2000 mile trip

[Heo]

Washed, changed oil,lubed front suspension, thightened the wheel bearings and filled her up.
 Wife is packing, tomorrow we go for a 1000 mile oneway trip. Hope for warmer weather down
south

[winr1]

Congratulations an yalls move :-)



Ricky.

[Stangman]

A trip or are you moving. If it’s just a trip have fun let us know how you did.

[Heo]

Just a trip down to mother in law first stint 220 miles to morrow to my wifes hometown
up in the mountains where i stole/Rescued her from mouth breathers with unibrows
I send pics along the way if they dont caught me in an ambusch

[plovett]

I love long road trips!   Been awake for 55 hours before.  Smart?  No.   Mind altering?  Yes. 

[Bolted to Floor]

Hope y'all have safe and trouble free travels.

[cjshaker]

Just a trip down to mother in law first stint 220 miles to morrow to my wifes hometown
up in the mountains where i stole/Rescued her from mouth breathers with unibrows
I send pics along the way if they dont caught me in an ambusch

LMAO!!
Best of luck on your trip, Heo.

[428 GALAXIE]

Have a nice trip Heo.we had 4-5 inch snow last weekend so pack icechains with some sun protection to make sure your covered both ways.

[Heo]

Paul, Mind altering, yes when you see Bears ,mooses and cops running
across the road...together. Then you know you been awake to long
John, Thanks
Doug, Thanks
Mikko, Checked the weather, seems possible i have to drive through 5 inch snowfall
if i don't stay an extra day in wifes hometown. well with all her luggage i think
i have traction    But a risk they salt the road don't want to drive in that.

[Lenz]

Enjoy Heo.  I do agree on the road salt   Lots of experience here in PA with disintegrating cars.  Once you get the salt between the panel joints and into the welds it's almost impossible to stop the rust moths from destroying your ride.  Willing to bet that you don't have too many '64s in junk yards near you for parts either.- A safe and smooth trip to you and yours.

[WConley]

Heo -  You and your lovely lady have a safe trip!  Sounds like great fun and be careful of the mouth breathers.

Next time, have Jay send over a Trunk Monkey.  That'll take care of them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx6WB5YJia8

[Heo]

Lenz, thanks.  Yes we had no salt here until early 90s.
Just sanded roads with white berms  nice when driving after
dark, the cars ended up in junkyards because they where
worn out. Then came the salt, the rust just exploded on 10
year old cars that had nicks and scratches in the paintjob
Everything is a darkbrownish color same as the mooses and
reindears that get on the road to lick the salt.
So you don't see them because your headlights is cowered with the salt muck
But they salt for our safety they say

[Heo]

WConley, Thanks. So Jay sell trunk monkeys to?
Keeps them on  shelf B:5 between intake adapters
and valve covers? What a practical accessory
must order one

[Heo]

We are rolling



Getting close to the hometown. Stopped by a stream to let the dogs drink, and i could swear
i heard someone squeal like a pig across the stream ....better get moving again 


Arrived at the destination, Car run like clockwork. Now inside for some moose steak and a cold one



Four minutes of your life you never get back but it purrs nicely at 70 mph through mile after mile of booredom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHl_eyTkxLI

[Stangman]

Nice Heo it sounds very quiet inside. And cursing along at a pretty nice clip.

[machoneman]

Moose steak, eh Heo?

Bet it tastes like.....................chicken!

[Heo]

Stangman, If i get around to change the rubber seals,
around the vent windows i think it would be dead quiet inside
when the rest is so quiet you start to get annoyed by
small sounds
Bob,  Much like Beef but leaner and not that "Cow barn " taste.
But more wet pine forrest and sweaty horse taste, with a hint of rotten autum leafs
And......just like chicken

[machoneman]

Ooooh! Sweaty horse meat! What a treat........................

