Since we've been in Sweden, we've been struck again and again by the many old American cars that we encounter loudly bubbling along all the roads several times a day. It is probably a widespread passion to restore and repair these huge gas-guzzling beauties during the long winter nights, and then proudly display them for a few months in the summer.

Photographer: Roland Steffen - Gear: FUJIFILM XH2. Pictures not to be used without my explicit permission.

It's hard to believe, but the best preserved classic cars are surprisingly found in Sweden. Because only Volvo and Saab were available there as suppliers for a long time after the Second World War, many US vehicles were imported to Scandinavia.

Here is a German classic car: Volkswagen Karmann-Ghia from the early sixties, discovered in Spiken, an old fishing village on the shores of Lake Vänern near Läckö Castle.

But also Swedish oldtimers are often seen, like here in Trosa, an old Saab from the sixties.

But my favorite was definitely this crazy and beautiful Oldsmobile from the fifties!

The funny thing about this car is that we have already passed them 200 km south of Smögen on the highway and it is exactly on the same campsite in Kungshamn near Smögen as we are, about 180 km south of Oslo.

On the other hand there are also moped gangs in Sweden with old mopeds from the 70s, like here the Mopedgänget from Västerås.