culture on wheels

artist street — Mercedes-Benz 190SL and BMW 2002 Touring

Sunday was not as warm as had been predicted. The sun shone with its absence. Then it was nice to move outside and it was good photo weather. I got to air both the pedal bike and the dog for a few hours this day. I also spotted some really nice cars in Kunstnergaten.

Kunstnergaten by the old flight tower

Fornebu has its own street by the old flight tower, called Kunstnergaten. Since I don't know anything about art, I often feel a bit stupid when I go there. But it's a nice place with nice people. On Sunday, "everything" is open to the public. Occasionally there is a great car outside the car museum Culture on wheels. The people who run the museum are themselves car enthusiasts who occasionally bring one of their own gems with them.

Today, several fine youngtimers and vintage cars were parked in the street outside the car museum. As one of the participants said - "When all meetings are cancelled, you'd rather arrange a joint drive". In addition to culture in the form of cars, memorabilia from the early days of flight, arts and crafts, you will find the Odonata restaurant with a nice patio. The restaurant was used for filming the first season of the TV program "First date". But you can of course stop by even if you are not on a date.

Shoots at everything

I use a one-handed compact camera from Sony - RX100M3. It is a top model that can be used with one hand and takes very good pictures - good lenses and good software. It is a camera that many journalists use. You can work quickly and shoot at everything. That's what I do. But here I only show pictures of cars.

Also published in the car catalogue

The images taken in connection with car collisions or carspotting along the road are also eventually loaded into the car catalogue here on the blog. The purpose is to collect photos of cars to show how different car models are developed through the model years - and to show different colors and variants of the same model. Everything is easily accessible on the search engines. There are thousands of photos of special cars "spotted" on trips by car, bicycle, dog-on-leash...

… just like these – all taken on the same Sunday.

commodore b — Opel Commodore B in fantastic condition.

commodore gs 2.8 — The GS 2.8 was the top model. This is Opel at its best!

the flight tower — 1973 Renault 15. Beautiful and rare French car.

culture on wheels — Mk1 Range Rover in prime condition is being traded today for staggering sums in England.

fornebu car museum — MGF (tv) is unfortunately becoming rare along the way. Especially seeing it standing next to its much younger Chinese-built relative (th)

See

g500 4x22 — Photo Sunday – Citroen and G 500

4 x 22 — Photo Saturday – Mustang and Mercedes

What do you think of when someone says culture?

Opera? Art? Good wine?

At the old lighthouse on Fornebu is the museum "Culture on wheels". It is a small museum with cars, bicycles, mopeds, motorbikes and windpipes - and Norway's largest collection of Vespas. Private objects are exhibited, and the selection is constantly changing.

When it comes to culture, it is impossible to avoid Italy. Nor here.
My eyes fall on a red Ferrari 308 that looks like it's taken straight from "Magnum PI", you know that series where Tom Selleck plays a private detective who drives around Hawaii in a red Ferrari. But the was a targa (GTS). The Ferrari at Fornebu has a fixed roof (GTB).

I mean to have heard that the 308 is not considered a proper Ferrari. The story can actually be found here at the museum. Next to it stands the origin, a grey-green Dino 308 GT4. "3" for 3 liters and "8" for 8 cylinders. Named after Ferrari's son, Dino, because they did not dare to use the Ferrari name. This is a 2+2 seater with matching brown interior. The similarity to the Magnum-308 is striking. The interior still smells classy. This is sufficient, although some claim that a proper Ferrari should have a V12.

I also stop at a red 1991 Honda NSX, one of the few that was imported to Norway. I remember well when the NSX came on the market. I read the tests in British CAR magazine and American Motor Trend. My dream was created. I think the price tag was 1,2 million here at home. That was a lot for a Honda. When I see the three supercars in the same room, there is no doubt that the NSX is on its way to becoming a classic in any case.

The truly Italian thing about this museum is the Vespa collection. About twenty Vespas from all eras stand gleaming after painstaking renovation where everything is original. Some of the scooters are new. I recognize some from the early seventies. I greet Tom Arheim who I believe is Norway's foremost expert on Vespas in Norway. He owns no less than 14 of the scooters in the room. "These", says Arheim, "are scooters to be renovated", and points to two original, rather shabby bicycles in one corner. He shows me the workshop where a new Vespa is being transformed into a piece of jewelry.

I see on my driver's license that I can drive a light motorcycle up to 125 cubic meters.