[Heo]

 

[Heo]

Arrived at final destinaton 5.30 this morning. Only issue during
the trip was that i had to stop and adjust the  hoodlatch. A real
rough section  of mountain road keept popping the hood open
And i forgott the laptop att friends place in wifes hometown so
i cant post pictures
When we left yesterday it was just abow freezin snow in the air
down here it is full summer. Here is a video i took around 3.00
This morning
https://youtu.be/ZzYC7DWAbFA

[cjshaker]

Arrived at final destinaton 5.30 this morning.

Final destination? HA, you still gotta go 1000 miles to get back home!   Glad the car is running good for you, Heo. Sounds like a good trip, minus the Deliverance scare..lol

[Heo]

Well you got a point there Doug 

[Stangman]

Sounds good Heo sitting there at 3 in the morning waking up the neighbors.

[Heo]

Well it somewhere along the road were i got some fresh air
And strethced the legs so the one i waked up is not MY neighbors

[Heo]

I payed a visit to Tobbemek today , was interestin. I left him a 3310 Holly to freshen up
And he played some with the vacuum pot on my distributor made result

[Royce]

Heo,  Mouth breathers and Unibrows?  Was your wife from Minnesota?

[WConley]

Heo,  Mouth breathers and Unibrows?  Was your wife from Minnesota?

Ha!! My wife's family is from there, along with a certain Forum owner.   

[67428GT500]

It's a "For"E? Golf clubs with you?

[Heo]

Heo,  Mouth breathers and Unibrows?  Was your wife from Minnesota?

No shes from Lappland but i guess its the same thing

[Heo]

It's a "For"E? Golf clubs with you?

Ahhhh final got it, no its so damned fast it keeps riping the D from the
trunk lid

[RustyCrankshaft]

Heo,  Mouth breathers and Unibrows?  Was your wife from Minnesota?

No shes from Lappland but i guess its the same thing

Isn't that where they do the reindeer racing?

If it is where do I put money down, I'm sure the FE will take the win no problem!

[CDXXVII]

Heo,

How far south? Falsterbo is nice.

[Heo]

Heo,  Mouth breathers and Unibrows?  Was your wife from Minnesota?

No shes from Lappland but i guess its the same thing

Isn't that where they do the reindeer racing?

If it is where do I put money down, I'm sure the FE will take the win no problem!

Yes they do. you can paypal me . Matter of fact my grandpa on mothers side
had a reindear he raced when i was a kid.

[Heo]

I was att Tobbemeks place the whole day yesterday.
He built a carb for me and we spent some time realy
fine tuning it. The result was realy good crisp throtle
response nice idle good drivability in trafic can idle in drive
forever and pulls like a freight train until
you realice  we are moving fast real fast  no peak no
flatspots just next gear and Continue to pull
Thanks Tobbe for a good carb and a realy nice and educational day

[RustyCrankshaft]

It's always nice when a plan comes together! Should make the drive home even more enjoyable than the drive down.

So that mean you are signing up for a spring race before you head out of town?!

[Heo]

Race? Nahhh not with 2,80 isch rear gear.....mayby flying mile then
Interesting to see what milage i get with the new carb and adjusted
Distributor vacuum pot. I think i can give it a few degrees more ign
but i save that for home i dont know what gas i get on the drive home

[cjshaker]

Glad things are going good on your trip, Heo.

Question, because I'm curious;did you take any tools with you at all? I'm wondering if Sweden uses SAE or Metric? I'm guessing Metric, which means standard tools would be difficult to come across if you needed them. Or is the Galaxie Metric, being an import? Never thought about this stuff before.

