A country home that hasn’t been poisoned from modern societies spoils. TV and radio are off and life is brought to you in one simple channel. Sounds of birds chirping, the horses creeping through the meadows fill your ears will music. Your eyes fixed upon the Swedish landscape, yet peaceful and lovely theres only one distraction to this perfect utopia. Distributed by the sounds of a garage door opening I casted aside my tree hugger moment, and was lost again by a different elegance.
A rodded out P1800, 68 camaro, and a 70’s challenger fill in the seen. Every Swedish
mans fantasy, and with the cherry on top being his 58 Impala barn find.
“The car came on a transport truck, other than no brakes and the motor turning over slowly it was the most complete and untouched car I’ve ever owned”.
Playing it safe he takes out the 348ci. With a light hone, rings, and bearings the bigblock was fresh and ready. Backing up the bigblock was a tired powerglide, with a little TLC and new gaskets the 348 and trans were mated up and put back to work in the Chevy.
As Thomas and his computer savvy friend wishing the fix would have been as easily as rebooting a harddrive and having all your problems solved. But it’s never that easy when it comes to cars. With a clean and adjustment to fuel and air mixture. Chevy’s first bigblock sings to life. With brakes installed, fluids changed, the 58 peaked its long forgotten body into daylight. Thomas smiles, but then soon runs into another dilemma.
The sons are on he same track. Newly renovated house and the car is next in line.
“The windshield wipers were electric on this model, this was Chevy’s first year switching over from a vacum assisted set up”. Looking back in his experienced mind he asses the problem. With an ocomplished grin, “Working on old cars is interesting”.