-I’m on a mission here, Rich wrote in one of his e-mails who made hundreds of calls and lead the case forwards, month by month.
One day Krantz received an e-mail. It was from Rich, the American Cowboy that was of the opinion that foolish Swedes shouldn’t be used by Americans because of their confiding nature. It read: “Which account would you like the money wired to.”
CHEERING!
– First and foremost we will share it all. Split down the middle. Without you, nothing so let’s split the money fair
and square, Krantz replied but Richie refused any kind of compensation.
– Keep it all until my return in a couple of years then, Krantz replied and added: “Or by the way, buy a car for me instead. That’s much more fun than money.”
Three months later he had a proposal:
– Would you like a Buick 1950 Coupe.
I gasped. A Buick 1950 Coupe is an awesome thing with a straight eight with a grill that is the reason for the Swedish expression “dollar grin”. The Buick had gone through an overhaul renovation in 1995 and had been on expo for a while afterwards but during the last years it had been worn down parked outside summer as well as winter. At this time it was just standing around, melting at a biker’s house.
Nervous pedant
Rich bought the car, brought it back to his house, thought it went uneven, pulled the eight cylinder head off, took down the tank, adjusting and fixing. Richie is a crazy pedant with a dream white 1959 Cadillac Biarittz amongst others. He’s nervous as well. He worried about all kinds of things. No spare tire, ten year old diagonals. A 6 volt electric system with fabric cables, torn radiator cable and brake on only one front wheel. He talked on and on about container shipping costs and transport insurance and..
Krantz plan is to have no plan
During this time Krantz celebrated his 50 years old back in Sweden and had a huge party with 300 guests where they all collected over 1500$ with one fun mission in mind: to bring home the Buick.
When Krantz showed up in Rich’s yard in USA 2007 in a newly purchased Cadillac 1970 convertible, shook hands, took a seat in the Buick and planned heading down to Manhattan without insurance with false plates and squared tires he shook his head.
-Crazy Swede. Lars plan is to have no plan, he said, smiled indulgent and ordered a car transport.