Classic Car Week 2005.

Rättvik, Sweden


A four door Bel Air HT of 1957 vintage was sitting in the parking lot...


...just like this nice Buick. You could see a lot of nice cars parked not far from the action.


One nice rear, a 1965 Impala coupe....


..sitting next to vary nice Malibu Coupe. It is nice to see the classic iron form the sixties gets more and more attention.




More and more people are putting a show to make a sort of a mini scheme to their cars. Like these "business men or traveling salesmen" from the forties. Nice toutch!


 One of the nicest models from the fifties, the first model of the Impala as coupe, It is a 1957 model and lookin pretty in sporty red and some mild custom.


One of the nicest paint jobs, a mid fifties Merc in green and a bit darker shaded green flame job. One of my faves, It seems that the older I get, I like flames, interesting...


I guess ti has taken a while before the low riders got to Sweden. But as this very low 1959 Coupe, they look good and does magic with the rather beefy looking car.




Once again white is just about right color for a T-bird, this time a 1956 model. The red interiour is a very nice touch


 Another Merc from the mid fifties, this time without a flame job..


 I really thought some 15 years ago that the trend of Cal Lookers would be popular. That is a pity as much of VW did in the sixties and seventies has lot of personality and suits more than perfected to be tricked out.


A fully loaded and incredible finish on this 56 Ford Fairlaine in tasteful color combination!


In venom green, this car really will catch your eye. Saying a lot "Don't come around messin' with me!"


 Another visitor from the previous years and still unigue, a Nash Metropolitan.


Not long ago dismissed as Pizza races, the seventies models of Firebirds and Camaros are gaining in popularity, why not like this one has just everything you need for an muscle car, including the looks.


I guess this Mustang fast back needed a break, while the gentleman was aiming on getting his signature right.


Another proof that the Maco Shark inspired generation of 'Vettes looks mighty good at every angle!




....And the american sports car is still carring the torch. Still if you can call a car sexy, a sexy car!.


 The combination of muscle cars and rag tops are still popular, once considered as "introduction" to american car hobby, now these cars have become as pristine condition as the once more sought after cars.


I am among those who appretiate more and mor the Chrystler corporations offerings in the mid and late fifties, I love the black and white on this car.


Oh no, I am not to think less about *vettes like this beauty.


A first generation Mustang fastback in gold metallic looks really sweet in the sun fall.


 Like this rather unusual Hudson.


 Tghough sun is setting there no sign of the cruise to dry up, I guess if you are sitting in a 1960 Impala open top you are not to worry about trivialities of like 8 hours of sleep, or wondering about all that sand in your eyes too early tomorrow morning, no let the goo times roll and never mind tomorrow.


These are more or less considered as the kings of the night by many spectators and even car buffs, a red open top Caddie of the 1959 vintage...


 ..well, not close behind is this the 1955 Thunderbird also with the top down on this rather late import.


Not a great shot but the night was closing in, and a car that are among my personal favorites, I really like the way the early seventies Camaros turned out, like a sleek but powerful if not Ferrari inspired, at from least of the Italian made throughbreads blends in to this muscle car.


The early proof of the industrial wonder of post war Germany. OK the car looks exactly like it idid in pre war days but inmagine the fact only a few years before this car ran out from the assembly line, the factories was just burned out walls and twisted metals. Only a decade or two the three pointed star on the radiator is considered to be one of the best quality cars on market, and still holds that position! By the way it is Early fifties Mercedes Benz 170.






Now boys and girls, in my opinion the star of the night! A late forties Chevy Fleetside. This is the stuff dreams are made of! Look how tasteful this treament is, the twin flames and those wired wheels and the low sitting car. This is in one word... incredible!


Though it was a wrm evening and sun and a plenty of jammed streets. There were only a few cars that needed a bit of rest to recover from getting grazy from the heat. This Olds shows the sleek lines of its generation of the mid sixties oftenly over looked by the more extravigant breathens from the fifties.


