Refreshed the Amazon for the last 50 years in the garage

The car turned fifty years old in a week, if you count the first time as of the date of birth. There are more and more Crashes from the last one year, model year 1970 to, of course. 1.576 copies are retained in the registration office of the 3.600 of which were sold new in Sweden, but only 421 were in service until just recently, when the BDO 523, a tvådörrars then the model with the Volvo, to the classic B20 engine and a 90-fed horse power was going through the survey after a few months of tweaking, and the enemies. Now, therefore, 422 pieces are in place.

the instigators of this bilkulturella the revival of name Lasse Swärd. He has been in the last few decades has been one of the ROTOR Motors, the legendary editor. Just before he went into well-earned retirement, he asked if anyone would be interested in his garagegrannes Amazon. I got to direct, that as a newborn, to be hemskjutsad coming into my dad’s Amazon, apparently, has taken it’s toll. I really like the shapes and I like the fact that it is a piece of american industrial history, even when, as at the time of our first meeting, was covered in a thick layer of dust.

“It has been here, as well as indoor in a heated garage ever since I started to park my car here,” said Lasse.

“It has been like this since it was brand new,” said the owner, who wishes to remain anonymous.

“It will be right at home with me,” I said, and hit it. Despite the fact that it did not want to start, and I suspect that it might take a bit of time to get to it.

but it worked all around. It didn’t do the rear since the brake was on. They are, however, so much so that I am the second owner of this gem with the help of a good friend was able to tow it home. A thorough wash, a careful polishing, (also with the help of a friend), the replacement of all the rubber parts from the fuel hoses to the tires and wiper blades as well as a new fuel pump and gave life to the femtioåringen, which can now be described as in excellent original original condition”.

the rear brakes actually? Well, it took a while, but now they work, just like anything else. Including originalradion. The highlight? When the kids are, for once, was both surprised and impressed when I came to pick them up at the pre-school and in-school in the World! They did not believe that a car could be older than your father.

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