As long as they´re not on the road, today I couldn´t get to where the pictures are taken due to 3 feet of snow... Fredrik
Geezus.....hitting a moose would be like hitting a cement wall. Is rally racing fairly popular in Sweden? Or is it like NASCAR here where it has a following but you wouldn't exactly call it popular?
Dookie - Moose tastes brilliant if you let it hang long enough, can be a bit tough as a steak though. Ulrica makes exellent meatballs of it anyway. Not enough fat in it to be juicy, we also have wild pigs around, if you fancy hunting I´ll buy the bullets, pestamine! What they can do to a lawn in a few hours I couldn´t do with a earthblender... Bud - Not exactly a brick wall, but a suspended one... You clip the legs and the body goes straight into your windshield, I´d rather take the brick wall... On rallying, well its pretty big in some parts, like I guess NASCAR is bigger in the south of US. Roadracing is quite big, mainly cars but also bikes. Largest group of petrolheads is what we call "raggare", pepole very much into vintage american cars, some of witch are really good at resoring the cars. So good in fact that they tend to be sold back to america, when "57 Heaven" was sold at an auction a few months ago, the second highest price was attained for a 57 Desoto Adventurer Convertible, restored in a small garage in the south of Sweden about 15 years ago. A lot of muscle cars were imported to Sweden in the 70´s and 80´s before you guys realized how cool they are, therefore we have a lot, especially since there is only like 9 million of us. I met a guy this fall that used to own a 71 Cuda Convertible, matching numbers HEMI, they only made 9 of those... That was in the early 80´s and the car is now back in the US, worth more than my house! Fredrik
Back in the mid 90's I sold a few mopar project cars to some of those guys. They would ship containers full back to Sweden and Finland out of Baltimore. Some of the cars had the roofs cut off and later reattached to pack tighter. These guys were into the fined mopars of the late 50's. At the time, they were making more reproduction parts over there for these cars than we were. I know one car I sold, a 1961 Chrysler Newport convertible became a prize wining 1961 DeSoto convertible over there (a car never built by Chrysler) I was in Bergen Norway in the summer of 82 or 83 and remember passing a purple 70 Challenger crusing down the road...
Gotcha...sounds alot like our whitetail deer, only MUCH bigger animal. We do the same thing with mixing in pork for the fat content. Makes a hellofa good spaghetti. You buy the bullets and air fair, and I'm there!
Bucky440 - yeah, there are a few antrepreneurs over here, Torbjörn Andersson I belive his name is, is reproducing dashboards for Chryslers from the 50´s and 60´s, and making them really good so he has now started to export them to the US... I think the same guy is making all the rubber sealings (doors etc) for the same cars, he started making them in his own kitchen, lets hope he moved on or he is sure to stay single... Check www.autoline.se Fredrik:grin:
If you ever end up in my part of the world I´ll set you up on a pighunt, thats on 12 months a year, they even feed the little bastards so that the CEOs can go out hunting... And the males can get pretty big, I had to stop for one crossing the road in front of me and he was longer than the new Volvo V70 I was driving was wide, and when I stopped I realized that his back was higher than my hood. If you hit one of these you car will break, and he´ll just get agrivated... Fredrik
I´m no hunter but I think they use 12 guage slugs or 7.62 rifle if I´m not mistaken, but again, basically all I know about guns is that they make a lot of noice and that they hurt really bad if you´re at the wrong end... Fredrik:grin:
Bud, you'd rather hit the moose than the pig. Like speedy said, you'll get past the legs and the moose will come through the windshield. You'll still have brakes so you have a chance of stopping the car and if the door still works you might be able to get out before he gets you with his hooves (assuming he still has them -- lots of times they jump straight up just before impact). If you hit the pig you'll either get squashed by your engine or you won't have anything left under the car. You're going to crash abruptly. bottom line, if there is a pig chasing a moose across the road in front of you, hit the moose.
