Neil Hopcroft

It was nice to see some street cars taking a run on the strip – the 9000s especially made good time, around 12 seconds standing quarter mile is not too shabby for a 10 year old stock car. Though I doubt mine will do that without a little tuning.

After waiting in the queue its time to step forward and warm your tyres for the take off.

A traffic queue like none I have ever seen, thousands of horsepower lined up waiting for burnout and take off.

This is where all that raw power comes into its own, the chassis twisting as thousands of horsepower is pushed through the rubber propelling the cars forward to cover a quarter mile in as little as 6 seconds.

The strip at the Mälardalen Open.

We went to the Drag Racing event at Eskiltuna Flygplats.

There was a parade of winners at the end of the Barkarby Classic Car Show.

Futurliner #8 was on show, having recently arrived in Sweden for a ten year resoration project. Originally used as part of the Parade of Progress there were 12 of these futuristic buses made and driven across America during the 40s and 50s showing off developments being made in auto engineering.

At the Barkarby car show there was a stand showing tools and equipment for looking after classic cars.

As expected there were plenty of American cars at the Barkarby Show this year.