Mark D Posted October 17, 2019 Report Share Posted October 17, 2019 Some of you that have been here a while know that I have a hard time staying in one place for too long. Fortunately my employer has sent me around the world for work more times than I can count. Whats even more fortunate is that this affords me a special ability to actually shake hands and develop great friendships in person with a lot of other old mopar owners. Last year I made 9 trips to Sydney Australia as I was building a new office near the airport and met a Neville Bennett on several of the trips. He and I toured many places in Sydney I would have never have gotten to see if it weren't for his generosity with his time. But I fast forward to these last two weeks and include a few pictures of my visit with another P15 owner in the area of Helsinki Finland. Tommi (who is also on this forum) met me in London for the P15 picnic. (To his credit he trusted his life to me driving on the left side of the road for three days)... After the picnic we took for a few days in Finland and ripped up the roads to the west of Helsinki in his P15 business coupe. I cant advocate travel and meeting people on their own turf enough. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark D Posted October 17, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2019 Tommi on the left, myself center and our friend Martin from Sweden on the right. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark D Posted October 17, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2019 Hanging out at Tommi's place in Artjarvi Finland. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark D Posted October 17, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2019 Tommi pumping expensive litres into the tank. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark D Posted October 17, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2019 Passing under one of Finlands famous land bridges on the east-west highway between Helsinki and Lappeenranta. These bridges are built to makes sure the wildlife can traverse to the other side of the road safely 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark D Posted October 17, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2019 Also made a visit to Ilkka Koskenheimos collection in Kotka Finland. He's done a fine job restoring these cars. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark D Posted October 17, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2019 Looks a lot like New England 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark D Posted October 17, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2019 (edited) The slow lane is often the best lane. Edited October 17, 2019 by Mark D 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg g Posted October 17, 2019 Report Share Posted October 17, 2019 World wide Gearheads! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keithb7 Posted October 17, 2019 Report Share Posted October 17, 2019 Awesome. Thanks for taking the time to post and share this. Great to see mopar lovers around the world. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldodge41 Posted October 18, 2019 Report Share Posted October 18, 2019 Fantastic! I wish sometimes I were more adventurous, but I sure enjoy watching others travels. Especially when they involve old Mopars. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Go Fleiter Posted October 19, 2019 Report Share Posted October 19, 2019 Thank You to let us see Your travel!! Greetings from Düsseldorf! Go 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andydodge Posted October 20, 2019 Report Share Posted October 20, 2019 I'm 2/3rds up the coast from Sydney towards Brisbane, so if you, Mark or indeed any forum members ever get to Oz and would like a bed or coffee feel free to let me know.........Andy Douglas 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Larson Posted October 20, 2019 Report Share Posted October 20, 2019 Great thread! Actually meeting people in person is the best. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark D Posted October 20, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2019 20 hours ago, Andydodge said: I'm 2/3rds up the coast from Sydney towards Brisbane, so if you, Mark or indeed any forum members ever get to Oz and would like a bed or coffee feel free to let me know.........Andy Douglas Andy I wish I had ventured north to see you. I know at one time we had conversed about this. My visits unfortunately always started Monday morning and my weeks were filled with meetings and job site visits until my flight home on the following Friday. But I will be back to follow up on business as usual down under and since our business (TKMaxx) is doing so well in Australia, I’m betting I’ll be talking about expansion down there very soon. I promise your on my list next visit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andydodge Posted October 21, 2019 Report Share Posted October 21, 2019 Mark.........whatever your business is I'm sure that there is a need to expand into the mid north coast of NSW, could I suggest Grafton as the ideal place to open a new place of business...........Oh........your company explodes atom bombs........err........can I rethink the offer............lol.............nah, all good ...........lol..........andyd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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