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Posted by Sweden SS (Member # 1747) on :

Hello gang!
I went to the last CCS meet of the season today and as usual snapped some pics... CCS August Camaro, 2003

I think we broke some sort of swedish record today! Four LS1 SS's in the same place at the same time [Eek!]

The last I heard was that there are only five in the country so if that's true then we were just one short. I've met the owner of the red one before and I knew he was gonna show up today so when the other two rolled in I almost peed my pants. What a surprise!!! [Razz]

- The red is a -98 M6 with no SLP options.
- The NBM is a -99 auto coupe with chrome wheels, Bilstein weekend racing suspension and performance exhaust.
- The black is a -01 M6 with bilstein suspension and performance exhaust.

The owner of the red one said he was gonna join the SSOA... don't know about the two others.

Today was a good day [Cool]

[ 30. August 2003, 11:54 AM: Message edited by: Sweden SS ]

Posted by MMMM_ERT (Member # 1599) on :

Nice pics! Good to see the musclecar representing
over there. [Big Grin]

Posted by DaddySS (Member # 848) on :

Excellent - thanks for the pics! [Smile]

Posted by SSSupercar (Member # 1990) on :

Great pics...I'm amazed that there are that many F-Body cars in Sweden! [Eek!]

Posted by wickman43 (Member # 2003) on :

those are awesome pics, great looking cars. Its great seeing folks from other countries enjoying the SS tradition. [Cool]

Posted by Big A (Member # 1761) on :

Nice Pics!!!!

Posted by 02SS1LE (Member # 2085) on :

Very nice photos !
Thanks for sharing. [Cool]

Posted by SS_CarGuy (Member # 2065) on :

Nice pictures. Great to see all those Camaro's in Volvo and Saab country.

It looks like there were quite a few Camaro's there besides the 4th gens. Do you know how many?
The Camaro looks like a relatively popular car over there.

Posted by Sweden SS (Member # 1747) on :

quote:
Originally posted by SS_CarGuy:
It looks like there were quite a few Camaro's there besides the 4th gens. Do you know how many?

45 cars showed up that day.

Just a side note...
I visited Stockholm International Motor Show back in April this year. In a booth in the mess hall you could get stats about your car just by giving them your license plate number. They weren't able to do a model drill down (SS, Z28, V6 and so on), just get stats on Camaro's in general. Here's what I got then...

Total number of cars in the country: 297
Number of 1999 model year cars: 40
Average age of male owners: 42
Average age of female owners: 46
Number of male owners: 184
Number of female owners: 57
Number of cars owned by companies: 56

Posted by BobsSS (Member # 1857) on :

Nice pics. Why is it that some of them have the export lighting and some do not? Are the ones without the export lighting legal?

[ 31. August 2003, 12:36 PM: Message edited by: BobsSS ]

Posted by Hawkeye (Member # 88) on :

kinda cool indeed. must make you a tad proud
as well. [Big Grin]

Posted by Sweden SS (Member # 1747) on :

quote:
Originally posted by BobsSS:
Nice pics. Why is it that some of them have the export lighting and some do not? Are the ones without the export lighting legal?

Yes, they are legal. I suppose that the simplest way to explain it is that there are different sets of rules based on how the car entered the country. Hurray for bureaucracy [Roll Eyes]

If the car was originally sold in Europe it has to have fog lights in the rear bumper, positioning lights (or whatever they're called) on the fenders and folding rear view mirrors to make it legal. If the car was originally sold in Sweden it has to have headlight cleaners as well. The way that the lights work also differs from US spec cars. For example, you have to have the low beams on all the time here in Sweden, it's required by law. Therefore they automatically turn on when you start the car. The orange positioning lights in the nose has to be white, it's illegal to have orange lights in the front, and they must be off when the headlight are on and vice versa.

If you import a US car you have to drill holes for the lights in the fenders and rewire the lights in the front so that they work the way I just briefly tried to explain. You don't have to replace the mirrors with folding ones or put foglights in the rear.

If you've lived in the US and has owned the car for over twelve months you can take it with you back to Sweden as personal property. Then you don't have to do anything with the car except to change the orange lights in the front.

I guess this post is a bit confusing. It's hard to try and explain all the weird rules and regulations we have to live by over here [Frown]

In the beginning of this year the authorities tried to ban private import of cars all togheter but they had to lift that ban. To put it mildly, the **** hit the fan [Big Grin]

Posted by 2002Z4CSS (Member # 1393) on :

Thanks for the nice pictures! [Cool]

Posted by MM (Member # 1247) on :

Some nice looking iron over there.... espically some nice looking third gens. You don't see many clean ones anymore over here. [Smile]

Posted by WayneSS01 (Member # 734) on :

I always enjoy your pics from Sweden. [Cool]

Posted by Mike Bonte (Member # 1892) on :

That is very cool!

[Cool]

Thanks for the pictures

Posted by alfredf00_1673 (Member # 142) on :

That is REALLY Interesting!!

[Eek!]

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