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8 P1800 Magasinet nr 2 - 2018 9 P1800 Magasinet nr 2 - 2018 REPORTAGE REPORTAGE No wonder that it is included in packing lists for mountain hikers in summertime that hats, bags and long sleeves should be included in the backpack. The P1800 does not stand in the garage for so many years before changing to something else. Already in the spring of 1968, a car dealer, with the office on his pocket, is able to see the P1800 when his wife Siv is in Svärdsjö center to shop. It will take a few hours before you decide to turn on and sell the car. The car dealer seems very likely to have access to a P1800 and it turns out he has a customer in Hälsing- land who is looking for one. The car is sold privately and is offered as an in-service car, an Opel Admiral. - I had to borrow the "Admiral" and test drive over a weekend. It did not feel good, simply did not like it and declined that car, explains Leif. But there was a change in the end, after all, but until then I'll come back, first something about what happened to the P1800. It was sold to someone in Hälsingland and the presumptive customer was a youngster. One does not need to be a rocket scientist to understand that this young man was characterized by the TV series Helgonet, who had had Swedish television premiere June 1st, 1963. The young man, however, can not have the car for a long time before he crashes. Drive off the road and more or less tiresome "bouncing" him out of the car as it goes into the ditch. Toughly because he probably is able to handle his life, the car is on the road again where a car comes and wins knockout against the poor P1800. There is not even a refurbishment object left, but it's going to shrink. There is a foul continuation of this event, but we do not get it now, the whole is missing. Is there anyone in the club who has heard, read or know someone who knows something about this car accident to be signed to you. Leif himself has more to say, but there is still some puzzle piece, mostly what has been said in the newspaper about this car crash. Continuation will follow in any future issue of the newspaper. Affected by Steve McQueen? When Leif said no to the offer of an Opel Admiral, the "dealer" came up with a new offer. This meant that he now became the owner of a Ford Mustang instead, a 65th V8 engine and a 289-cubic engine (initially, the 260kubic engine was replaced in the first model year by slightly stronger at 289) with a 2-port gasifier that generated 190 hp. It was also possible to buy one with 4-port gasoline 210-225 hp. The latter was called Challenger. Leif was, in other words, the step before owning a Ford Mustang before the bullet bullet Bullit came, it had Swedish biopremiary first 19/12 1968 at Palladium in Stockholm. In that, the main character Steve McQueen drives around in a Ford Mustang GT 390, like police commissioner Frank Bullit, in one of the most classic car chases on film as he spins around San Francisco's steep slopes in search of vil- lains. The car yacht is often used as refe- rence in the filmworld. The car drove Steve McQueen himself, no stuntman here. The car in minutes in the film took place with reinforced cars to cope with the enormous stresses, not least the jump of the crowns. The Mustang was brand new, a real mus- cle car, launched at the World Exhibition in New York on April 17, 1964. Probably it got a real boost of the World Exhibition, and that it strongly appealed to its buyers. It became hugely popular from the be- ginning, after only four months, 100,000 copies had been sold. Record year 1966 was produced as many as 607,568 Mus- tangs. Then the popularity of the movie Bullit was diluted. The huge sales suc- cesses caused other car manufacturers to plagiarize Ford's concept, one of them is Chevrolet Camaro. Manufacturing took place at Ford Rouge Plant in Dearborn, outside of Detroit. I roll - first standard, then sports Constantly this concern in Leif's guts.The Mustang will not be so long in its ownership either. Even after a couple of years later, 1970, it is time to change again. First to a BMW 1602 followed by Volvo (Latin for "I roll"), initially three Volvo of standard model, one 145 followed by two 245s. It's only in the late part of the 80's that Leif gets up and sucks, again for the sports model, our own eye stone P1800. The reasons for this awakening are two, on the one hand, a cousin in Svärdsjö is holding a renova- tion of a P1800, partly nostalgic winds that blow him, that dawn is to be transformed to the present. "I could not only resist these two things that take hold of me," explains Leif. Just as if there is an explanation that you like the P1800, just watch the car, right? The first P1800 in the resumed interest in this gem, Leif got hold of in Gävle. It turned out to be a red 65 in a good condi- tion, the only thing that needed to be done on the car was