VW Kleinbuss Combination

Let's stay in these VW Wagons for a one more while. Good idea! Can't say more. Photo taken in Forssa few years ago.

VW Kleinbuss in Forssa

Let's take an older photo here. This van is photographed in 2005 at Forssa. Quite a number of windows.

VW Golf pickup extended version

This Golf pickup, photographed in vantaa today, is extended version made only for Finland. The reason for this extension was the law. On those days the pickups were released from car-tax because they were two seaters and the main thought was that they were bought to be used in some kind of working purpose. There were several small picups (for example Toyota 1000 in addition to Golf like this, in USA this was, I think, Rappid or something) on market that formed to be famous among the single youth and they bought those cars for driving in everyday use without professional use. So, the law was revisioned to determine the minimum length of the free space behind the cabin so that most of the smallest pickups must be handled as normal cars and the tax must be paid for those too. Car importers decided to go around this law and they planned extensions to these cars and this is one good example of that. You can clearly see the extension at the back of the car.

VW Kleinbuss in Jyväskylä

I was just wondering around in Jyväskylä another day when suddenly this kleinbuss popped in sight. Happen to have a camera in hand so I managed to have a photo.

Standard Leamington 1924 in Helsinki

Photo taken, of course, in Helsinki Cruise at the fist friday of the July. Two weeks for next cruise. Don't forget to watch it with webcam.

Chrysler 300 1961 ?

Nice Chrysler cruising in Helsinki, Finland.

Mustang GT 350

And we are still at the Helsinki Market Place in Helsinki Cruise. And by the way, In the visits of this blog of mine, the Russia leads when we are looking one month statistics. USA is the second and Finland comes to the third place.

Cadillac Eldorado -54

In this case I think I can leave the plates visible. Photos taken in Helsinki Cruise at Helsinki Market Place.

Fiat 600

This Fiat was also photographed at Helsinki Market Place during the Helsinki Cruise.

Citroen DS

And again, photographed in Southern Harbor of Helsinki. It is always a pleasure when seeing this kind of beautiful Citroen DS among the traffic.

Lotus Espirit. (Second in this blog)

This is the second Espirit in my blog. The steering wheel on a left side of the car this time. This car was photographed at parking place of Classic Motor Show in Lahti, Finland. The car was on sale.

MB 560 SL in Helsinki

This MB 560 SL was photographed at the parking place of Motonet in Helsinki.

DeLorean in Helsinki

Fast bypass among the traffic in Helsinki. Don't see these every day.

Sisu S-322D "Dallape" Bus 1933

Photographed 8th of June at Helsinki. The story of the bus in one of the photos is unfortunately only in Finnish but I will try to translate it in near future. Remind me if the translation does not appear in here. The story is from Classic Motorshow at Lahti where this bus was on show.

EDIT: Note the number of doors on a right hand side.











The text in the photo: This bus was manufactured by "Oy Suomen Autoteollisuus Ab" in 1933. This bus was meant to be used in charter travels to southern Europe. Any how it was returned to the manufacturer in very same year because of financial difficulties of the travel agency. Matti Jäppilä, the founder of the dance orchestra-Dallape heard about the bus and bought the bus from the manufacturer on Apr. 4. 1934. The orchestra used the bus on it's rounds during the years 1934 - 1939. Usually couple, two or so, rounds per year. On 1970 the bus was owned by the Automobile Club of Helsinki by the first time. After that the bus was owned by the Svartvik Automobile Museum and after that, on 1980, it was again moved to Automobile Club of Helsinki and the bus was restored by this club. The restoring finished on winter 1985.

American LaFrance in Helsinki

And Here's the number one (in my opinion) of the last Friday Cruise in Helsinki.



















If anyone has any information of this car I'm very happy to receive it. I had no idea that there was something like this in Finland.