164 Club of Sweden
008731 1441 094/903-589
I bought the car from a person I think was the original owner at Fort Amador, Canal Zone in October 1971, and kept it at Fort Clayton, Canal Zone from 1971-1975 with one trip to Costa Rica in late 1972 or early 1973.
We shipped the car to Charleston, South Carolina in May 1975, and when I arrived a couple days later I drove it to Havelock, North Carolina.
We kept it there until we returned to Panama in 1980.
It was shipped in July 1980 from Charleston, South Carolina and arrived at Balboa, Panama about the first of August.
We kept the car at Fort Clayton, Panama from 1980 until May 1998 when we shipped it to Lake Charles, Louisiana.
We made trips from Panama to Costa Rica in 1980, 81, 82 and 83.
I picked the car up in early July at Lake Charles, Louisiana and drove it home to Bartlesville, Oklahoma, where it currently remains.
In about 1982, after many problems with the Stromberg carburetors, I replaced them with a pair of SU HS6 carbs.
In about 1984, suspecting problems with the lower end, I found a B30E engine in the hands of Uno Johnsson, a Swede formerly from South American but then in Boquete, Panama, a transportation assistant for Skanska, a Swedish construction company doing a job there. I bought the engine from him for $175, plugged the injector ports and installed it in my car.
A couple years later I found an M410 transmission in Pennsylvania and had it shipped to me in Panama in pieces (too heavy to ship in one package). I installed it in the car in late 1986.
In about 1994 I replaced the HS6 carburetors with HIF6. I also replaced the camshaft (badly worn) with an IPD street performance cam with special lifters and pushrods.
It runs very well, LOTS of power. I love to drive it and plan to keep it.
I still have the original engine and may build it back up someday.
George F. Downs III
Bartlesville, Oklahoma
2002-09