The Finnish ’32

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again—overseas traditional hot rodders are a different breed of lunatic. It’s hard enough to chase down the right parts in the U.S., but try building a proper hot rod in Finland. Need a last-minute banjo fitting for your multi-carb setup? In the States, you punch in a few numbers, click “buy,” and a box lands on your doorstep before the weekend. Try that stunt in Northern Europe and you’ll be pacing the floor for weeks, praying some half-baked customs agent doesn’t decide your fuel fittings are a threat to national security.

And that’s just the easy stuff. Reproduction parts. What if you need something real—like a new quarter panel for your ‘32, or a set of garnish moldings? Forget it. Might as well set the damn thing on fire and start restoring Volkswagens.

So when a guy like Auliz fires up a build thread, I’m game for a follow. And when that thread morphs into the documentation of a machine that could roll onto any U.S. fairground and hold its own, I just sit here slack-jawed, wondering how in the hell do these guys pull this off?

Follow along here. You’ll be glad you did.