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A really good friend and the main reason my wife split :dunno:


Noting wrong with having a really good friend. Wives need to understand that :evil:
 
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So interesting to see a guy from Denmark working on American drag racers and driving a Chrysler Mini-van! :thumbup:

How will you heat the place this winter?
 
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So interesting to see a guy from Denmark working on American drag racers and driving a Chrysler Mini-van! :thumbup:

How will you heat the place this winter?


Its cool to build racecars and yes I am lucky that I can live off my hobby :)
The minivan is 32mpg diesel , thats why :)
Heating this winter will probably be oil, but in the future it will be some kind of heat pump .
 
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The main waterline is from the 1930s Today was the third time a blacksmith tried to fix it :)
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Cleanup some old trees and roots
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How can you afford the petrol for that thing? If I had to spend $8 per gallon, I would drive a 32 mpg minivan.
 
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Winter is coming fast here , race season is just over , We did not got as much done outside as we had hoped for, now we are moving inside and will make ​​some workspace and heat source.

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Here will the kitchen and living room be
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Your project is coming along nicely. When do you think you will be able to move into your new apartment?

Thanks :) . In about 5-6 weeks :)
We close the old shop in about 2 weeks and then will work full time on the new shop until we can move in :)
 
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Torben....do you guys in Denmark recycle steel like we do here in the states? If so, you must have made some serious coin off of everything you scrapped out?

At least enough for beers which by the way, looks like your buddy was getting rid of over by the trees. :lol:
 
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One from yesterday
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In 2 or 3 days there will be some inside walls and insulation mounted in this room
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A couple of days ago we found this in one of the old buildings :)
From 1964 29 hp VW engine
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The original vw key :)
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Coming along nicely... you guys have to be burning through a lot of cash though with all the renovation and repair work!!!

The renovation could go much faster with borrowed money but we have chosen to take it easy and pay everything at once. But yes it has cost little by hand :)
 
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Torben....do you guys in Denmark recycle steel like we do here in the states? If so, you must have made some serious coin off of everything you scrapped out?

At least enough for beers which by the way, looks like your buddy was getting rid of over by the trees. :lol:

Yes we sell scrap for recycling, we get about 20 cents per kg, for now we have delivered just over 100 tonnes .

All those who help with the renovation are good friends and they are all real party animals. So we do not drink in working time when everything would otherwise end up in a big party :beer::evil:

We have many illegal Polish craftsmen in Denmark, but they drink a lot of vodka and their work look like that . :dunno:
 
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Torben Tss

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Is the blue beam a rolling bridge crane? Handy to have if it is.

Charles

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Yes it is, one of my friends is crane fitter and he has brought new engines and control for the entire crane, crane track goes all the way through the Building .. Our plan is to take the crane down and sandblast it and paint it .
 

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Wow Torben, what a fantastic place you are building!

I love the old building(s), and I love what you are doing to it...

I have subscribed to your build, and if it wasn't so far away from Cph. I would swing by with some cold beers, so that I could enjoy it first hand... you and your team are without doubt good compagny!

Perhaps we will meet at a race track or at Vandel :)

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What do you drift by the way?

And are you compeeding in the Scandinavian Drift Challenge og just for fun?


Best regards

Jacob

Hej Jacob

We do not Drift but race some Dragrace and have you been on Vandel before you most have seen us :)

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But we are Building Drift cars for Hell Racing team and a couple other Guys

Martin Hell 2008 Corvette LS3
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Jack Hell 2010 Corvette LS3
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Robert 700 hp 427 LSX Mazda RX
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You are allways welcome over here :rocker:
 

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Hello again Torben,

Sorry about the misunderstanding, but I had not understood that it was only dragraces you competed in yourself.

I have not been on Vandel for several years, but I've been in the "race industry" for many years, most recently as team manager for the current Danish Champion in Rallysprint and a drifting project, why I have come across your cars several times, not least to CHGP.

One of the people I deal with professionally (Preben Overgaard), has just bought a 41 Willys drag racer, which he will use for selected races in 2014, so maybe you will bump in to him... Although I fully understand that you will not be competing in the same class ;-)

Are you on linkedin.com Torben? ... Perhaps we could use each other in the future, who knows ;-)

Best regards,

Jacob
 

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A couple of days ago we found this in one of the old buildings :)
From 1964 29 hp VW engine
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The original vw key :)
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Everything is looking great! That is a 40 HP industrial VW engine. Cool find! Simple to fix and maintain, scrapping or keeping it?
 

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One thing nice about Page 3 is that this Chickypoo is at the very top when it opens up. I think she needs to be at the top of each of Torbens pages. :rocker:

BTW.....the VW engine is a cool find too :lol:
 
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Torben Tss

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Hello again Torben,

Sorry about the misunderstanding, but I had not understood that it was only dragraces you competed in yourself.

I have not been on Vandel for several years, but I've been in the "race industry" for many years, most recently as team manager for the current Danish Champion in Rallysprint and a drifting project, why I have come across your cars several times, not least to CHGP.

One of the people I deal with professionally (Preben Overgaard), has just bought a 41 Willys drag racer, which he will use for selected races in 2014, so maybe you will bump in to him... Although I fully understand that you will not be competing in the same class ;-)

Are you on linkedin.com Torben? ... Perhaps we could use each other in the future, who knows ;-)

Best regards,

Jacob


Im not on likedin but im on facebook , there are also shown a lot of our Projects :)
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Hook me up there or otherwise on mail [email protected]

Preben ? Is that Preben Pluten ?
 
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One thing nice about Page 3 is that this Chickypoo is at the very top when it opens up. I think she needs to be at the top of each of Torbens pages. :rocker:

BTW.....the VW engine is a cool find too :lol:[/QUOTE]

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