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Posted 2022-12-11 11:12 AM (#626264)
Subject: Power Meet Lidköping, Sweden 2022



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Location: D-70199 Heslach		my american friends don't know much about sweden and most of them have never been there.

But in sweden the fwdlook population is very high.
Unfortunately most of the owners are not here in the forum so I am posting some pictures from this years power meet Lidköping. Enjoy!























































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































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ToMopar
Posted 2022-12-11 11:15 AM (#626265 - in reply to #626264)
Subject: Re: Power Meet Lidköping, Sweden 2022



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wizard
Posted 2022-12-11 12:23 PM (#626267 - in reply to #626264)
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Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island		The dull gray 60 Matador was owned by a friend of mine earlier. Note the lenght of the fins, starting on the rear door. Anyone here knows the story about that Matador? I have only seen that on this particular car
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Posted 2022-12-11 1:23 PM (#626269 - in reply to #626267)
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wizard - 2022-12-11 9:23 AM
The dull gray 60 Matador was owned by a friend of mine earlier. Note the lenght of the fins, starting on the rear door. Anyone here knows the story about that Matador? I have only seen that on this particular car


This:



Doesn't seem normal for a wagon. Sedan or 2dr hardtop yes. Wagons, no ?




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wizard
Posted 2022-12-11 2:09 PM (#626271 - in reply to #626264)
Subject: Re: Power Meet Lidköping, Sweden 2022



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Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island		Yes, thanks Dave.
The fins on that 4 d sedan wagon is really what all of the Dodges should have.
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Posted 2022-12-11 3:14 PM (#626274 - in reply to #626264)
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Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island		So what we see is the fins of a 2 dht on a 4 ds. No evidens of any modifications in the doors or rear fenders??????
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Posted 2022-12-11 8:07 PM (#626283 - in reply to #626264)
Subject: Re: Power Meet Lidköping, Sweden 2022



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Location: So. Cal		Having owned a couple of wagons myself, it's very common to replace damaged wagon doors with a door from a 4dr sedan. All you have to do is swap the upper door frame to get them to interchange on the rear doors. It makes it a lot easier to fix, not having to find a very rare wagon door. I suspect that's what has happened here, and he modified the quarter panel to make it match up with the sedan doors.
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Posted 2022-12-11 8:38 PM (#626285 - in reply to #626264)
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Posted 2022-12-11 9:05 PM (#626288 - in reply to #626264)
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Location: So. Cal		Thanks for posting the pictures Tom! I love seeing the Forest Green '57 New Yorker convertible, and all the rest.
I think the spring special horizontal bars on the trunk of the '58 New Yorker are placed too low and too close together.



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56D500boy
Posted 2022-12-11 9:21 PM (#626289 - in reply to #626288)
Subject: Re: Power Meet Lidköping, Sweden 2022



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Thanks for posting those photos. Great to see the hoard of FLs that are in Sweden (and I know that there are more).

BUT...

Can someone explain this Chrysler to me? Looks very much Dodge front end, like a Desoto Firesweep might have (??)

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Posted 2022-12-11 11:14 PM (#626295 - in reply to #626264)
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Location: So. Cal		American '58 Windsor, which was Dodge based with the shorter Dodge wheelbase. The Canadian '58 Windsor was really a full length American Saratoga with Windsor badges, so Canada didn't get this Dodge based car.
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Posted 2022-12-12 2:38 AM (#626299 - in reply to #626283)
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Powerflite - 2022-12-12 2:07 AM

Having owned a couple of wagons myself, it's very common to replace damaged wagon doors with a door from a 4dr sedan. All you have to do is swap the upper door frame to get them to interchange on the rear doors. It makes it a lot easier to fix, not having to find a very rare wagon door. I suspect that's what has happened here, and he modified the quarter panel to make it match up with the sedan doors.


