This is the story about three swedes and a buy on ebay

It all started with My friend D that thougt i had a car that was all too new. Here in sweden a car from before 1950 dont have to pass the inspection every year . So my car needed to be sold. An add in every possible magasine and internet was needed .The market seemd to bee dead for this kind of car. But one day i got a phone call from a guy who said that i had what he was looking for. So the car was sold and the chase for somehing from the 40this was on it´s way.
First time i saw the 46 was here on HAMB, it was my friend D who had looked at it for some time but it was a bit to pricy for me.So i was looking every were for another car. There was nothing i wanted here in Sweden so i keept looking in the us . After a couple of weeks i was looking at ebay , and guess.... there it was. Better price and my pick up was sold. Time to do same buissnes. Used the buy it now buttom and just bougt the car. Im was now the proud owner of a 46 chevy fleetline aero sedan. Ok.
Next thing on the list..
How to get it from St louis to Dickinson texas. Ther was some options. land transport. Pricy . no we desided to go there our self and drivi it down. I been to us one time before but that was for five days and i did´t realy see much of the country. But my friends D and E has done this stuff several times , so now started projekt 46 here in sweden. We were looking for cheep fly tickets so we could fly to St louis and home from Huoston. The internet is sooo lovely when it come to this kind of stuff, We found tickets and we started to make our plans about the trip. Which way willl we take? What do we want to see. So the map came on the table and the plans were done. We desided to see graceland We felt that we realy need to visit the KING. Then D and E had made some friend on their earlier trips so we wanted to meet them to.Well the plane left sweden the 20th of october and we arriwed in St louis In the break of dawn. There Dave the guy i bougt the car from pickt us up and took us to his home there we saw the car named Larry for the first time. It was love at first sight.
Will be continiud
(Sorry for the spelling)

 

some more pics of the pickup i sold to buy Larry

 

All I have to say is....it sounds as if you and your buddies gotta true love of the hobby to go to the lengths you have to go to stay in a hobby.....

Oh....and your english (written and spoken I'm sure) is much better than my Swedish....dont worry about it.

 

This was the first meet IRL for us with Larry. As i said before . there was love in the air.

 

Dave, the man that sold me Lary had some other nice cars for sala as well.
This is one of them

 

Thanks .

 

So after a quick introduktion to the car we said goodbye and set of to Memphis. In a car that we only had seen on pic´s!!! (Just how smart is that)

 

This is the begining of a jurney that i never will forget.
The first thing to do was to fill him up
I cant get the pics of some reson. i will try later

 

Is there somekind of limit for pics here???

 

new try

 

So on our way to memphis. This is why his name is Larry

 

We realise that we could not go all the way to Memphis this night. We had been on the way for 20 hours now and was realy tired. I learn that E could sleep anywere But a hotell was found and we could all sleep good that night

 

It appears that you and your friends are riding in style. That is a gorgeous automobile. I am envious.

 

Thanks. Yes Larry is great. love him endlessly!!!

 

Reminds me of my younger days traveling the United States for 30 years to buy a neat vintage car, old Coke machine, Wurlitzer juke box or vintage racing snowmobile. Those were some of the best times of my life. I wish I was still able to walk well enough to continue doing the same thing but those days are gone. Congratulations on your find and your fun visit to the USA. Nice car...............Take care,Mike

 

A great morning. Menphis next. passing Mississipi .Menphis here we come

 

Ok we are in memphis. what do you do in memphis.We followed the trail of tourists and ended upp at sun studios. Yes we took the tour inside. It was hot as hell and a cold beer when we come out of there was not the wrong way to go

 

missed this one

 

"Larry" looks like a very nice ride.Have fun Guys !!!! Tom (Tired Old Man)

 

I do it that way.......but I am dumb.


I have a soft spot for 46's.....Good choice!

What are the specs? Drivetrain and all that jazz.

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You guys are living the dream. Open roads and high adventure. Congrats on your new ride and enjoy your time here in the states

 

This is the kind of adventure that makes this hobby so great.

 

Larry's a lucky fellow you have you abbe. Hope you had a good time in the old usa road tripping.

 

Thanks i like them to. it´s a designs dream.
The drive train is a 283
th350
nova 67 rear end
runs nice i most say. not a racer but a smouth ride

 

Wow what a trip! Congrats man!

 

So now we have to find our way to Graceland. But how har can it be?
Well lets say like this. Memphis is a bit bigger than uppsala here in sweden!!
But some how we made it there. I thougt it would be bigger, but remenber this was in the 70th so i must say it was impressiv anyway, I had hoped that we could drive up to the house and take some pic´s with the car in front of the house but it was impossible to buy our way in . So we had to take the regular guided tour , to bad. The car would been beutyful infront of that house

 

more pic´s from graceland

 

sorry to be the one that tell you this. But the king is dead. according o this anyway. More pics

 

Ya, da great story!

:Anderson

 

Holy crap I've lived here for 50+ years and never been to Sun Studios or Graceland...you guys are livin' !!


.....love that '46, looks awesome from the rear 3/4 view....guy that works in the warehouse across the street from ours uses one for his daily.



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