Category Archives: landcruiser
Saturday, November 19, 2011
1. We can be very thankful that things happened the way they did and we found the car in May, picked it up in June and could work on it during the summer months because doing all that work on the car now, during the winter months, in that garage or outside would have been […]
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
The Swedish number plates for the cruiser came in the mail today! Will have to see how they work with bull bar and things tomorrow, or if we maybe have to order a different sized one for the front, but these are apparently new, modern EU plates and they look nice. What’s nice is also […]
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Sunday, November 13, 2011
I borrowed this photo from Wikipedia (and cropped it) after a Google search on where in the world you drive on the right side of the road and where you drive on the wrong, sorry, I mean left, side of the road. This was quite interesting to see – I haven’t actually given it much […]
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Saturday, November 12, 2011
The inspector called already yesterday morning and said we now have a license number for the cruiser! We really just wanted to get it all done and over with and since Brian always work half days on Fridays we thought we might as well drive there the same day. It really was a 5 minute […]
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Thursday, November 10, 2011
We passed! The cruiser is good to go, in great shape, legal, and all the rest. It feels like a lot of hard work has finally paid off and like we actually made it through the whole importing process without any huge obstacles, since the few things the inspector has commented on were easy to […]
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Thursday, November 10, 2011
Okay so after fixing the car up yesterday and Brian mounting the new brake pipe that Peter had made during the day (thank you!) we headed for the inspection station – just to find out that the inspector we were supposed to see had finished work an hour earlier… So there’s was nothing else to […]
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Tuesday, November 8, 2011
…I would say some not so nice things to him about him and his stupid law. Because he seems to be forever present in our lives thesedays. We were so close to having the car fit for fight for one final inspection tomorrow. So close. I got to the garage straight from town (where I […]
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Tuesday, November 8, 2011
We’ve been home for five days and today, for the first time since we got back, the sun has broken through the thick layer of gray clouds. So nice with some sun. We had no idea what weather to expect when we got back and were quite relieved that it was still so warm, but […]
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