[AT] Volvo/Mercedes + mostly OT rambling

Mattias Kessén Mattias.kessen at telia.com
Wed Feb 25 15:54:48 PST 2004


Since I've understood that you guy's rarely see any Volvos I thought I got to show you this ugly beast (here it's called a bastard when you put things together like this). http://www2.blocket.se/view/2126312.htm?l=0&c=1&city=0
It has now got the engine from a Mercedes 220 diesel and it's autamatic transmission! The guy who sells says there some minor work left with the "hood". No kidding!
This is my contribution to cabin fever right now, the stepdaughter is a day patient at the hospital this week (nothing serious) and Magdalena is to pregnant to be there so I'm kind of cut off from the world. Kind of funny that after gone through a couple of hundred ATIS-messages find some complaints about that the list is slow ;-)
BTW ordered a digitalcamera tonight which i will have in a few days so hopefully that Fotki site will be updated with some better pictures. It will be real useful if I as I hope will be able to visit Fyllingarumsdagarna this summer, a show with a lot of tractors that is held every second year only fifteen miles from here. Last time I was unable and before that we didn't live here. The camera also will be handy for sending pic's to distant relatives when the twins arrive (at least I've told Magdalena so:-).
It's the swedish grey ferguson club that arrenges Fyllingarumsdagarna and they're also building a museum in Ringarum for the Ferguson they keep for Scania the number 2 which is the first serialmade since No 1 is a prototype and is still in the UK.
On the former topic off starting diesels, I know for sure that my David Brown would start (if parked in a slope) and operate without any wiring at all, both theoretical and in practice.

Time to stop rambling and go sleeping since this rambling didn't do it (at least not for me ;-)

Mattias Kessén
Ringarum 
Sweden





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