[AT] Volvo/Mercedes + mostly OT rambling

Fri Feb 27 16:26:26 PST 2004

18 hours sound kind of short especially if thought of making it here 3-4 hours by car. Anyway you should really come here in the summer when it's at it's best. Hope you find som exciting tractors in Pomerania.

/Mattias

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Från: "Larry D. Goss" <rlgoss at evansville.net>
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Skickat: den 27 februari 2004 01:06
Ämne: RE: [AT] Volvo/Mercedes + mostly OT rambling

> Thanks, Mattias.  I found you on the map.  I think we're going to cancel
> out on Sweden.  The ferry to Nynashamn is 18 hours each way, so we would
> only get to spend around 18 hours in Sweden.  I guess I won't get to
> Sweden on this trip.  We'll probably tour around Pomerania looking for
> farm tractors instead.
> 
> Larry
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Mattias
> Kessén
> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 3:03 AM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] Volvo/Mercedes + mostly OT rambling
> 
> First of all the list is operating funny since I use two E-mail adresses
> (being real good at deleting) I can be somewhere use one system/adress
> travel an hour use the other and not yet got all the messages I've
> already read. For instance this original message I wrote arrived six
> hours later at work and seven at home.
>     Anyway Ringarum is between the both places if you look at a map
> ringarum is situated 30 km south of Norrköping or between Valdemarsvik
> and Söderköping we live ten km east of Ringarum. If you don't find it
> I'll send you some mappictures of list or go to
> http://www.lantmateriet.se/index_eng.htm
> 
> MVH
> 
> Mattias Kessén
> Ringarum Sweden
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> Från: "Larry D. Goss" <rlgoss at evansville.net>
> Till: "'Antique tractor email discussion group'"
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> Skickat: den 26 februari 2004 06:54
> Ämne: RE: [AT] Volvo/Mercedes + mostly OT rambling
> 
> 
> > Mattias -- Remind me once again, where is Ringarum?  I'm headed to
> > Poland for Easter again this year and we are thinking of taking the
> > ferry to Sweden for Easter weekend.  Where are you relative to either
> > Stockholm or Karlskrona?  My son lives in Sopot, so we would be
> crossing
> > the Baltic from there.
> > 
> > Larry
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
> > [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Mattias
> > Kessén
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 5:55 PM
> > To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
> > Subject: [AT] Volvo/Mercedes + mostly OT rambling
> > 
> > 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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