The end of the season

The car is in storage now and I will probably spend more time with the blog, on forums etc.

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This is how it looks with the narrowed and lowered beam.
NARROWED: 30 mm, slimmed shock towers
LOWERED: unknown amount, 2 x SAW's, about 10 cm drop welded in

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The rear is going to be lowere about 20 mm next season.

Had some thoughts about slamming it totally, but

I'll do that with my fake split/59 instead. .

The Oval on the left belongs to another

member of "Der Schweinhaus Verein".

Finally

The transport company delivered it to my workplace June 2nd.

I drove it home to do some work on it.

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Here it is next to the daily driver, an Alfa Romeo 156.

The dashboard

The trip speedo was a nice bonus.

First post

This blog will cover my 57 Oval.

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It was originally sold in Skövde, Sweden, but ended up 1300 km further north in Övertorneå, where I found it. According to the papers the car was in traffic until April 1976. I don't know why it was taken out of traffic, but the owner had several cars to drive, among others a mid sixties Type 3 Variant.

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I bought it August 2007 and I will be on the road in May/June 2009. The car appears to be very good condition besides the paint [L324 "Polar Silver"] and some parts of the interior [54 Green]. The paint is really worn but it's going to remain that way. It's hard to beat a dulled out metallic paint where some primer and surface rust shines through. The pan and body apperas solid. No rust basicly, only a few small ones around the rolled fender edges.

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Didn't have the possibility to do anything with it in 2007 because it was stored too far away. During 2008 I got the original brakes to work and started the engine, mostly see how much work the car needs. Almost everything works, apart from the left brake light and the horn which should be easy to fix. The whole brake system will be replaced - don't like to gamble with a single circuit brake system that's been unused for more than 30 years.