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cannucky

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Hi all I am in the planning stages of a European vacation that will involve shipping my car over in a container , probably to the UK to start but really that will be determined by cost , inspection requirements etc ... .
That said my first question is what is the availability of 92 or higher octane gas ? can I get high octane pure gas ie no ethanol ? and what countries if any have no availability for quality fuel ?
Second question is what is the best country to send the car to as far as inspection requirements and temporary plating ?
I was originally planning on coming over the spring of 2016 and am still sort of shooting for that timeline , hopefully I can get the car over in the early spring , spend 4-6 weeks cruising and meeting FABO members then get the car back to the East coast of Canada in time to hit Moparfest in mid August while doing the coast to coast cross Canada trip , any help , advice and info is greatly welcomed .
 
I can highly recommend Power Big Meet at the town Västerås 100km west of Stockholm
http://bigmeet.com/eng/
And after that event you can visit Classic Car Week at Rättvik by the beautiful area of the lake Siljan in the middle of Sweden. There`s a lot of activities during this week.
Sorry no links in english available. But here are some translates so that you can navigate thrue the links on the page: Boende= Living, Rättviksparken= The amusementspark,
vecka= Week
http://www.classiccarweek.com/veckorprogram/
And there are numerous of other events in the whole country during our short season.
And the distance isn`t that far between the events.
I don´t think there`s any trouble with bringning your classic over here, don´t believe you have to do anything but see to that you`re insured.
I haven´t had any problem with our gas some gascompanies sales what they call high octane gas, but if its any different from regular gas I can´t tell. I´m using octane booster in my Fish.
// Swedefish
 
Every gasstation in Sweden has both 95 and 98 octane.
 
Darn I posted this once already but it disappeared ? Here in Canada we get either 87-89-91/92 except a few places carry an ethanol free 94 so 98 is awesome , I can add some timing and make some real power ! thanks now I just need to hear from Germany , Holland and the UK , Maybe France as well .
 
Don't know about other EU countries but at least here in Finland you cannot get ethanol-free gas at all. 95 has 10% of it 98 only 5%.
 
cannucky said:
Hi all I am in the planning stages of a European vacation that will involve shipping my car over in a container.
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I think we here are going to have to demand a progress thread with photos and video, LMAO
 
Much like "What happens at Moparfest stays at Moparfest" your going to have to be there to know what really happens eh! All I can say is the tentative plan is to skip Moparfest this summer {2016} to save for this trip in 2017 which will hopefully end with the car and I arriving on the East coast of Canada a week or two before the 2017 Moparfest so I can include that in a Coast to Coast drive back to Victoria .
 
@cannucky

the German Mopar Nationals will take place on the 06th of August (usually most of the people will arrive at the evening hours of the 5th to party) - it will take place in Herten if you have a Facebook-Account you can get the lastest information there https://www.facebook.com/MoparNationalsGermany
or from the "German Moparshop" which will do the organisation www.moparshop.de - owners email will be oliver@moparshop.de

conc. your fuel question... i dont know, but i think there is a difference between the measurement in Canada and Germany (we use ROZ guess you have to search the Web to compare ROZ to your standards)

.... in Germany usually you will find

Super E10 ROZ:95 contains 10% Ethanol
Super or Super 95 (sometimes with suffix E5) ROZ:95 contains 5% Ethanol
Super plus or Super 98 ROZ:98 contains 5% Ethanol
Super V-Power (only on Shell Gas Stations) ROZ:100
Super Ultimate (only on ARAL Gas Stations) ROZ:102

prices are in the range of 1,20 to 1,30 Euro per Liter at the moment which is equal to 1.85 CanDollar to 2 CanDollar per Liter ... (>> 7 to 7.60 CanDollar per Gallon maybe easier to compare for you) for us, it´s pretty cheap this time, but who knows, usually prices climb up during the summer time

we also have some (small) drag racing events, but most of them are still not confirmed by the organisators (to much **** about reginol laws etc..) so if you are interested best will be to search the web from time to time about them.
 
Thanks for the info , not sure if I'll still be there in August , I'm hoping for some spring events so I can get the car back in time for the third week in August for Moparfest but who knows how it will work out it's still a long way off .

PS Darwin I'll update the thread when I get back to it , the short days and crappy weekends have kept me away from the car for a while , they keep saying I'm going to get a lay-off for a few weeks but they keep finding more stuff for me to do , fingers crossed it happens this Friday so I can get caught up on life and get back to it .
 
Not yet still on the agenda , car was down last year and I had some health issues this summer but it's going to happen if ww3 doesnt kill us all eh !
 
The plus side to global warming is they are running freighters across the top of Russia and down through the Bering sea so I might be able to ship it from Vancouver when I go now , politics allowing of course .
 
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