Me and Max spent the day getting the trailer to Sala Truck Service, they will help us lower and put on a new roof and do some other body repair on it, will be ready in a couple of weeks and then it’s time to get the lift gate, side door stairs to the level in place. This feels good!
A huge thanks to Jonnie Lindberg for letting us use the truck! 😀
I have been quiet for a while now but a lot have happened the last 8 weeks, the blue bus we once started to build on is now sold and gone and now we have bought a Gray Adams semi trailer instead! 😀 We have already started to work on the Chevelle and its over 3 months left of this year!? Yeah I know, really strange but it also feels really good, maybe for once some stuff will be done and ready in time…. Well, we got a lot to do this coming winter… Look at the pics below 😉
This will be really good when it’s ready! 🙂 But the most important thing to next year is just to make it safe, legal and ready to use on the road next season.
It’s a lot of room in it, two levels that are 13 long and 2.5 meters wide.
Awesome, thumbs up!
And this one is story for us now…. But I am glad that I found someone that bought it and will continue to build it and make it ready instead of just put it on a junk yard…. The funny thing is that it went back to Piteå were I bought it for 5 years ago! (But not to the same person)
This is a couple of weeks ago, the Chevelle is already in the winter sleeping spot! Impressive!! 😉
Engine out, parts controlled and sold!
Empty… 🙂
The drivers suit is already 5 years old!!… Time to send it and some other stuff to USA and get it recertified.
I will soon update you guys with more news and also what we have done on the trailer so far.
Stay tuned!
A little summary of our test season 2015.
Cool picture from Tierp Arena! Photo by Patrik PG Gineman www.pgphoto.se
Already last year when we were on our way back home from the Top Doorslammer finals at Malmö Raceway we decided that we will throw out the clutch and put in a converter instead, and also that we will only do three maybe four test races and not the whole Top Doorslammer Series during season 2015!
The reasons to that were too many races last year and I did already know that the updates I will do on the car during the winter will be pretty expensive! =) And after the test season the plan was to start work on something better to transport the car and ourselves in instead of borrowing, rent, change trailers and busses all the time, we must fix something that works for us and will make everything easier! (you get pretty tired of loading the bus for about a day before every race and also unload it after every race…!
Anyway, I am disappointed on this test year!…. So the last two weeks I have been thinking, thinking and thinking A LOT…. I know we said 3-4 test races in 2015!
BUT!!.. I am really disappointed with what we succeeded with during the test at Tierp in May with no track at all…. Just spun the tires!
The Race at Tierp in June was pretty good, I was really satisfied, we made some good rounds and did repeat between 4.10 to 4.29 and I wish we would stopped there….
The race at Sundsvall in July was not what I did hope for, a really tricky track, missing people in the team, and a lot of stupid problems with the car…
And because of all this I wanted to go to Norway and Gardermoen Raceway for the fifth race in our series to do some more test rounds just to see if we could get back in the window that we had when we were at Tierp Arena in June, and it was really close that we did go..!
But I did decide today that we will unfortunately not go!… Too much to do in the shop and all our employs are on vacation next week and someone needs to be on the floor making money!
Sorry to say that but after a lot of more thinking I decided that it is better to start working on season 2016 instead! The white bus Olga is already sold, the blue bus that I fought would be the coolest bus on the planet (if things would turned out in another way) is pretty much sold and will soon leave us and some new energy will make my dream come true! That makes me happy! =)
I have already bought something new to transport the Chevelle in so I think it’s better to spend the money on that (and of course some more updates on the Chevelle! 😉 ) instead and be ready for season 2016 in May when we are back and we will do the whole Top Doorslammer Series again (6 races) plus two test races before the season starts, just to be ready to fight for real on the first round in the series, YEAH BABY!!!! =)
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/Andreas.
I was at Friends Arena Sunday last week and did see AC/DC and the Rock Or Bust World Tour! Really great show!! =)
What an awesome little man 10 minute guitar solo by Angus Young, i felt that i needed to start film it after 5 minutes and he did continue for 5 more!! Yeah baby!!
Hope you also enjoy it!
Follow the link below to read, see pictures and the movie from TD round 3 at Sundsvall Raceway!
http://www.abmracing.se/pictures-movies/year-2015/2015-07-03-td-3-sundsvall-raceway/
Enjoy! =)
Simon Arvidsson have done it once again, he is just too good to be true!!! 😀
After a pretty shitty weekend at Sundsvall Raceway for us i must say that i was really impressed when i saw the latest movie that Simon made, no really good rounds but still an great movie! When we are at the track you almost cant see him, you never know where he are but he picks up the right details everywhere from the whole weekend anyway! You are the best a man can get Simon!! 😉 😉
Enjoy!! 🙂
Made a lot of changes to the car but it did not answer at all on it…. Spun the tires pretty much directly of the line again!… Right now I am fucking disappointed on this weekend, missed 2 rounds and it was too much for me to do trying to figure out what the car wanted…. We said before the season started that we will do 3 outings this year and this was number 3.
And like it feels right now I am not interested to do any more runs before a lot of stuff is organized better….
Congrats to Åke and whole team Eliasson! You did a great job!! 🙂
We are going out in about 1 hour against Åke Eliasson.
Time to warm her up!
Nice weather today again here at Sundsvall Raceway! 🙂
