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Dag

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Hello and greetings from Sweden
Spotted this nice car in Åre, Sweden
Åre is the moast alpine region in Sweden and i have the luck to live close to it.
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OK, its my own car, a -71 3500, but i just wanted you all to know that the P6 works very well during winters to.
I´ts in almoast daily use the year around and the news this winter are the skiholder that i built and mouted on the boot rack.
It sure makes people turn their heads

Here are some more winter pics
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Dag

Is that a pre heater you have plugged in ?

What tyres do you have fitted ?, and how stable is the car on ice ?

Not sure I'd take mine out in the snow, got too used to the Saab's bum warmers !

John
 
In this region moast cars are fitted whith stud tyres because we have ice on the roads 3-4 months a year.
Some use studless tyres which are beeing better all the time, but they are not so good on ice.
Chains are not common.
The handling of the car ar off course a little bit special and i would not recomend it for novices.
The kick-down under a takeover(?) will keep you very alert :D

All cars around here have a mounted engine pre heater and a heater inside the car, so the car are always warm when im useing it.
I also have a garage to use for service and drying and so on.

I also have an P6 3500 -73 which is under restauration.
That car will be in original shape and used in summer only.
 
Metal?
I thougt they were made from rust :p

The snow in it self doesn´t matter but you take it in by your shoes so i have put in som special plastic carpet that is formed to keep the water and mud inside it(can´t explain it better at the moment), and wipe the water and mud up from there.

An other problem are that the space between the inner and outer wing under some conditions are filled whith ice and snow and makes a solid piece of ice that you only can can take away whith varm wather or put the car in to a varm garage.

I beleve that we have a little better conditions in this part of Sweden, because the roadkeepers are not allowed to spread salt on the roads, as they do in the south part of the country.
This region, the midwest part of Sweden, have the oldest cars in traffic partly because they doesnt rust so hard.

Off course we have to protect them but there ar no special trick, exept maybe that a leaking engine or gearbox makes a complement, if you can make them leak :;):
 
I like the combination of SII bonnet and SI grill. Is that a NADA grill with the majority black anodised and just the front faces polished?

Chris
 
Yes, i prefere the SI grille on. Its just a original from a -70 i have for spares.
The plastic grille are now in the spare-box(?)
I just painted it black on the top, and it realy makes a differense.
Take a look at this..
P6 winter
 
Hi again
Just wanted you to know that the car works well even when the temperature are over zero.
Pictures when we are out at work.
This is from a church that needed some restauration.
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This picture have a Liverpool-connection. It was built by a Swedish buissinesman in early 1900 in the west mountains and bougt in 1926 by the cotton-king Philip Remington as a hunt an fishing villa. He sold it sometime around 1950. Im going to help the new ovner to make it representative again.
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