Vacation. Shorts and dusty mosquito destroyers as we call the shoes. Stubble and dirty car. He and daughter Emi Olsson 15 in gliding flight with the Bonneville from 1962 and I begin to shoot. Mats objects. But shouldn’t we take this another time. It has been raining in the night and the car is…
– Dirty cars are the finest, I lie with the eye in the viewfinder.
I have the big shark in the boat and do not intend to release it back into the see, and believe that I will get the same push another day.
Emi is a very pleasant acquaintance. The girl is bright. She likes old Volvos and Corvette C6, knows about the old music, and is sharp looking. That’s how you lower a vinyl convertible. Fifteen years and knowing the drill. We open the hood and
precisely there, in the heat and the perfume of 20W-50 from the 389-gun Mats begins to tell: I am a mechanical engineer and has been a car tech in my entire life. I run a shop. Olsson’s Auto Repair in Östhammar and has always driven American cars.
Periodically, Mats has played full time but cars have always been there. The guy is a greaser! Many musicians take pictures on album covers with cool American cars but Mats has been swerving and riding in them in for a lifetime. Honest American iron that just goes and goes. Red Hot Max is for real.
When we toured in 83-89 we had a Suburban -68 V8. I bought it from the county detention center in Örebro, a prisoner transport with bars and wire lock. Red Hot Max pulled his double-stop licks in the evenings and tuned the Chevy for milage in the days. New dual-port Carter Carburetor was purchased, he turned up the ignition advantage and injected water into the air cleaner. Tip from star musician and mechanic who runs his own workshop. Forget those fancy battery shoes with the green knob. They ask only to fuss. This I have always done. A round rod on an M8: a long nut on the nergative. Old, proven, easy, safe.
The four barrel on the Bonneville from 1962, he has recently been handed over to The Carguys for complete renovation.
– Same price as for a new Edelbrock only better, he confirms and continues
Edelbrock is a general compromise that should work on most engines. Original Carter is custom