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From Sweden with a love for green oil

Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2017 11:25 am
by Himlar
Hi all,

My name is Fredrik and I'm from Linkoping, Sweden. You might believe that I'm not even 30 years old, but deep down I'm a middle aged man with an addiction to green oil ... ;)
In reality, that means that I'm running an S2 Exclusive as a daily driver (a car I'm right now doing some rustfixing on and slowly morphing into my perfect XM), having a Xantia Activa 16V as a track day toy and building a pure time attack car on a Xantia Activa TCT.

Some pics from the garage:
ImageIMG_2811 by Fredrik Henriksson, on Flickr
ImageIMG_2817 by Fredrik Henriksson, on Flickr
ImageIMG_3696 by Fredrik Henriksson, on Flickr
ImageIMG_3695 by Fredrik Henriksson, on Flickr
ImageIMG_1543 by Fredrik Henriksson, on Flickr
ImageIMG_1678 by Fredrik Henriksson, on Flickr
ImageIMG_3519 by Fredrik Henriksson, on Flickr
ImageIMG_2215 by Fredrik Henriksson, on Flickr
ImageIMG_2222 by Fredrik Henriksson, on Flickr

Re: From Sweden with a love for green oil

Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2017 12:10 pm
by Dean
Thats a nice collection you have there, The Activa's must be pretty rare now surely?

D

Re: From Sweden with a love for green oil

Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2017 12:22 pm
by Himlar
I think they are getting rarer, absolutely, but since they are so unsuspecting they still are cheap. My whole fleet of cars has cost me less than the equivalent of GBP 3000, but that might just be me finding the most worn-down cars around ...

Re: From Sweden with a love for green oil

Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2017 12:45 pm
by Dieselman
Hi Frederik, welcome.

The rust fixing pictures will make you fit in well here. Our cars suffer exactly the same.

Re: From Sweden with a love for green oil

Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2017 8:10 pm
by cxprestigeauto
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I agree!

Re: From Sweden with a love for green oil

Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2017 8:25 pm
by Himlar
cxprestigeauto wrote: Drivers side, fresh from having a new wing fitted. Don't you just love body shops?!
I agree!
How the ... how did they manage to do that?!

BTW; the mount I showed in my photo collapsed when I was supposed to disassemble the front to change the fenders into newer, less rusted ones. Then it spiraled, and the starter motor gave up at the same time ...

Re: From Sweden with a love for green oil

Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2017 9:35 pm
by cxprestigeauto
The car had suffered a bump on the drivers side front. The body shop boys simply slapped a new (Series 2) wing over this twisted bumper mount. I had to beat it straight and repair the rust damage. The near side had simply rotted away. Still, nice and easy welding. Rob