New guy from Finland

[tyoneal]

Howdy Juhani!

Welcome!

Sounds like you have the car building talent down to a fine art. If you get a chance, post some pictures of your Rides.

Here are a couple of mine.

1) 1965 Buick Riviera, "Roadhouse Riv". (In Paint Currently)
2) 1964 Grand Sport Corvette "No Name Yet". (Rest of the Mid-America Parts just got here so should be moving forward in December 2010)
3) 1962 TR3B Survivor. Wife's car "no name yet"
4) '69 Camaro Profile, "She Devil", aka. Betty. Waiting on parts so it can move forward)
5) '69 Camaro, Interior picture w. Recaro Seats and Roll Cage
6) '69 Camaro, Another view of the Interior. Looking forward to making progress.

Hang in and stay active so we can follow your projects.

Take care,

Ty O'Neal
Frisco, Texas

BTW: Your English is a hell of a lot better than my Finnish.

Originally Posted by SuperB70

Hey all!

Been watching other stuff for a while and now its time to sep up:

Name is Juhani and I'm a boostaholic

I'm 36, live in Finland, Europe, I'm a welder, a machinist and a carpenter for a living. Been buildind cars, engines past 20 years..

Love them all: huffers, turbos but not so much centrifugal.

Havent built PT car yet but my next will be.

I have candidate already: '70 Dodge SuperBee, gonna stuff brand new gen3 Viper engine in w/turbos. But all that is still ahead. I have the engine already.

Body is outside in snowbank waiting me to get other cars out of the door.

Building now '70 camaro with blown bb stroker and '65 Stang ragtop restoration in my own hand build 1100sqft garage.

Hope you all will understand me english and love to be a member.

I'm just blown away by all the talent in here.

Let's all bend and weld some metal.

From cold and snowy Finland, Juhani

[tyoneal]

Juhani:

Oops!

Should have read further down first.

Your cars look like a lot of fun. Do you have a number of friends that like Pro-Touring Cars/Muscle Cars?

Any Clubs you belong to?

Yes, my favorite Fin, Jean Sibelius. Great Composer! Favorite piece is, "Finlandia". Great history about this song during the early Russian influence.
Your country held together well through that hard time. I am sure you are proud.

Part of it is in your "National Anthem", I think, right? (Or at least a version of it?)

Anyway, glad your here.

Take care,

Ty O'Neal
Frisco, Texas

[SuperB70]

Hey teoneal!

Thanks, for the kind words.

Awesom looking cars, love the camaro cagework.

Yes, your right on our anthem. But it's not that anthem that play on olympicgames and so on. That's different song calll'd: Maamme ( our land).

And how can you not be proud, only country that could give old bad cccp an a..kicking. Only country against cccp that kept it's independents.

One Fin equals ten russian... That was ration on casualties. That for History lesson.

About cars:

Unfortunately I have to tell you that Camaro and Mustang are not mine, I just built them. I'm a Mopar guy,even daily I drive a Superduty dually.

Camaro is scary to drive, even 60mph it still loses grip and you can burn rubber as long you have rubber or balls...The owner has ultra rare original '70 HEMI Challenger with original gatorskinrood plus extras and has not even registered it here cos someday he's gonna sell it back to States.

Swinger was first street racer, first build mid '80, i got it '93 rebuild it in next 10 year. Then turn'd to pro street/touring with 4l60E trans,Tci TCU controler box home made paddle shifter system. Top speed that thing was so high that never got end of it. My best was 155mph then fiberglass hood reminded a camping tent so it was time to fit.

Super bee is gonna be my talent showpiece. I'm not even nothing to compare these pro's here in forum but hey, my garage machining department tools are 3 different size angle grinders and a cordless drill Even though I got this awesom engine, I'm not a rich dude. just normal bluecollar guy...

My friend is a teacher local school where he teaches CNC machining so I get my parts done cheap but not so fast.

Here in Finland we have strong represents of hod rods, customs and muscle cars. Lot's of clubs, almost ever city has one. Lot of talented builders,beautiful hot rod, fast cars. I'm lone wolf, no club. We are car country, there is a saying motorssportworld: If you wanna win, hire a Fin. We have champions in rallying, drag racing, all kind formula ( not in us) , F1 boats and so on.

catch you later, gotta go

, Juhani

[04Prox2]

Welcome! I'm also part Finnish, my dad didn't learn how to speak English till grade school.

[SuperB70]

Kiitos, 04Prox2 it seems that you are not alone. There are few else how roots and in Finnish soil.

Can I ask that do you know here from Finland did they came from?

, Juhani

[04Prox2]

Are you asking where in Finland did my grandparents come from?

[SuperB70]

Sorry little typo there.

Yes, that was my intention to ask. You dont need to answer if you dont want to or can send me pm. I'm just curious.

, Juhani

[04Prox2]

No biggie, that's fine. My grandfather was from the Eura area, came here in the 30's and married my grandmother who was second generation...Aino and Eino.