7. júní 2010

Open for the summer 2010!

The summer has arrived once again, drawing us out of the garage

Dixie Flyer 1919!

and into the sunlight where we have been busy getting the showrooms ready. Some new machines have been added to our inventory this winter, we finished restoring an Oliver Cletrac HG belt tractor. The National Museum of Iceland and the Transportation Museum at Ystafell made a contract, it was agreed that we would preserve and showcase a Ford Zephyr Zodiac model 1955 that used to belong to Sigurður Pétur Björnsson (Silli), a bank governor from Húsavík. Silli gave the car to the National Museum of Iceland in 1991, since then it has been in storage in Reykjavík but now it will be here with us. A few days ago we got a very rare piece of eye candy, a 1919 Dixie Flyer. The Dixie Flyer was only manufactured from 1916 until 1923 and they are extremely rare in the world today. This specific unit came new to Akureyri and is still in good condition. Arngrímur Jóhannsson from Akureyri loaned us the vehicle. And last but not least we also have a Facebook page now so you can catch us there with videos and pictures.

13. júlí 2009

The Icelandic museum day!

A portion of the cars!

To celebrate the Icelandic day of the museum, members of the car club in Akureyri dropped in driving their antique cars to pay us a visit. Jón Sigurðsson along with the father and son, Þorgrímur and Óli, cruised from Húsavík in their cars and enjoyed a cup with us. The day turned out great and it surely didn't spoil the fun when a Skoda 440S anno. 1956 dropped in. It turned out to be a couple from the Czech Republic traveling through Iceland. Approximately 100 guests paid us a visit over the course of the day, the sun was shining brightly but kindly enough mother nature brought us a refreshing sea-breeze. Perhaps rather too refreshing, if not chilling after a while. The staff here at the museum would like to thank it's guests for a lovely day.

20. október 2008

Asphalt!

"KM malbik" putting asphalt on the parking lot.

Now we have made a bigger and paved parking lot in front of our older showroom. The museum has got many vehicles this summer, I will tell you about few. Eiríkur Óskarsson gave us a Cadillac 1982, former president car of Iceland, it was used when Vigdís Finnbogadóttir was president. Hulda and her brother Sigurjón from Bitrugerði in Eyjafjörður gave us Hanomag R 12 from 1955, they bought the tractor new and it is in excellent condition. Baldur´s Sigurðsson Sno-cat came to us in the last days of September. The Sno-cat is in very good condition, despite its many rough rescue trips over the years. We have started to work on our next project, it is Oliver Cletrac HG which came new to the Álafoss farm in Mosfellsbæ. You can click on the picture to see more pictures from last summer. 

25. maí 2008

Summer has arriwed!

Ford 1945 and 1938.

The summer has arriwed, sun is shining and warm weather. We drove the Ford 1938 truck in to the showroom last week. It is now just like it was imported to Iceland 70 years ago. Both the showrooms are now ready for the summer. 

10. mars 2008

The Ford truck finally painted!

Ford 1938.

Well, we have finally painted the Ford 1938 truck, which we have been working on over the past years. We are putting two cars together, Ingolfur Jónsson the manager of the cooperative at Hella bought one of them new. The other one came new to the school farm at Hólar in Hjaltadalur. The color was green and black on both cars when they were new. Hopefully we can finish it before the summer.

5. nóvember 2007

Winter is here!

Sunbeam Rapier.

Well now the winter has arrived here in Ystafell and we have put most of the cars inside, today there are 104 cars and tractors inside. Emiliana Torrini singer gave us this Sunbeam Rapier which are on the picture to the right. Her grandfather, Aage L'orange jazz pianist bought it new. We have got many cars this year for example Austin Gypsi 1962, Mercedes Bens 1985 Þ400, Peugeot 504 1974 and Oliver Cletrac HG tractor 1946. People have also loaned us some cars. We got two groups visiting us last friday, the staff at the meat factory in Husavik came first and Skeljungur brought there customers in this area on friday night. Click on the picture on the right to see more pictures from the last days.

14. ágúst 2007

Beautyful car!

28. júlí 2007

Good visit!

20. júní 2007

International 10-20 from 1930.

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