ATTENTION SWEDES!!.Need info on this car and fella..

[Jeff Norwell]

I dont know his name,but his car was featured in the first go-around HOP-UP-(Before Mark Morton took over the reigns)
This fella was in a club called the"Prinsbo Outlaws"..the car is I believe.a 30-31 model a roaster..hemi-powered/deuce grill/custom insert/gold in color/running 6 97's on the hemi..ribbed firewall/WWW TIRES AND POLISHED FIVE SPOKES/a red crazy pleated interior(sorta like a 59-60 vette/lake pipes and duval type windshield......
Is this car still around?
anybody have decent pics?
It was featured in TRJ(#15)in an article by Bo Bertilsson
the open spread has a pic of the car second from the left..cant miss it

anybody help?

[Swedester]

car belongs to charles swordson,and I don´t think it´s been on the road for acouple of years,I have pic´s that I scanned that were taken at karlskoga in -92 or something,I´ll see if I can find the cd they´re on and post them,that car made me want a hemi for the first time!I´d give my right arm just for the valve covers on that thing!

[Swedester]

well, the cd that I burned all the pic´s on to doesn´t seem to work http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif,great,120 pic´s to hell!I´ll scan them again and post them during the weekend
/ Vince

[Jeff Norwell]

That car is gives me WOOD!!..any info or pics would be greatly app.
my scanner is junk..cant scan the few pics I have......what a killer roadster http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

[Jeff Norwell]

Thanks Vince.....I bet ALOT here would LOVE to see that fine roadster!!!!!!

[Jeff Norwell]

any other Vikings out there?
BTTT

[Jeff Norwell]

bttt

[NorwegianV8]

This ?

[RPW]

The car is built by and still owned by Charles Swordson from Falun in Sweden. Last times I saw the car it had changed appearance a bit, with a more regular 32 grille screen, other wheels & tires and some engine details. Though someone told me that it might be returning to the early version again...
It has not been shown in public for a few years and Charles is mostly seen driving around in his 60 El Camino, built with the same feeling for details. I did shot these photos for Lead News #6 back in the early 90´s, did scan them from the magazine (sorry for the poor printing quality back then). Though somewhere in my files I have a lot of shots of it...

[RPW]

[Mr 42]

You can give him call, or send a snail mail he is in the phonebook. www.eniro.se (http://www.eniro.se) under privatpersoner.

Charles Swordson
Telnr. +4623-770569
Sundet 1177, 791 95 FALUN
Sweden

Here is a couple of pics from Street rod Nats back in 1992.
I have some paper copies from Nats in gothenburg back in the ninties to.

[Mr 42]

Another one

[Jeff Norwell]

THATS IT!!!!!...FREAK'IN AWSESOME.....Does Charles speak english?.....my Swedish is a tad on the ruff side!!....Thanks Very much fellas!!!!that car is the perfect mix of hotrod and a touch of custom http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

[Jeff Norwell]

Anybody off hand know the tranny/rear end combo on that roadster?

[RPW]

Halibrand QC 3,05 and a Muncie M-20.
And he speaks English...

[Jeff Norwell]

Thanks RPW.

[RPW]

Here´s a photo of it with the updated wheels etc.

[Swedester]

I still haven´t got my thumb outta my ass to scan the pic´s I´ve got......

[Jaypee]

I visited Charles this summer after RF reunion in Sweden and he show me some of his treasures. Fantastic guy, lot`s of character and pure attitude to build some hellowa
rods&customs. Looking forward to meet him again.
Few pics as it is now.
1st http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v341/punkrodder/C%20S%20RDSTR/DSC00483.jpg

[Jaypee]

2nd http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v341/punkrodder/C%20S%20RDSTR/DSC00473.jpg

[Jaypee]

3rd http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v341/punkrodder/C%20S%20RDSTR/DSC00480.jpg

[Jaypee]

4th http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v341/punkrodder/C%20S%20RDSTR/DSC00476.jpg

[Jaypee]

5th http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v341/punkrodder/C%20S%20RDSTR/DSC00474.jpg

[Jaypee]

6th He told me that car is running again MAYBE next year. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v341/punkrodder/C%20S%20RDSTR/DSC00488.jpg

[Jaypee]

7th http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v341/punkrodder/C%20S%20RDSTR/DSC00481.jpg

[Jeff Norwell]

Many THANKS Jaypee...can ANYBODY IDENTIFY the hemi valve covers??.are they repoped today?
This roadster in its original form just gives me wood!!!!!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

[willowbilly3]

Except for color and wheel preference that is the absolute perfect roadster. I always wanted to see the seat divider done like an early vette but never thought there would be room. That feature just melds the outside of the car with the inside and is so totally cool. Now there is the AMBR as far as I am concerned.

