Summer is late a couple of weeks this year but now finally its here
so i gave the rowing boat a new coat of  pinetar,linsead oil,turpentine
and me and the wife had a picknick



It is beautiful down by the river at my moms place



same place one month ago



The other day me and the wife took a trip up the river



Kamlunge rapids



Bondersbyn



Lake Storlappträsk

In Sweden we have this old right that every free man is allowed to roam the land and stay for the night. So here and there it is built smal
"bbq"  places with tables and benches and some kind protection from the wind and rain. A group of guys from the closest village goes together
and build it. I suspect it is often to getaway from the wifes and to drink beer This is a such place upstreams the rapids



absolutly beautiful place with tabel/bences a fire ring a log shelter wit dry firewood and a even a  Boule court . And you hear the thunder from the rapids in the background

One year since dad died, I got a film from....A film maker wanted to do some kind of dokumentary about my dad around 1990. He filmed a lot
in the shop and around here and my first marriage. But at the party after church we had open bar and the camera man got so drunk so when
he filmed he turned the camera of and the other way around . Soon after, the filmaker died and the documentary never happened
 this is some sequences they have found and sent me a link
 
First its one of our staches in the forrest , then its dad with the tractor and some unknown people, our finnish spits Max
17 years old here, the 27 roadster and some motorcycles some event where my mothers plymouth coupe is filmed. she had it as a daily driver for
 about 10 years, then , its some sequence from the shop where im repairing a 59 Caddilac covertible, my first wedding with the 27 out of gas

It is said to be the 59 in this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMaE6toi4mk

 the owner had some ideas the it would make it more worth. it was incredibli rusted think i made half of the sheet
metal new in it

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XB7KIB_7AulcbVQ34x4r9PGJu5yEHyTS/view?fbclid=IwAR2DOIjbILhZpqpotQGLOJzBioSnv3D3uY83zejPyyCpgNEwwRe_cJmrwI4

We have been working on stepsons Fairlane lately
today we shorted the 8.8 Explorer rearend

Stripping it down and cleaning up tube that
get shorted



Head of yard security and manager of neigbourhoods wood sticks



Cut and rigged upp for welding

image upload

Welded


Heads back from headporter deburring them before paint

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQlBRKLWFeE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQCNoL6pWYQ

Today i have folowed Eero, a childhood friend to the grave. Brain tumor , he was given 3 months to live.
He fighted for 10 years, the last years was awful.
Airforce officer and helicopter pilot, tumor on the headset side as many helicopter pilots get according
to my Doctor friend.
Remember first time we met when we were 5, he hit me in the head with a Oxy/Acetylen torch.
I guess it was his Finnish way to say lets be friends
As kids we had a lot of fun and sometimes we barely survived the fun like the time we took a full
package of blackpowder of his father and.....
And all the mailboxex we blew up with firecrackers, bought or homebrewed
He was the first one i saw live with a pair of Cowboy boots we was 9 or 10 i sooo wanted a pair myself
Figure that, two  9 year old punkass kids running around in cowboyboots and uggly 70s clothes.
We thoght we was cool. But we probably  looked like idiots

Matces was a problem to get, but we found out this old wierd guy Sven. Who gave us matches and candy and soda
and wanted us to stay and hang out and ....nahhhh something in his behavior told us to leave as soon
as we got matches. Found out later he was a pedofile

Now at the dinner after the funeral i had an old guy on the other side of the table.We started to talk
then i recognised him same age as me . he used to hang out with us sometimes, then he became
a feared criminal/fighter went to jail we lost contact now he is an old tired man.

Me and Eero lost contact he joined the Airforce and moved away. Met him now and then when he was home
and we bump into each others in town. Or i met him at his brother tireshop and now he is gone...Thats life i guess

Nowadays i wisit more funerals than weddings whos next of the childhood friends ?

I have always been facinated by abandoned places.
today i found this.



Ex. Karl Bergdal Bil, in Korpilombolo
It was a big GM dealership, they had a Shell gas station and a tire shop to
Here it is in the 60s



Here is a Cafe`that was at one end of the building,




Everything abandoned like most of the villages and towns up there
since the logging got mecanised
My friend bought a 66 Galaxie here in 84-85 something. I have told
the story about that here,when we stoped the serial killer
in a Mercedes van with a dead cow in the back, and i borrowed
the serial killers knife to cut of
the nylonrope from the cow to use as a fanbelt

Have any of you guys put a FE in a 36 Ford?
or 35-40 as they are about the same