Power Street Finals Reunion 2009
 

I haven´t had the time to post pics from the last events I have visited. But here are some pics from the Power magazine Street Finals Reunion celebrating the time in the early 90´s when Power magazine shipped cars to Orlando Florida to race against American competitors. All cars had to make a Power tour to show that they were street worthy before they could compete.
Those were the days !
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My friends Johnnie(red 1963 Galaxie conv.) and Johnny(red supercharged 1970 442) when we arrived at Meca Raceway in Malmö, Aug 8 2009.

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This is my old Chevy II !
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427 Galaxie. There was one more at the track.
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This one is interesting ! It´s a mint 20k miles Boss 429. I heard yesterday that it is for sale at around $200k.
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As you can see from the pics, all kinds of cars attended this little event. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/smile.gif

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Three VERY nice Deuces showed up.
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These VW´s are sought after.
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Leadsled built in Finland.
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I believe this one was painted years ago.
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And now the cars racing. The grandstands have been lowered so it wasn´t possible to take any good action-shots. This is what we saw....
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9 second Caddy !
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Passengercar !
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Mr Kjell Gustafsson has been wrinting articles and producing magazines since the seventies. He´s called "Kjelle Power" over here.
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He doesn´t want to talk about all the nice cars he has bought over the years. "Pure Power" is one of them.
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Did you see the sign ? You are not allowed to drive faster than 410 kilometers per hour at the track !!!
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Time to go home.....
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Nice shots Anders! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/beers.gif

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Very Cool!!!...........Thanks for Posting https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif


Ken https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/flag.gif

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Great stuff! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif

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Thanks guys ! I hope you don´t get the impression that I´m trying to show off or something. I just want to give you some insight in the history of American musclecars in Sweden. Just what Janne is writing a book about. Take a look ! www.scandinavianmusclecars.com

This is where the "Kjelle Power"-story started, at Tri-City-Dragway in 1967. He was a young student who got interested in dragracing and started writing articles in Start & Speed magazine. The pic is scanned from the Power Magazine Big Meet Special that I bought the other day.

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<font color="blue">You sending anything over this year?


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I don´t think so Mike. Kjelle started the World Street Finals in the early 90´s after having arranged the Street Finals here in Sweden for some years. He thought that the guys from the nordic countries would be competitive even in the U.S. and therefore he shipped I think it was ten cars to the U.S. He rented the track but after a couple of years, when the ball was rolling, Speed World wanted to take the event away from him. I believe he continued at another track in Florida maybe one or two years, but then he stopped. I have the video from the 1993 event where Mike Moran won the fastest class in a red 1966 Chevy II over "Cronkan" from Sweden.

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