[Tman]

WOW! That is a really neat roadster, thanks for sharing!

[chrisman]

Yep, this is one of my all time favorite swedish rods too. I saw it in bare metal at a cruise night in '92, the body work is just awesome. I never understood the change from Radirs to Halibrands and modern slicks, though.
If I'm not wrong, Charles took it over to the U.S. soon after it was finished for some road testin' and it all ended up as a story in "Wheels" magazine. Maybe someone else still has a copy of that issue, mine's gone http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif
Thanks for all the pix, fellas!

[Jeff Norwell]

I like the orig wheels as well..but in the first coupla pics..they aint radirs....sorta like a polished 5-spoke(kinda like a sts spoke from Stockton)....they look kinda like a supreme a bit.......I am not sure.

[Jaypee]

Pic of the wheels today. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v341/punkrodder/C%20S%20RDSTR/DSC00482.jpg

[Jaypee]

interior http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v341/punkrodder/C%20S%20RDSTR/DSC00487.jpg

[Jaypee]

more details http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v341/punkrodder/C%20S%20RDSTR/DSC00491.jpg

[RocketDaemon]

your totally right they are note radir
they are a swedish brand called SP i belive


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I like the orig wheels as well..but in the first coupla pics..they aint radirs....sorta like a polished 5-spoke(kinda like a sts spoke from Stockton)....they look kinda like a supreme a bit.......I am not sure.

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[Jeff Norwell]

Psychodaemon/.is there a web site or any info on them wheels from your parts?

[RocketDaemon]

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Psychodaemon/.is there a web site or any info on them wheels from your parts?

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i belive those wheels are made ages ago and not easy at all to get anymore
btw they are called jp not sp,
my misstake i rememberd wrong

[Jeff Norwell]

drats....

[Swedester]

the old JP wheels are a bitch to polish,they are really rough,I might know where there are a set,I´ll look in to it.(when I get the time http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif)

[RocketDaemon]

they are still around jp but that modell is probally made in the 60ies,

the neareast cool wheel they do these days
but ahwell, strip the paint and polish them and a spinner or bullet, maybe could look pretty cool

http://195.149.157.9/ad_pics_new/31/31669_nbl_s.jpg

[RPW]

The wheels in the first version of Swordsons car are JP-wheels indeed, but a very rare model, I´ve only seen a few pairs during the years I´ve been into rods & customs (+25 years). I don’t know about the Raider look-a-likes, they can be JP´s as well as JP made many models of wheels, most of them more or less cloned after American mag wheels. JP-wheels were the hot thing over here for any Volvo guy in the mid 60´s- early 70´s, and their 5-spoke clone was also also a very common wheel back then. The wheels were named after a guy´s intitals: Jack Possnert, a race car driver and business man, and manufactured by an aluminum foundry in Eskilstuna .JP-wheels (http://hem.passagen.se/tobiasax/jp.htm) . By the way, that is same small town were CE Johansson did build up his buisness, CEJ was the founder of the gage block that made Ford´s production line possible and also made Cadillac to be "Standard of the world" as he worked with them as well in the early 1900´s. Also in the same town about 80 years later Tommy Claesson built a 32 Ford that got the Bruce Meyer award at Oakland some years ago. And last, but not to be forgotten, it is as well the town of the famous Wildfire Wille, the legendary Swedish artist, and he had a 54 for many years (earlier owned by Peter Sandberg of the GoGetters, but he lives in Västerås and that town is known for something else http://www.bigmeet.com/#...)

[59BuickWagon]

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Many THANKS Jaypee...can ANYBODY IDENTIFY the hemi valve covers??.are they repoped today?
This roadster in its original form just gives me wood!!!!!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

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Look like one of the 6-7 different models of Mikey Thompson valve covers to me. I've seen ones just like that that had "Mickey Thompson" in small letters between the top two fins. Sounds like an idea for a new thread.