He played elite hockey for junior players in the team Ångermanland.
I lean back and enjoy watching the drill where he takes the car around town. He has become one with it during the lifelong ownership. Quietly I scribble down as he sums up: Today this is a mediocre renovation. Everything can be done better. We welded with dads gas welding. We were 15, 16 years old. Now the car has been in service for 33 years.
Some years it’s been 60 miles, others 3000 miles. I’ve had to replace a quarter panel. The interior is what it is, but we did what we
could in 1981.
It’s been like this and will remain so and it’s in harmony with the licence plate. I thank him for the ride and step out in 2014. Back home, I look at the pictures. The eyes fall on
the tag DUG. The translated message of the cut of northern Swedish way to address words is : “Good enoug’ “
Bonus material. Things that never fit in a paper mag. but Worldkustom has space! This would have been lost if published in a wooden magazine.
Anders “Billa” Billström pasting the first modern tax sticker on the new plates in 1981. The car is
resurrected. Summer of 1981. Last baggage in place prior to the vacation trip to Denmark.