The 4ds doors does not have the fins on them - look at the pictures Dave posted. The 4dht doors have shorter fins on the doors.
There's absolutely no signs that the car was ever modified.
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ToMopar
Posted 2022-12-12 3:44 AM (#626300 - in reply to #626288)
Subject: Re: Power Meet Lidköping, Sweden 2022



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Powerflite - 2022-12-12 2:05 AM

Thanks for posting the pictures Tom! I love seeing the Forest Green '57 New Yorker convertible, and all the rest.
I think the spring special horizontal bars on the trunk of the '58 New Yorker are placed too low and too close together.


Was a pleasure to post it. Because there were too many pictures, I didn't load them all individually on the page
The Forest Green '57 New Yorker Conv was the winner of 1955-63 Cabriolet class. Owner is from Torsby. And the contest has a VERY HIGH Claim
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Posted 2022-12-12 11:21 AM (#626307 - in reply to #626299)
Subject: Re: Power Meet Lidköping, Sweden 2022



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wizard - 2022-12-11 11:38 PM

The 4ds doors does not have the fins on them - look at the pictures Dave posted. The 4dht doors have shorter fins on the doors.
There's absolutely no signs that the car was ever modified.


There are plenty of doors he could have used that do have the fins on them. If you are suggesting that Chrysler made a one off stamping of the rear doors & quarter panel, you would need to back that up with lots of documentation because it's EXTREMELY unlikely they would create the dies to do that on ONE car. It might be plausible if this car had a pre-production IBM date. If so, show it. Otherwise, we must assume it is a well-executed creation, and nothing more.
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Posted 2022-12-12 11:50 AM (#626309 - in reply to #626264)
Subject: Re: Power Meet Lidköping, Sweden 2022



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I never thought I would see another in my color. Both '59s, wire wheels, wide WSW tires. Amazing!

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ToMopar
Posted 2023-02-17 2:15 PM (#627685 - in reply to #626264)
Subject: Re: Power Meet Lidköping, Sweden 2022



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Posted 2023-02-18 9:49 AM (#627693 - in reply to #626288)
Subject: Re: Power Meet Lidköping, Sweden 2022


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Powerflite - 2022-12-11 9:05 PM

I think the spring special horizontal bars on the trunk of the '58 New Yorker are placed too low and too close together.


Or are the bars still standing as they should?



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Posted 2023-02-18 11:59 AM (#627699 - in reply to #626264)
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Posted 2023-02-19 1:20 AM (#627707 - in reply to #626264)
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Posted 2023-02-19 2:12 AM (#627709 - in reply to #627693)
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Or are the bars still standing as they should?


Never trust a brochure. There are many examples of brochures showing things that didn't make it to production. However, it appears that there were differences in placement depending on which factory the car was made in. I am sure that my car was originally a spring special, and it's bars are placed in the original positions. The placement on mine agrees with Greg's verified spring special '58 Saratoga, and this white Saratoga sedan as well. But there is this mostly untouched Dart Line Windsor that has them placed lower, just like the car in Sweden. So I would conclude that both versions were used. This Dart Line has an "A" poly 318 in it, but it had to have been transplanted in there because a Canadian '58 Windsor is really a US Saratoga. We won't know which factories placed them lower unless we look into all the details of these cars.



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Posted 2023-02-19 3:12 AM (#627712 - in reply to #626264)
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Thanks Nathan.
Do you have some references for more pictures of those Spring Special cars?

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Posted 2023-02-19 8:41 AM (#627715 - in reply to #627699)
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hemidenis - 2023-02-18 4:59 PM

those shows had more FL cars than any day in Carlisle, what a shame for us and what fantastic achievement for them!


Denis, you are welcome to join us
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Posted 2023-07-19 1:01 PM (#630847 - in reply to #626264)
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ToMopar - 2022-12-11 11:12 AM

my american friends don't know much about sweden and most of them have never been there.

But in sweden the fwdlook population is very high.
Unfortunately most of the owners are not here in the forum so I am posting some pictures from this years power meet Lidköping. Enjoy!



Thanks for taking the time to upload so many pictures. Definitely a treat for the eyes. Is this an annual venue?
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