Eskilstuna Vederandag 2013 [will add more as time goes on]

[Guest watanabe]

I went to the Eskilstuna Vederandag this year while taking a much-needed holiday in Sweden. It's a massive auto jumble, show and aircraft event, organised by the local flying club and ClassicMotor magazine. Throughout the day there were fly-bys culminating in a Spitfire that made several passes over the show field. 

I can't upload loads of photos at the moment because of a poor internet connection at the hotel, but I'll add some more when I get back to the UK. There was a mouth-watering array of cars there, and I reckon I saw about 75% of it because of the appalling traffic that followed a two hour drive from my aunt's in the south of Stockholm. 

The parts-swap section was colossal. If you wanted to restore an Amazon or PV, you needed to be there. There were stacks of American spares available, too. I managed to buy a dashboard clock for my Amazon from a stall. They were only included on the 1957-58 120s and they're really scarce. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I also visited the Volvo Museum in Arlanda, VP Autoparts in Sollentuna and the Saltsjöbaden Classic Car Show that ended up with a procession outside my hotel. I took a day trip over to Tallinn as well but it was surprisingly bereft of Soviet chod bar a GAZ Gazelle van that I mistook for an Iveco and a knackered Pobeda that was being used to advertise a restaurant. 

I have a slow three day drive to finish off the holiday - that will get PARENTS_WAT and myself back to Esbjerg and on to the ferry bound for Harwich. I've met up with them on and off over the fortnight and been into Stockholm a couple of times to meet up with friends.

[Skizzer]

Excellent, looks like a very pleasant change from a field full of Morris Minors / MGBs / lowered Golfs.

 

 

 

 

This is very cool.  I seem to remember there were a handful of them - some sort of futuristic promotional bus thing, made by General Motors or someone in the 1950s. Someone restored one a few years back and Classic & Sports Car did a feature on it.  Can try and dig it out if anyone cares.

[cort16]

Skizzer, yes do it. I'm sure I watched a TV program about those buses a while back/ You have to wonder how it managed to get over there. The swedes are mad for the big Yank v8's eh? Is fuel cheap over there or something?

[Skizzer]

Found it, surprisingly quickly.  Am slightly embarrassed that I recognised it from an article I read seven years ago, but I guess it's fairly memorable.

 

Click on the pages for a more readable version on Flickr (they're quite big files).

 

1956 GM Futureliner, Classic & Sports Car June 2006 by Skizzer, on Flickr

 

(Sorry for the thread hijack Wat.)

[Jim Bell]

Wot?

No rally cross 343 pic?!

[Jim Bell]

They deserve to stretch their legs, is what they deserve.

Sad for them to sit festering indoors.

[M'coli]

Any chance of not using the full resolution pictures,Wat? They're great but this thread's just locked-up my PC for the last 5 inmutes, I had to turn off the wi-fi to get stop it downloading the images and get control back.

[Tayne]

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[M'coli]

I re-loaded the thread with the task manager open, browser memory use more than trebled (240,000k with 9 tabs open, 760,000k with this one added) just by having one thread open.  ONE THREAD.  That's taking the piss.

 

As for modern computers, when I can find a laptop with a non-reflective screen in my price range, I'll buy it.  So far, I've given up on them as they're all shit.

[Wilko220]

I for one am enjoying this thread very much.

It will probably explode my computer now...

[seth]

Excellent content Wat!  Looks liek a great way to spend a holiday abroad. 

[cort16]

Interesting stuff. P1900. Never bloody heard of it! This may sound like a stupid question but is the Volvo museum ran by Volvo? It looks a bit run down given it's a manufacturer showcasing their history.

It's about a million miles away from that super duper BMW museum in Germany.

[Sigmund Fraud]

That's some proper CONTENT there, sir ! Thanks for sharing, really hope there's more on the way !

[Junkman]

More useless information regarding the GM Futurliners (sic):

 

http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2013/07/03/so-which-futurliner-is-which-an-initial-effort-toward-a-futurliner-registry/

 

Strictly only for those who are interested.

[Pete-M]

and it's shat the first page of photos.

"IMGUR - The image you requested does not exist or is no longer available".