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The Country Where The Love For Classic Detroit Cars Never Stops

August 04, 2014, 7:20 AM

Vegas Tenold visits Vasteras, Sweden, for Power Big Meet 2014, which organizers claim is the world's biggest classic car show.

As Tenold puts it in The New York Times, "It is hard to overstate how much the Swedes love old American cars. Swedish enthusiasts will happily boast that there is more classic Detroit iron in Sweden than in the United States. The Swedish fascination for Detroit slipped over into full-blown obsession a long time ago."

Pontiacs, Fords, Plymouths, Cadillacs, Chevrolets — pretty much every brand of car ever manufactured on American soil — bumper to bumper into the fading daylight. Most were pristine, with immaculate chrome and gleaming paint, but some were custom hot rods in candy colors, and a few were wrecks that looked as if they had just been pulled from the ocean floor.

All were headed to the Power Big Meet 2014, which the organizers say is the world’s largest classic-car gathering. This was the 30th anniversary of the meet in its current incarnation — first held in 1978 and moved here in 1984 — and as many as 15,000 vehicles were expected to fill the festival grounds. Disciples of Detroit engineering had driven from all over Europe to gawk at one another’s cars.


Read more:  The New York Times


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