Highlights on the Visit to Sweden, 2007

As VCOA members arrived in Stockholm on Saturday morning, they could immediately get into the VOLVO mood by attending a Swedish 140 Club car show.  The 140 Club, along with a local dealership, sponsored the show in south Stockholm.  The show had at least 50 Volvo cars of all model years, not just 140’s.  The dealership was most impressive, very large and even had a restaurant inside.
 
The first event we attended at the Volvo complex in Goteborg was test driving of at least 15 new cars on a special track.  This was like putting a five year old in a free candy store!  The VIP treatment Volvo gave VCOA members was outstanding.

After most of the VCOA members departed for home, Nancy and I went to Gävle, 100 miles north of Stockholm, our family home.  From there one day we went another 50 miles north to visit a farmer, Lars Erik Sall.  Lars Erik wanted to show us his old Volvo cars – and more. 

After arriving at his home, he drove us around to his assorted barns in his beautifully restored 1930 Volvo bus.  The first few barns had in them, in “mint condition”:  a  white 1965 1800, a 1932 original 864 sedan, a 1975 Corvette,  a GTO,  many 444, 544 and 122’s.  I was lucky to find NOS in a box an interior mirror for my 164, which I had been looking for and trying to order. We continued to visit and see more assorted cars and lots of parts, overall in six barns.  Lars has several “one of a kind” Volvo truck frames to rebuild.

Lars Erik Säll’s address is:    VIK5478,  821 BOLLÄS  SWEDEN

Art & Nancy Bjorkner