Hi all.
I stumbled over this very interesting thread.
When me and my brother were little kids (before TV) we often heard our father Erik telling stories about war-times.
Now this story has always fascinated me.
My father and his best friend Emil had a workshop together where they did everything from repairing vehicles to filling baloons for the circus that traveled by every year.
My father and Emil were good friends with the Sarri brothers from Nikkaluokta.
(this is in Sweden).
They had an interest of beeing able to drive a motorvehicle from Nikkaluokta to Kebnekaise Mountain Lodge (tourist-station about 20 kilometers).
So my father and Emil somehow got a snowmobile but without an engine.
In these times Sweden was a neutral country and the Germans transported lots of war-material through Sweden from Norway.
Every night as a German train stopped at the station (Gällivare) my father and Emil got through the wagons to see if they could find anything useful.
And one night they found a Chrysler V-8 that was just perfect for their snowmobile.
They simply lifted the engine off the train and moved it to the workshop and installed it in the snowmobile.
When it was all done they drove the snowmobile to Nikkaluokta.
Then my father became the first person to drive a motorvehicle from Nikkaluokta to Kebnekaise Mountain Lodge.
He drove the route a few times and one day as he crossed a creeq (a small river) a fuel-line burst and set the whole vehicle on fire and it burned to the ground.
My father died in 1994 and after his departure I found a picture I´d never seen before. (my father holds his hand on the right forward lamp).
Looks very much like a Bombardier to me...but what model?
I will now try to include the picture.
Best to you all.
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