I got a text last night from Kimmo - the owner of the "World's Fastest C2" - that he'd be in Baltimore today and that we wanted to stop over tonight! It seems he flew over from Finland @ 10 days ago to Vegas for the SEMA show. After spending 4 days in Vegas, he headed to Iowa to pick up his new '53 . . . which he then drove to Baltimore and will be loaded on a ship and headed home late next week.

We had a great chat and Kimmo showed me tons of photos he took while at the SEMA show, and he brought me up to speed on what he's been doing lately. He's also shipping some parts to my house next week and we'll try to figure out how to get them to the '53 before it leaves for Finland. It was great to see him again as the last time he was here he spent the night before heading off to the Texas Mile last fall.

I know you're all dying to see his new '53 . . . so, here goes!!!





. . . well, at least it's a Chevy!!! He has no idea what he's going to do with it when he gets it back home, but knowing him it will be something very special real soon.

Here's a photo of the World's Fastest C2 in my garage when he was here last year:



Have a great weekend!

Tom

 

awesome....

Bill

 

Worlds slowest 53....

 

Pretty cool!

 

I'm sure that Kimmo has shipped more than a few things over seas and knows well what he is doing. It has been a few years for me, but one thing I was cautioned about more than once was not to ship anything of value, or that you might need soon after arrival with the vehicle. Too often those things disappear in transit ...mysteriously.

Admittedly, all of my shipping was to and from the Pacific.

Good luck... GUSTO

 

Gusto . . . yes, an interesting observation. What most folks don't realize is how Kimmo got his car over here . . . he actually stuffed his '65 inside his race trailer - and they loaded the trailer on the ship (Kimmo works for the shipping company in Finland). Here's a photo of Kimmo arriving at my house last Fall - that's his lovely wife directing "traffic"!. He dropped the big trailer off @ a local storage company and rented a much smaller trailer that he towed across the country!

 

This has been my experience as well. In fact, contractors that ship cars from the US mainland to points westerly (Pacific) prohibit any loose articles in the cars themselves, down to the floor mats and owner's manuals/folder. Everything is placed into a two-person inventoried, sealed, box that is taped on all sides and corners, and signed/marked across the tape.

However, if you set up your own TEU sea-land container, you can fill it up with whatever you want, which I'm guessing Kimmo is doing.

Nice '53. Seems Kimmo has a thing for American wheels.