostalgia with the gas station. After several trips to the dump it  started.

Even now I was a little worried about not finding the right things to the café. But it was also better than expected, so now it’s jammed there too.

Read many ads in newspapers and you may sometimes wonder why people put ads on there seems to be mighty difficult to send things. In any case, I saw an advert far south of Sweden in a newspaper about two sofas and a nice table from a 50th century café.

Calling on the ad, and things remained at a reasonable price and I wanted to buy it. Well, I wonder if he could send things? But no it he could not, then he has to repackage the furniture and the take he could not, so there was no deal on them. Well there are plenty of gadgets still apparently.

Sees  another ad on the two Castrol oil pumps in cast iron for the 150 AD in an advertisement also from the south of the country. Call and want to buy and wonders if he could send the pumps. Then get the answer that it gets expensive with the freight for you, it is probably like 50 bucks.

Can’t you come and get them, he wonders.

– Yeahh sure, I have over 400 miles one way so it will be cheaper if you send them. But it seems difficult even for this man  to send the pumps.
-I have  over a mile  to the bus station, and am 80 years so forget it , he says.

I offer myself to pay double the price, but take the bait, he did not.
-Hey you  he answers curt, I do not buy job, I had thought that someone around here would buy them.
– ALL RIGHT !? But why advertise it as a nationwide motor magazine then? It would be easier to put up a note in the grocery store then.

Got an idea to build a wagon for the custom Buick and start gathering pieces to the construction when an for a forest wreck Standard Vangard pops up, sold whole or in parts, it, grille and bumper looks useful, a great start for a trailer build that fits my car.

Calling on the ad that is way up in northern Sweden and a not too talkative person answers. I ask if I can buy some parts of the car and it went well.
-What Do you want for the parts?
– What do you pay?
-How bout $70 + shipping?
Yes, it went well and he would send parts. I’m satisfied, ending  the call thinking that “northerners can be trusted” This was going easy.

The items will be sent on the bus within a few days. A week goes by and no parts show up so I’m calling again, and is told that the car sits out in the woods and there had grown up a tree in front of it so it was a little difficult to remove the bumper, but he would fix it for the weekend. Can magine it looked something like this except for the brand of the car.Two weeks but no parts show up so I call again, and now he is in Finland. But as sson  he comes home for the weekend, he would send the parts. There goes another few weeks, but no packets will. Calling again and wondering if he had sent the parts? But he had not.

Now he is asking if I knew how the parts are mounted?
-Yes bumper is probably mounted with two bolts on each side of the car. The grill should be fastened from the outside or the inside. If here is power in the vicinity you can of course cut loose parts as the car was a forest wreck.

Oh yes sir now he would grab the thing and fix this weekend. There went another few weeks and ask if he had sent them?  Yepp, nahh no but ok  he answers, bumper, he had sent on the bus and it should come about some day, and the rest would be sent to the weekend.

Hmm, why do two packets and send them on two different occasions? No package this time either and now I gave up. Maybe he sent parts of the bus up to Murmansk and further by boat through the northeast passage across the Arctic Ocean via the North Pole and down the back of the world beyond the south pole and up against Sweden.

Probably the boat had defect  compass, or frozen at one of the poles or have vanish like that Malysisian aircraft because we have not seen the package. This 5 years ago, and yet no  things, so instead . . . . . .   it became an Opel Rekord from 1958 who lost its  life to my trailer build.   To be continued.