[Heo]

Yes i emptied the SAE side of my tool wall or what you call it in english in a
shopping basket plus screwdrivers hammers etc and a cordless 1/2” impact
tool if i get a flat tire. This day everything is metric but Volvo hold out with SAE
to 1974, and many things built up to the earls 70s. So you can still buy tools.
But they are more expensive ,
But i got my old Bahco tools. Only tool i needed along the road so far is 1/2” to adjust the
hoodlatch. There was no import versions in metric they were all SAE. I think it is
a better system than metric mayby beacuse im used to it but i like it better

[plovett]

There's been lots of times when I used a 9/16" instead of a 14 mm wrench, or a 13 mm instead of a half inch.  Not ideal, but if that is all you have..... Just have to be careful.

paulie

[plovett]

you can also shove a feeler gauge in, or even a towel, to help take up the extra space when you have the next larger metric or English size.  Obviously not ideal. 

paulie

[Heo]

And 16 for 5/8. And 19 for a 3/4 they are realy close

[plovett]

And 16 for 5/8. And 19 for a 3/4 they are realy close

Yes.  You do what you have to do.

[Heo]

Sometime a man got to do what a man got to do

[Heo]

Landlubberatsea payed a visit today with his nice 69 Torino with a rollercamed
445 since he live in the area. We spent the afternoon bs ing and cruising around

[RustyCrankshaft]

Starting to sound like FE Reunion Over-Seas Edition! Those FE Fords running around probably scared all the Volvo's into hiding.

[Heo]

Starting to sound like FE Reunion Over-Seas Edition! Those FE Fords running around probably scared all the Volvo's into hiding.

The streets got empty just the tumbleweed Rolling along mainstreet
Tomorrow i start my 1000 mile trip home diaphragm in fuelpump is sweating gas
I guess the etanol is eating it away i hope it stays together until im home. It developed a leak
Around the distributor and the  valvecovers just small leaks just anoying! A long trip like this realy
make you find what you need to fix. High beam,not that i realy need it at home in the summer
where it never gets dark. Smal leaks, Puting on my new rubberseals around the Doors and side Windows, the play in the stearing box, gas gauge, but thats it

[TomP]

Sounds like a great trip and you sure go through a lot of wilderness area!

[Heo]

At home now,left at midnight yesterday arrived home at midnight. The last hour i saw things
that was not there . I visited a friend in Uppsala on the way home that have a 46 Ford coupe
Custom ,Model A tudor and a 61 Olds 88 bubbletop. We visited o friend of him that have a 64
Galaxie with a 520 Kaase Boss 9, The Galaxie have been running fine used a lot of gas,a quarter
of oil. Total of about 2500 miles only work i had to do is adjusting the hoodlatch, Well..... swapped
the carb but that was my own choise, and two headlight bulbs.

[Heo]

Sounds like a great trip and you sure go through a lot of wilderness area!

Yes Tom it was a great trip. There is a lot of wildernes to drive through especialy if
you take the inland road. And the small amount people that lives there getting
less and less. I passed throught villages thats completly abandoned just a few
houses used as summer cabins. The south end of Sweden is beautyful with open
fields and mansions and castles pics commin as soon as i have rested a while

[RustyCrankshaft]

Adjusting a hood latch and a headlight bulb isn't too bad for that much of a road trip. Most of my stuff leaks more oil than that!

[Heo]

There was a sign. Area under camera surveilance no tresspassing, violators will be prosecuted.
So i could not help it i had to back in on the road an take a pic Road to some high end masion
and stud farm


On the road to Svaneholms Castle late at night to see if we could get a glimps of some of the ghosts




In front of the stables at Svaneholm. But no headless knight whith a red griffon on his shield on a black charger that wanted to chalenge me. I guess the bark of the mighty FE scared him into submission.   Im disapointed



Landlubberatsea here on the forum visited with his nice Torino and we had a fun day



On my way to Tobbemek on this forum to get a Dartvader conversion carb (internal Joke)



The wife at the Leopardroom at the countess store. this did not ended cheap



The Canola fields was in full blossom and there is a lot of them

[RustyCrankshaft]

Some cool spots along the way, made for some great pictures. And if they didn't want to park in the driveway and take pictures they would have put a gate up right, so it all seems fine to me (until the guard with the attack dogs and shotgun show up).

The headless knight is probably hiding with all the Volvo's you guys scared into hiding!

Few things are more expensive than trains, planes and automobiles.....except women. But they're both fun to play with so there is that.

