Unusual sightseeing in Småland

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December 10th 2013

Published: December 15th 2013

"The highway's jammed with broken heroes" We love visiting traditional tourist sights. Iconic landmarks like Empire State Building, the Eiffel Tower and the Leaning Tower of Pisa have been included in our travel itineraries. Historical places such as Macchu Piccu, the Colosseum and Shibam are just as important to us. Wildlife and nature is also high on our agenda when we plan trips. Monarch B... Read Full Entry

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Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

Ake Och Emma

We are Emma Holmbro and Ake Dahllof. We live in Stockholm, Sweden. We have travelled more or less regularly since the mid 1990-ies and it seems like the more we travel the more difficult it is to decide where to go next. Not because we are running out of places to visit but because we find more places we want to go to faster than we manage to travel to them. Some of the things from our travel bucket list we have ticked off since we started this blog in 2006 are Angel Falls in Ven... full info

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Nobody tells you where to go

"Hey kids, rock and roll Nobody tells you where to go, baby What if I ride, what if you walk?"/ Drive

Not moving fast

"Been driving all nite just to get close to you Baby Babe - I'm moving so fast"/ Sleeping in my car

Likely not a Mercedes Benz, but let's pretend for a while...

"Worked hard all my lifetime, no help from my friends, So Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?"/ Mercedes Benz

Likely not a Ford Thunderbird, but let's pretend for a while...

"Don't you give me no Buick Son, you must take my word If there's a God in heaven He's got a Silver Thunderbird You can keep your Eldorados And the foreign car's absurd Me, I wanna go down In a Silver Thunderbird"/ Silver Thunderbird

Likely not a Chevrolet, but let's pretend for a while...

"I got a sixty-nine Chevy with a 396 fuelie heads and a hurst on the floor"/ Racing in the street

Maybe this car was driven to a river once

"That night we went down to the river And into the river we'd dive Oh down to the river we did ride... ...But I remember us riding in my brother's car Her body tan and wet down at the reservoir"/ The River

Has been in a crash?

"Here you go way to fast don't slow down you're gonna crash"/ Crash

Likely not a Buick, but let's pretend for a while...

"I'd sit on his lap in that big old Buick and steer as we drove through town"/ My Hometown

Has seen its last dirty road

"Well I started out down a dirty road Started out all alone"/ Learning to fly

Maybe this car once crashed on a highway

"I just lay there awake in the middle of the night thinking 'bout the wreck on the highway"/ Wreck on the Highway

Maybe a loving couple once "got it right" in this car

"I was thinking about parking the other night We was out on a back road Me and my baby was just getting right" /Steamy Windows

This is not a magic bus

"'Cause I drive my baby every way Magic Bus, Magic Bus, Magic Bus ... I said, now I've got my Magic Bus"/ Magic Bus

Likely not a Cadillac, but let's pretend for a while...

"Cadillac, Cadillac Long and dark, shiny and black Open up your engines let 'em roar Tearing up the highway like a big old dinosaur"/ Cadillac Ranch

Likely not a Ford Thunderbird, but let's pretend for a while...

"And she'll have fun, fun, fun 'Til her daddy takes the T-Bird away"/ Fun, Fun, Fun

Probably someone drove this on a Sunday at some point

"If you want to use the car to go ridin' next Sunday"/ Summertime Blues

Likely not a Honda, but let's pretend for a while...

"First gear (honda honda) it's alright (faster faster) Second gear (little honda honda)"/ Little Honda

This car won't be driven by any baby anytime soon

"Baby you can drive my car Yes I'm gonna be a star"/ Drive my car

Likely not a Chevrolet, but let's pretend for a while...

"They haunt this dusty beach road In the skeleton frames of burned out Chevrolets"/ Thunder Road

Nobody has gotten in to this car for a while

"Hey you, get in to my car Who me? Yes you, get in to my car"/ Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car

Likely not a Dodge, but let's pretend for a while...

"And the Magic Rat drove his sleek machine Over the Jersey state line Barefoot girl sitting on the hood of a Dodge" /Jungleland A reader said that he identified this car as a MK2 Jaguar

Likely not a Chevrolet, but let's pretend for a while...

"Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry"/ America Pie

15th December 2013

Dancing Dave
David Hooper

Broken heroes...heading to car heaven
Sort of spiritual to see pages of broken heroes...broken bodies...their souls long departed...leaving only empty shells. Great blog...beautiful but tragic images.

16th December 2013

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

Thanks David
Thank you for the kind words. /Ake

16th December 2013

Grace
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Cool collection of abandoned cars
Loved to see these abondoned cars, I have seen a few here in california. www.travoline.com

17th December 2013

D MJ Binkley
Dave and Merry Jo Binkley

Little attention from guide books
What a charming blog. Glad you shared the story with us. It is like going to a museum of art! Beautiful photos.

19th February 2017

Bryan
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Ford
This looks to be a Ford Anglia of the seventies made in Dagnham Essex England

19th February 2017

Bryan
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Ford
This also lookes to be a UK ford but possible a Prefect from the fifties also called a puddle jumper

19th February 2017

Bryan
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Austin Uk
This looks to be a UK Austin A30 also from the fifties these had a Flying 'A' bonnet badge

19th February 2017

Bryan
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Morris UK
Looks to be a Morris Miner could be a Fifties model

19th February 2017

Bryan
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JAG
looks to be a sixtis MK 2 Jaguar

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