 These cars were pretty common in my childhood, I even had a class mate whose father had one in red and white and he was ever cursing about all the misery the car brough him. Strange enough he bought another one and cursed even more. This Hillman Minx seem to escaped from the scrapper or being neclected in the woods. As usual with britt cars from this era, alots of old english charm combined some extra crome inspired by former allies overseas.


This 1958 Buick in white looks like a lot like a noble lady at rather respectable age as she rolls on th street.


 Followed by a sister in different paint, what a difference paint really does. This coupe looks more like sports care than the lady in the previous pic.


More sleek cars from the fifties a black T-bird from 1956. Oh, so sweet!


This Ford ´55 Fairline is looking a lot like most of the cars did in the seventies when the street racing via bracket racing started to catch on.




In sventies Volvo was buildiing safe anddependable cars that unfortunally looked too boxy. But one of the real beauties was this P1800ES which in its last years became a hatch back. To redraw the classic coupe driven by Mr Simon Templer acted by Roger Moore before he came Agent 007, was bound to look horrible but as the results show it did really work out quite nicely. One of the cars I looked at with a desire to have one day at my drive way.


There was not many cars form the fories around, and these soft rods as this Phord 1956 was rather unigue, but nice change to rest your eyes at.


Italian car designs are allways highly regarded and this very unusual Fiat shows that though that in the naighbour hood of forty years since it was driven by a someone from the dealer it does look like something to cruise down a long the meditranian shores on the way to Monte Carlo. A Cinzano my dear?




For me this is like a car I saw in a TV show which I can't recall the name of. The plot is like this a FBI officers family is killed by a former convict who is naturally a member of the maffia, and during the episodes, the agent tries to nail him, while the villain is climing up in the hieraki and becomes a boss. On the final episode our hero has tracked the killer to lonesome spot on a desert for the final shake down. The outcome is pretty clear, you can not escape from the law, satisfied, and wellexecuted job later he rolls of in one of these black coupes towards L.A.!


 Now, if you guys really thought that I would resist taking and adding a pic of a red Corvette in the rear angle I must prove ya wrong. They are sexy, in any angle you look at them. Old love nver rust they say, must be words from a Crvette owner...

One of the prize winning cars was this incredible and absolutely fully loaded 1955 Ford convertible in two tone blue.


One of th trends are those bullet hole decals like this 1955 tywo door Chevy 1955 sedan, from my neighbourhoods. Now it seem to have more relaxed days, few years before it was oone of the fastest street fighters in my area.


One car that was a price winner was this Chevy decked out as a street patrol vehicle with a JAIL trailer behind with bars and looking as not that fun way to be transported in. Those bullet hole decals adds really much of charm to this humouriouly decked out rig.


 ... one of the ways to avoid being jailed is having a highly regard atourney, who may aswell drive the most elegant cars from post war. A hand built Rolls Royce Phantom V. The RR.s top of the line cars in many years. If you have ridden in these, nothing gets close of sence in once becoming noble... snob. I did once and I felt noble after 5 minutes..."James, let's take te road by the Ritz, shall we!".


Street cars comes in many versions, one of the unlikely is a Saab V4 from the sixites. But look again it looks like this little beast is more than meets the eye, it is or remodeled as one of the factory built Rally cars that was major contender in many years during the sixties to the end of the production in the seventies. Carefully rebuilt with increible detail it really shows that size does not really matter.


 While I was shooting the Saab V4 seen above this lot of people came and obscured the only agle available to take a image, so there for this line of butts to be displayed to everyone on the Internet.


Who can resist to take photo of this two corvettes, that is 1958 in left and 1962 to the right, both amaizing looking in red


 In August the nights does become dark in Dalecarlia, but with a bit of flash and some light from the street lights a pic of this ´29 Ford model A Tudor, that had been hiding from my camera for most of the night..
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