Looks like it was a good trip.

[Heo]

Not what you expect to see at the gas station. A 54 Skylark 300 and some built
Never restored just got a cheap paintjob sometime in the past. And like the owner
said extremly expensive to restore,just going to maintain it so he dare to drive it



Realy like how the blue tone on the light at night makes the blue on the car
look. Would love to make a poster out of this pic.



Love those small vinding roads through small forests and over fields. would be fantastic to ride a motorcycle on them

[428 GALAXIE]

Well not a long trip coming but important duties for the old gal so she's all polished up.
Sorry for hijack Heo but had shear this,she doesn't get the attention that she deserves.

[Heo]

Mikko, I dont mind the highjacking. Looking good
Where in Finland do you live? Are you polishing for
going to Haparanda/ Tornio this weekend. Im in for
a coffe break from polishing up for Haparanda
http://www.classicmotormeet.se/

[cammerfe]

I caught the 'Deliverance' comments, but I went through the whole thread three times and can't find any banjo music !?!

KS

[machoneman]

Hey, I saw the reference to the stud farm and thought about all those cute Nordic girls and....ah heck!

[TomP]

I like that castle pic, the car looks Pagoda Green.
 Great pix and it looks like a great journey.
 That Swedish car show looks pretty good. The schedule looks better than most shows around here where the "power parkers" are in place at 6am and ready to leave before noon when most normal people show up to see.

[428 GALAXIE]

Heo I live in eastern Finland near Kuopio .
Right now near Lieksa preparing for the wedding.
On my bucket list is power meet but let see what summer I can drag my ass there.
That Haaparanta seems interesting too but I'm caught up here and for good reason.
Heo you live somewhere up north?

[Heo]

Mikko, I live in Kalix 50 kilometers west of Tornio along E4
Small world, i have a friend stoping by on sunday on his way
to visit relatives near Lieksa. Be careful with the Koskenkorva
on the wedding now

[RustyCrankshaft]

You ever see this truck Heo? Not an FE but it's definitely old American iron! Not sure exactly what part of Sweden the truck lives in now, but I've seen a couple videos clips of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1ec7ep7rJU

Supposedly that was the first American truck in Sweden. Don't know if it's true, but it's in really nice shape either way.

[Heo]

I have seen some older Kenworth with a confederat flag
a long time ago not sure if it was this one or if it was live
or in some magazine. Nice truck,i realy like it but defenitly not the first
American truck in Sweden, There have been American trucks
in Sweden as son as they started making them i will say
Ford,Chevy,Fargo, International,Mack, White,FWD, GMC,Diamond-T,
Brockway is the ones i personaly have seen
But after say 1950, when Volvo and Scania got the production realy
running, there were few if any heavy American trucks sold here
Ford,Chevy, International still sold some Medium trucks up untill the 60s

[RustyCrankshaft]

I thought that was a big odd about it being the first American truck there. I was almost positive I remember GM selling stuff there since pre-ware at least. Maybe they meant it was the first American big truck privately imported? Who knows. It's a nice truck either way. Not a lot of those even over here that are in nice shape anymore.

If you get one of those you won't have to worry about the plastic car driving retards hurting it in the parking lot anymore!

[Heo]

Pre war it was almost exclusively American cars in Sweden
Ford ,Chevy, Mo par, Had Assembly plants here for both
trucks and cars. Most trucks had Swedish made cabs
Volvo made very few cars each year. It was not before
the 444 they made any volumes to talk about. There was
a few German cars like Mercedes,Horch, Maybach and such
Funny thing i saw a price list over new cars in 1939,A V8 Ford
was much cheaper than a DKW For you who don't know what
a DKW is.... small 2 cyl two stroke body made of  wood and cloth
Make your choice wisely. A rolling tent or a real car with a V8 that
seat six, with steel body for less money? i know what i had chosen

[RustyCrankshaft]

But with the Ford you needed a real body guy to fix it, with the DKW you just need an old shirt and some glue and you're patched up and ready to roll!