Sixties. Do you remember the doll that could blink? The author had a similar one. Liquid crystals were space technology in the early sixties. It hung there when they found the car in the woods. It was decided immediately that it would remain as it matched the body type.
In Karlstad they ended up by chance at the Pontiac Oakland Meet. There was two other 1956 cars from Norway. The three crews bailed out how ever on the serious and certainly well executed meeting and went to the lake to swim instead. Glorious youth.
The city name sticker were sold at the OK gas station in 1982, and they dared pasting it on the car. The greaser fights between cites back from the fifties and sixties in Sweden were over. One advantage of vinyl was that everyone
had something to do. -Hey you guys. What’s it go’na be? Michael Landon or Bobby Vinton?
Door insides still from the fifties, a belt of the child seat from the time it was needed, roof of the eighties and seventies speakers in tacky plastic with terrible sound. Please don’t touch anything Billström! These are golden memorys. Sold in Sweden would my old boss Magnus Karlsson at Bilsport Classic say. Truck owner, Knut Jönsson in Råneå became the first owner of 7/8 in 1956. The car was out of Norrland Motors in Lulea autumn of 1958 where the new owner became lumber meter Carl-Bertil Levin in Jokkmokk. On 5 March 1962 the car came to Norrland Motors again before Runehammar Branch in Gällivare bought on 22 March. April 17 became Knut Emmoth, Gällivare owner and May 23, 1962, he sold to Lennart Moller, Gällivare who took it to Härnösand and used it until 1966, a total for the
car…only ten years. The Canada cars were not as fine looked upon as the US-built cars, but even here there were distinctions. Laurentian was luxurious. Pathfinder was cheaper. Today we appreciate Pontiac’s Canadian twist and also they were made in smaller series making them rare. What fifteen year old ashore a six-year renovation? Anders Billström also kept his promise and showed it to Lennart. His wife, who drove into the post, did not recognize the car.
-It was a black car, she said.
-It was a black car, she said. The door inside survived several years of rain in the forest with shattered glass. “The first wash” rote the 15 year old in his album back in 1975. Anders Billström from Harnosand dragged home, at the age of fifteen, a wreck from the forest. The young gun kept focused during six long years of restoring and still has the car. This year, 2015 they celebrate 40 years together.