a bit of everyday service like changing the filters and spark plugs in addition to rebuilding brakes to get it in good use. Then it continued by just the speed of the first half of the 90s with the purchase of more P1800 in extremely varied condition, to name one of them a white 66th purchase in 1993. There was a little more to do before Leif was satisfied. Among other things, he was able to grind and adjust both valves and toplocking. In addition to cars, spare parts were bought when he was around in markets, and it was not left before the space at home was too small. So be sure to have your grandfather and grandmother's farm in Lumsheden still in the family. There was a whole litter filled with all P1800s and spare parts. Most of the time, at the beginning of the 21st century, the carriage contained eleven cars, of which only five were driven. But for a few years, most of it has been sold, Leif realized that, with increasing age, he will never catch or hurry to renovate all the cars. So today, the P1800 park consists only of a white-haired P1800 from 1961 with chassis number 1436 purchased in Hässelby 1993. Many of the spare parts have also been sold. In only two markets, Leif sold 45,000. With Borg as a spectator But the car park is not empty for it. Dalarna is a veteran-established county, and this also applies to the people in Svärdsjö, in addition to the "utility car" and the white P1800, the vehicle park today consists of an Amazon 1967, the Volvo 480 ES 1981, the A-Ford 1930, the BMW Z3 2000 and a Honda 650 CB from 1981. In addition to a genuine car interest that resulted in an impressive possession of various car brands and models with just a handful mentioned here, focus should be on P1800 in our own club magazine, Leif has also had a real sporting interest in which he devoted himself to several dif- ferent sports. The main ones are still tennis, pingis, ice hockey, bandy and football in the order mentioned, at least how it looks like older ones. However, tennis has been playing since the age of 25 and is still going strong, in a ping-pong he meets a team of retirees once a week and they spend an hour about one hour. In tennis he has competed at veteran level and conquered twenty-one DM titles, the last DM title he took for veterans at the age of 68. "When I was young, it happened that I was training tennis against Helena Anliot in the gymnasium in Svärdsjö," says Leif. - There was only one person who looked at us when we played, and it was not anyone. It was Helena's boyfriend, himself Björn Borg, who stood by and watched us, Leif concludes with some pride in her voice. Time has its time, and just like the line in the circle it often connects to the starting point, that is, experiences and / or events from the childhood / adolescent years. "I long for the stones where children I played" as Heidenstam wrote it. For Leif's part, it consisted in the early ownership of the P1800 already in 1964, followed by a longer stay with other cars before returning to its beloved P1800 in the late 1980s. Let's say that the litter in Lumsheden today is empty and most of it is sold. But a P1800 keeps him, the white pearl from 1961 remains in the garage. Maybe it will be a jubilee trip this summer with wife Siv when he can celebrate his 79th birthday. Perhaps the trumpet, which he likes and often plays on since the youth years, is in the back seat so that he can let the tones from Gotland's Summer Night come out in some beautiful place. Can life be better? Text; PG Eklöf/6189 This white beauty is the only one that Leif has left, a white 61 bought in Hässelby 1993 and with chassis number 1436. This was one of the five drivers in the car park about eleven, after the "return", a white 66th with chassis number 20504 purchased 25/8 1993. Sold in the early 2000s when Leif started to empty his so well-laden barn . Nummer två av de bilar Leif ägt genom åren, en Mercedes-Benz 190 SL 1959, inköpt i Gävle februari 1962 för 13900 kronor. I inbyte: en VW 1300 som var Leifs allra första bil. SL:en hade säkert varit värd en del idag, samlarobjekt som den blivit. Men hur skulle man veta det 1964, då var den som vilken bruksbil som helst. Å andra sidan blev han ju nu ägare till en P1800. 190 SL introducerades för övrigt på bilsalongen i New York i februari 1954. OmSteve McQueen kan så kan jag! Klart man skall ha en Ford Mus- tang! Denna kom i Leifs ägo när han bytte in sin första P1800 1968. Mustangen byttes ut redan ett par år senare 1970, då till en BMW 1602. That's how it all started. Leif, along with mom, is standing on screen for a truck of unknown model (Volvo?) In the early 40's on the grain farm to the parents' home in Lumsheden, some houses from grandpa and grandmot- her. The man who lived there was driving a ride.► ▲ Leif together with his son Joakim in the mid 60's with his very first P1800, a grap- hite gray model 1963 purchased on spring 1964.