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Long distance, Best in Show
Edmond Wip and his girlfriend Antoinette are on a great roadtrip with thier 71 Longhorn truck. They have traveled 1600 kilometers (almost 1000 miles) one way just to get here. The Netherlands to Sweden.
At the CCW event ( http://www.classiccarweek.com/ ) sorry no English version of that site, they got the Long distance award. They are so much worth that I think. They got some free gasoline checks from a Swedish gasstation which they can not use because thier truck is LPG converted. Well, they will use the gasoline checks (good for 5 years) another year when they take thier Camaro over here. And I was very happy to win the first price in the class for "commercial vehicles" which the pickups were placed in. I also won the "Best in Show", I was really surpriced and happy over that. It is really a big thing over here. Here's some pic's, there are more picīs to come from Edmond I guess.
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Mats.. ---------------------------------------------------- 1971 Cheyenne Super Custom Camper 475CBB/TH400/AC 1992 Silverado Sport Truck 1988 Silverado 2500 Ext Longbed 4x4 2001 GMC Sierra SLT 4x4 1990 Chevrolet K3500 1965 Pontiac Grand Prix 1980 Z 28 350/4-speed/AC/T-top 1980 Camaro Coupe V6/3-speed 1979 Buick Century Wagon Last edited by 68 50th; 08-03-2009 at 05:00 PM. |
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Re: Long distance, Best in Show
Congratulations to you both!! That is really cool. Great trucks are cool where ever they are.
Bill.
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Re: Long distance, Best in Show
I used to work with a Swedish guy from Sweden and man do they love cars, trucks, bikes, anything with wheels over there.
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Mats.. ---------------------------------------------------- 1971 Cheyenne Super Custom Camper 475CBB/TH400/AC 1992 Silverado Sport Truck 1988 Silverado 2500 Ext Longbed 4x4 2001 GMC Sierra SLT 4x4 1990 Chevrolet K3500 1965 Pontiac Grand Prix 1980 Z 28 350/4-speed/AC/T-top 1980 Camaro Coupe V6/3-speed 1979 Buick Century Wagon |
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![]() ![]() ![]() I love both the trucks but particularly the yellow and white one. Can't quite tell...which is the longhorn? Which one is yours 68 50th? Edit: Upon further inspection I think I can see for sure now that the yellow and white one is definitly not a Longhorn. Congrats on best of show...that color combo is my favorite and the one that got me hooked on these trucks.
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I'm with you, I saw a yellow/white truck of these years on a US trip back in 98 or so. Since that day I got that "must have one" feeling. Thanks for the congrats.
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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Re: Long distance, Best in Show
even overseas, board members love meeting board members!
I've wondered where he has been hiding... I don't recall seeing him log on here much over the last few years. Good to see he (they) are doing well and having fun in there classics. |
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Re: Long distance, Best in Show
The wife and I were in Stockholm (Gamla Stan to be specific) for a few days last year. We saw a few classic trucks, an old Caddy, and a few others while out walking around the town. Most were well kept up.
In contrast, we spent a week in Denmark prior to this and saw NO classic cars of any kind! Not one! Everything was very small, inexpensive "basic transportation" type vehicles. I kept thinking that if we drove HALF the number of small cars that they do, our gas prices would have to drop by about a buck a gallon! |
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Re: Long distance, Best in Show
Great pics. Thanks.
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Re: Long distance, Best in Show
Hereīs some additional pics I got from Edmond today, he is not gonna be online until this weekend.
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Re: Long distance, Best in Show
Thank you for posting the pictures Mats!!
Yes I have Internet now, found a Mcdonald with a free hot-spot connection. I just wanted to read this thread ![]() It's been a challenge to get here on only LPG but we did it! ![]() LPG is not widely available in Sweden so the trip has to be carefully planned ![]() They have about 10 stations were you can buy LPG in th whole of Sweden. I've been lurking around the site almost weekly Longhornman, but not much active posting. I will post some pictures when we get home later in the week. Cya, Edmond & Antoinette
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Re: Long distance, Best in Show
Congratulations!!! I`d like to see those trucks at a show here.I`d rather be able to travel there,though.I know it takes a great efoirt to accomplish what you guys do with these trucks over there.
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Re: Long distance, Best in Show
Congrats!!!
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Just a few pictures taken during the Classic Car Week.
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Re: Long distance, Best in Show
send more we dont get to see unique pictures like that of foreign vehicles much.
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Re: Long distance, Best in Show
That Futurliner is cool. I am going to make it a point to go to one of the shows of it this year.
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For a mere $600,000.00 you can own your own
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Beauty realy is in the eye of he beholder...cause I think the Futurliner is a thing of beauty.
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Re: Long distance, Best in Show
Hey Edmond,
Congratulations to you and Antoinette. Great photos too. Must have been quite a drive! By my reakoning, just over 30l/100k or nearly 9.5mpg. Woohoo. Got my LPG tanks in, just need to finish the rest of my truck! Have a good one. Bill.
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Re: Long distance, Best in Show
mmmmm Sweden. So, where's the Swedish chicks? Nice trucks BTW.
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Yes Bill it was a great trip. I have two tanks in the trruck, one with 180 liters, and one with 116 liters. Next thing I'm going to change is the 300A mixer. I now have a new throttleplate and a IMPCO 425 mixer. So all the gasoline stuff is coming off. Should give some better milage also ![]() Cya, Edmond
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Re: Long distance, Best in Show
On that GM Futureliner, I would sure like to see how they did the steering linkage. Boy, is that thing OOGLY!
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Re: Long distance, Best in Show
Nice pics Edmond. It sure gonna be something to see when the Futureliner is restored. It is the same guys that own and restored this Chevrolet COE tank-truck.
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Re: Long distance, Best in Show
Yes I hope to see that Futurliner restored completely someday.
Some Road trip facts of our Holiday: Total driven distance: 3750 km Total used fuel (LPG): 1131 liter ![]() Cya, Edmond
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