These events aren’t always that well attended, the big problem is that Norway is such a very long country, it takes absolutely hours to get anywhere as there just aren’t any motorways outside of the major cities and there aren’t even many of those. Add to that the fact that the population is less than 6 million and you realise there just isn’t the volume of vehicles in any one area to be able to attract anything more than 30 or so cars. On the plus side there are so many great driving roads with so few cars on, a day like today it can’t be beaten. Scenery, sun and winding roads.
A fantastic sunny day, the first real one of summer, gave the foundations for a good day. Sadly as neither of my real cars are roadworthy I bundled the family ‘pod into the Touran and set off for the hour or so drive to see what cars might turn up.
The shows here are often dominated by big American cars, this one was no different, not that that is necessarily a bad thing. Other interesting stuff does turn up though.
My two oldest girls liked this brace of 3000 Healeys best.
Another quirk of Norway is that even though it isn’t part of the EU they adopt many of their rules, although the car regulations aren’t as strict as some other European countries the rules regarding what can and can’t be done to a car can be quite restricting, that said it is still a very regionalised country, take your car to be examined at one inspection station, they will interpret the rules entirely different to one that could be 100kms away. So how this well known Granada is road legal here is still a mystery to many. Simply changing the width of your wheels or tyres from standard would normally be enough to get you into grief with the authorities.
How do you like the sound of a 715ci big block HEMI stuffed into a Granada?
The Ford rod is as popular here as anywhere else.
Corvette drag car. Not street legal unfortunately. Not really my kind of thing but interesting to see.
Nice notchback.
This 1958 Chevy on air was a crowd pleaser.
Americans knew how to design rear lights, I’ll give them that.
Next year I’m going to be there in either my Triumph or my Austin. Probably.
A fantastic sunny day, the first real one of summer, gave the foundations for a good day. Sadly as neither of my real cars are roadworthy I bundled the family ‘pod into the Touran and set off for the hour or so drive to see what cars might turn up.
The shows here are often dominated by big American cars, this one was no different, not that that is necessarily a bad thing. Other interesting stuff does turn up though.
My two oldest girls liked this brace of 3000 Healeys best.
Another quirk of Norway is that even though it isn’t part of the EU they adopt many of their rules, although the car regulations aren’t as strict as some other European countries the rules regarding what can and can’t be done to a car can be quite restricting, that said it is still a very regionalised country, take your car to be examined at one inspection station, they will interpret the rules entirely different to one that could be 100kms away. So how this well known Granada is road legal here is still a mystery to many. Simply changing the width of your wheels or tyres from standard would normally be enough to get you into grief with the authorities.
How do you like the sound of a 715ci big block HEMI stuffed into a Granada?
The Ford rod is as popular here as anywhere else.
Corvette drag car. Not street legal unfortunately. Not really my kind of thing but interesting to see.
Nice notchback.
This 1958 Chevy on air was a crowd pleaser.
Americans knew how to design rear lights, I’ll give them that.
Next year I’m going to be there in either my Triumph or my Austin. Probably.
